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Fredy perlman was a czechborn, naturalized american author, publisher, professor, and activist. An important book even many years after its release. The 1983 tome is my favorite book ever written and will be yours too. Fredy perlman 193485 fredy perlman was one of the most influential postleft writers and thinkers of the 20th century. Fredy perlman, one of the founders of the periodical and subsequently the publishing house black and red. Excerpt from against hisstory, against leviathan by fredy. Understanding our present world as a leviathan and the history weve been forcefed as a patriarchal whitewash perlman renames hisstory is essential for setting the record straight and perlman does that here. An essay fredy perlman 1983 2 contents 1 5 2 17 3 31 4 47 5 59 6 69 7 75 8 81 9 91 10 101. The book remains a major source of inspiration for anticivilisation perspectives in contemporary anarchism.
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