a review of Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections, edited by John Zerzan. Uncivilized Books, Eugene, Ore., 1999, 214 pp., $10 (available from FE Books)
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Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 347, Spring, 1996
BI ANY OTHER NAME: BISEXUAL PEOPLE SPEAK OUT edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu Rejected by both Gay and Straight worlds, bisexuals have been a community in exile. With this rich and varied collection, however, bisexual women and men …
Letters
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 403, Spring 2019
Send letters to fe – AT – fifthestate – DOT – org or Fifth Estate, POB 201016, Ferndale MI 48220 All formats accepted including typescript & handwritten. Letters may be edited for length. TAKING A RISK As always, thank you …
Events Calendar
by Resa Jannett
Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970
in Cooperation with Detroit Adventure THURSDAY, MAY 28 ROMAN POLANSKI’S “Fearless Vampire Killers” with Sharon Tate in color, and f.w. Murnau’s “Nosferatu,” loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Two bloody chiller killers. There is a $1 donation to go to …
Events Calendar
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 55, June 4-18, 1968
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 RASHOMON, Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece at the Studio 1 Theater, Livemois at Davison at 7:30 & 9:30 pm. Adm. $2. YOGA CLASSES at the International Institute at 7:30 pm. Call 675-1038 for information. THURSDAY, JUNE 6 REPUBLICAN GALA …
Paradigms
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 394, Summer 2015 - Technology
To many, it seems there will be no escape from the dominant reality, no alternative to an irredeemably darkened modernity as civilization’s final, lasting mode. We are indeed currently trapped, and the nature of our imprisonment is not subject to …
Space: Not the Place—2
by Gus Grissom
Fifth Estate # 323, Summer, 1986
In the last issue of the FE we noted that people should sigh with relief at the explosion of the space shuttle because of its direct relation to the Star Wars program. As General Lew Allen, Air Force Chief of …
Ammunition Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 293-294, August 21, 1978
Ammunition Books shares space with the Fifth Estate Newspaper (?) [sic] and can be found at 4403 Second Ave, (telephone (313) 831-6800. Our hours vary quite a bit, so it’s always best to give us a telephone call before coming …
Off Center
by Sol Plafkin
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Let me predict this: Jerry Cavanagh is definitely on the way out! It may not come as a result of the current recall movement, but it will happen soon.
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 266, September, 1975
Sorry to be so late with this issue, but the FE staff had a lot of its time and energy sapped by Michigan Bell’s efforts to prosecute us out of existence. (See story elsewhere in this issue.)
Can a computer virus create anarchy?
by Sunfrog (Andy "Sunfrog" Smith)
Fifth Estate # 342, Summer 1993
“You could say that cyberpunk is intrinsically anarchistic. It’s endlessly anti-authoritarian, and it can be employed like a weapon, like a computer virus, injecting new information by means of the existing mechanisms. The pop image of anarchism has always been …
Zapping the Pyramid
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
The design shows a pyramid surmounted by an eye being blasted by a bolt of lightning. Bannered beneath the collapsing pyramid is the motto, “NON SERVIAM.”
Class Clash
by Mike Kerman
Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969
a review of the Rolling Stones, “The Beggars’ Banquet” (London) the Beatles, “The Beatles” (Apple) The Beatles and Rolling Stones albums have been out for a couple of months now and we have a clearer perspective on what these, the …
The Coatpuller
by John Sinclair
Fifth Estate # 19, December 1-15, 1966
Progress Report: The first reorganizational meeting of the Artists’ Workshop Society took place as scheduled on November 22, with encouraging results. That is to say, enough people expressed working interest in continuing the work of the Society that the Artists’ …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Unclassifieds
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 62, Sept. 19-Oct. 2, 1968
UNCLASSIFIEDS cost 50 cents per line per issue. Figure four words per line. (A word is a word including one and two letter words. A phone number is a word. Street numbers are words. Abbreviations should be sensible. DISCOUNT RATES: …
Rock and Jazz
by Frank Kofsky
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
Talk to almost any parent with “teen aged” children and you can hear the same litany endlessly chanted: rock is tasteless (American society being so notable for its good taste!), rock is loud, the only thing that counts is the …
Anarchists gather everywhere
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 365, Summer, 2004
This Spring saw many anarchist gatherings and book fairs. For the second consecutive year, Fifth Estate had a table at the mother of all anarchist book fairs organized by the Bound Together collective in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. In …
San Francisco GIs March
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 65, October 31-November 13, 1968
from LNS and the Guardian SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 — Over 10,000 marchers turned out on a drizzly, overcast morning to show their solidarity with the largest anti-war march ever organized by active-duty GIs and veterans.
