Английская Википедия:Fredy Perlman

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Fredy Perlman (1934–1985) was an American author, publisher, and activist. His best-known work, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, retells the historical rise of state domination through the Hobbesian metaphor of the Leviathan.

Early life

Perlman was born August 20, 1934, in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to Henry and Martha Perlman. His family immigrated first to Cochabamba, Bolivia to escape the Holocaust and later to the United States. Perlman received a master's degree from Columbia University and a PhD from University of Belgrade. He married Lorraine Nybakken in January 1958.

Career

His best-known work, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan (1983) rewrites the history of humanity as a struggle of free people ("zeks") resisting the sovereign nation-state (Leviathan). The book influenced the anarcho-primitivist author John Zerzan. Philosopher John P. Clark states that Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! describes Perlman's critique of what he saw as "the millennia-long history of the assault of the technological megamachine on humanity and the Earth." Clark also notes the book discusses "anarchistic spiritual movements" such as the Yellow Turban movement in ancient China and the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe.

Death

Perlman died on July 26, 1985, while undergoing heart surgery in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. He was survived by his wife and a brother.

Selected publications

• Шаблон:Citation
• "Essay on Commodity Fetishism". Telos 6 (Fall 1970). New York: Telos Press.
• "The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism"
  • Sound recording
• "The Reproduction of Daily Life"
• Against His-story! Against Leviathan!
• Worker-Student Action Committees, France May '68 with Roger Gregoire
• Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
• Manual for Revolutionary Leaders Second Edition Including The Sources of Velli's Thoughts (Black & Red, Detroit, 1974)
• "Ten Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats"
• "Obituary for Paul Baran"
• "The Machine Against the Garden: Two Essays on American Literature and Culture"
• "Chicago, 1968"
• "Anything can happen"
• Illyria Street Commune 1979 (AudioPlay)
• Illyria Street Commune 1979 (Playscript on The Anarchist Library)

See also

• Original Affluent Society
• Situationist International
• David Watson (anarchist)
• John Zerzan

Further reading

• Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlmans Fifty Years by Lorraine Perlman
• Max Cafard, "The Dragons of Brno: Fredy Perlman against History's Leviathan". Fifth Estate #347, Spring, 1996 Review of Fredy Perlman, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan
• l'Insécurité sociale, "No Compromise with Nationalism". Fifth Estate #325, Spring 1987. Translation of the introduction to the French edition of Fredy Perlman's The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
• Artnoose, "Love & Letters of Insurgents". Fifth Estate #392, Fall/Winter, 2014 Review of Letters of Insurgents by Sophia Nachalo and Yarostan Vocheck, as told by Fredy Perlman
• Unruhlee, "Reading Letters of Insurgents 34 Years After its Publication". Fifth Estate #383 Summer 2010
• Carleton S. Gholz, "Fifth at 40 Detroit radical rag celebrates its ruby anniversary". Detroit Metro Times, August 10, 2005 Шаблон:Webarchive Includes discussion of Fredy Perlman's contribution to Fifth Estate newspaper's history
• The Detroit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert.
• Шаблон:Cite journal
• Шаблон:Cite book

External links

• Black and Red Books, the press founded by the Perlmans
• Fredy Perlman texts at Libcom
• Fredy Perlman texts at Spunk Library
• Fredy Perlman texts at The Anarchist Library