Fredy Perlman’s Chronicle of the World Changers
From Fifth Estate # 417, Winter 2025
Forty years after his untimely death in 1985, Fredy Perlman’s last work has been published, a second volume of his novel, The Strait, which he left in handwritten form.
In 1986, the anarchist activist/historian (and FE contributor) David Porter commented in the journal Kairos... “Fredy’s special talent was to demonstrate the variety of its political forms,” a dialectic he described in his essays and books, in which “accumulation of unequal power leads to the privilege of a few and the degradation of the others.” Moreover, resisting tended to produce its own feedback “Every major step toward apparent liberation produces further domination…”