An Anarchist’s Guide to Weyerhaeuser
by thecollective
Feb 25, 2026
From The Transmetropolitan Review
Back in 1908, an anarchist named Aristide Pratelle wrote an article titled ‘The King of the Forest’ for the French anarchist newspaper Les Temps Nouveaux, detailing the crimes of the Weyserhaeuser lumber company in the United States. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Aristide saw the Weyerhaeuser lumber company for the leviathan it was. At a time when most of the US public knew about the crimes of JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller, the ecocide of Friedrich Weyerhäuser went largely unnoticed, and after devastating the ancient forests of the Midwest, his company began to devour the Pacific Northwest.