Fredy Perlman
Libertarian Marxist turned primitivist who, while still a Marxist, made some highly important contributions to working class theory and history.
Fredy Perlman's views on the Situationists' membership criteria
Perlman's reaction to his former friends' 'break' with him; an attempt to prove their ideological conformity as a necessary condition of entrance into the Situationist International.
...Militants from Europe also visited us in Kalamazoo. One of them, Roger Gregoire, stayed with us for several months, working with Fredy on an account and evaluation of experiences the two had shared in May and June 1968 while members of the Citroen Worker-Student Action Committee.
Ozimandias - Review: Against His-story! Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman - Wildcat (UK)
Review: Against His-story! Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman, Black & Red, Detroit 1983.
Against His-story! is an attempt to take opposition to Progress to its logical conclusion. So is this belated review.
Perlman summarises the whole history of Civilisation from the viewpoint of its victims: we, the "zeks", free people who were enslaved then taught to identify with the enslaving monster: Leviathan.
OZYMANDIAS
ROCK OF STAGES
The Fetish Speaks! - Marx and Perlman
Marx spoke of the commodity - now the commodity speaks of Marx (and itself). PDF of illustrated quotations from 'Capital'.
First printed in Black & Red No. 5 January 1969. Reprinted as a fold-out concertina leaflet by Black & Red, Detroit, 1973.
Commodity Fetishism - Fredy Perlman
Fredy Perlman's 1968 Introduction to I.I. Rubin's "Essays on Marx's Theory of Value", Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1973.
The text of Rubin's book can found online here; http://www.marxists.org/archive/rubin/value/index.htm
The reproduction of daily life - Fredy Perlman - Treason pamphlet
Fredy Perlman's pamphlet of working class economics, as compiled by Treason Press, February 2004.
Originally published 1969
A better formatted version of this text can be found here: http://libcom.org/library/reproduction-everyday-life-fredy-perlman
Worker-Student Action Committees, France May '68 - Roger Gregoire and Fredy Perlman
An in-depth look at the worker-student action committees of France May '68
Taken from the excellent John Gray site - http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/
Worker-Student Action Committees, France May '68 - Roger Gregoire and Fredy Perlman
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism - Fredy Perlman
An excellent analysis by the late Fredy Perlman of the enduring appeal of nationalism to statist rulers of both left and right.
This essay originally appeared in the Winter, 1984 Fifth Estate, and is also available as a pamphlet published by Black & Red.
Progress & Nuclear Power - Fredy Perlman
The Following text first appeared in a special anti-nuclear issue of Fifth Estate magazine on April 8, 1979. It was written earlier in that year just after an accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in eastern Pennsylavania. As news of the accident spread, official messages insisted, "There is no need to overreact, the situation is stable, the leaders have everything under control," but eventually people living near the plant had to be evacuated. Here Fredy reminds us how the original inhabitants of this region were duped and destroyed by the platitudes, promises and police that always accompany Capital.
The Reproduction of Everyday Life - Fredy Perlman
Fredy Perlman's analysis of alienation and the reproduction of the economy in daily life.
The everyday practical activity of tribesmen reproduces, or perpetuates, a tribe. This reproduction is not merely physical, but social as well. Through their daily activities the tribesmen do not merely reproduce a group of human beings; they reproduce a tribe, namely a particular social form within which this group of human beings performs specific activities in a specific manner.
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom - Fredy Perlman
Drawing on his personal experiences and family history, Perlman dissects the disturbing irony in the use of the Holocaust as justification for Zionist state brutality.
