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After reading your TOTW, I'm reminded of "Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman’s Fifty Years" by Lorraine Perlman where she writes of how Fredy conveyed the story of the world changers in the essay "Against His-story, Against Leviathan!".

"Where His-story exults in civic and military achievements, calling them Progress, Fredy’s story views each consolidation of state power as an encroachment on the human community. He addresses the reader as one individual speaking to another and makes no claim to follow scholarly rules: “I take it for granted that resistance is the natural human response to dehumanization and, therefore, does not have to be explained or justified” (page 184). The resistance story follows the chronology of Leviathan’s destructive march, but avoids using His-storians’ conventions of dating the events. This, as well as the poetic visionary language, gives the work an epic quality." - Lorraine

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorraine-perlman-having-little-b...