Campaign ’66
by Frank Joyce
Fifth Estate # 12, August 15, 1966
The August second primary was almost enough to send one to the political physicists with their slide rules and computers to find out what happened. Why was it such a disaster?
Death & the Zeitgeist
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
We are in mass society’s Age of Pandemics. At this stage of civilization nothing is stable or secure. The Age of Pandemics is also the Age of Extinction, as in no longer existing. Death as an existential, ontological matter. Nursing …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 350, Fall, 1997
Forget those L.L. Bean and Harry & David catalogs! When you’re picking out presents for the holidays, send revolutionary literature as gifts and help support independent publishers and booksellers. If you want a wider selection of anti-authoritarian titles, contact Left …
The Cinephile
by Shirley Hamburg
Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967
A Man For All Seasons may not be a play for all seasons, but it certainly is a godsend in this particularly impoverished one. A good deal has been written elsewhere about this commendable but somewhat less than considerable play.
HipPocrates
by Eugene Schoenfeld M.D.
Fifth Estate # 70, January 9-22, 1969
Things You Like Dear Dr. Schoenfeld, Here’s a reply to the reader of your column in OZ (the English underground monthly) who wanted information about circumcision. I was circumcised as an adult, at the age of 24, some 14 …
Is Destruction of Private Property Violence?
by Acme Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
On November 30, several groups of individuals in black bloc attacked various corporate targets in downtown Seattle. Among them were (to name just a few):
Anti-Authoritarian Personalities & Standard Schools
by Bruce E. Levine
Fifth Estate # 388, Winter, 2013
Mark Twain, one of America’s most beloved anti-authoritarians, gave young people sound advice: “Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.”
Detroit Seen
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Welcome to our Spring 2000 issue. The last one we published was dated Summer 1999, so subscribers and libraries, please take note; you haven’t missed any intervening papers. This edition is numbered 354, the previous one, 353, so we are …
Fifth Estate Books
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 354, Spring, 2000
Fifth Estate Books is located at 4632 Second Avenue, just south of W. Forest, in Detroit, in the same space as the Fifth Estate newspaper. Hours vary, so please call before visiting.
Financial Advice for the Working Class: Unemployment
by John Hardin
Fifth Estate # 387, Summer, 2012
You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about unemployment. The national unemployment rate hovers at about 8.3 percent, although experts agree that the number of people outof-work far exceeds that figure.
They once were rebels
by Bill Weinberg
Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024
a review of Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century by Raoul Vaneigem, translation by Bill Brown. ERIS, 2023 While evangelical Protestantism has for generations overwhelmingly been a force of deep reaction …
Giving up the gun fetish
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
When small political groupings of people raise the possession of weapons to the level of military strategies and tactics, rather than the need for protecting their personal security, it usually guarantees the reverse.
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
In 1964, when almost everyone in Greenwich Village was playing an acoustic guitar and singing “folk, there was a red-haired ex-Marine named Tim Hardin who was using an electric guitar and sang a sort of jazz flavored blues. Before Hardin …
The FCC is Watching You
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), prompted by a 58-year-old commissioner who is a former FBI agent, issued a policy statement on March 6 warning radio stations against broadcasting song lyrics “tending to promote or glorify the use of illegal drugs.”
Larry Miller
by Larry Miller
Fifth Estate # 14, September 15, 1966
There are some records around that are worth taking a look at…The Sunshine Superman album by Donovan is one of the best records of its kind ever done. On this record, we hear great writing, good tunes, excellent musicianship, and …
FE Bookstore
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
The FE Bookservice may be reached at the same address as the Fifth Estate Newspaper, P.O. Box 02548, Detroit MI 48202 USA, telephone (313) 831-6800. Visitors are welcome, but our hours vary so please call before dropping in.
News & Reviews
by Allan Antliff, David Watson, Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 352, Winter, 1999
In his foreword to Clifford Harper’s Designs for Anarchist Postage Stamps: Postage Stamps for After the Revolution, Colin Ward reminds us that some public institutions are worth saving. No radical activist could deny the immense importance of sending and receiving …
Books from the Barn
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
NEW Gothick Institutions by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Xexoxial 2005) $10 (see the review on page 38) Garden Planet by William Kotke (AuthorHouse 2005) $11 (see the reprint on page 33)
If a Cluster Bomb could Talk
by Norman Solomon
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
< Kosovo: The Empire at War Hi! My name is CBU-871B, but let’s not be formal. A lot of my friends call me Cluster Bomb. I’ve been busy lately, doing what I’m supposed to. And, I sure appreciate the careful …