Eat the Rich and Other Interesting Ideas by Peter Werbe (signed)
Peter Werbe has been an important voice on the Detroit-based Fifth Estate magazine for decades. This selection of his essays from its pages explores some of the basic themes the publication addresses: anarchism, capitalism, technology, civilization, racism, patriarchy, politics, culture, music, the environment, his trips to Cuba, and other subjects that are explored in a manner that provide unique insights. He is the author of the Detroit based novel Summer on Fire.
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Title: Eat the Rich & Other Interesting Ideas
Author: Peter Werbe
Page count: 320
Dimensions: 5.5″X8″
Cover price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-948501-26-2
Published by Red and Black, Detroit
Cover and the interior design by Ralph Franklin.
Table of contents:
OPENERS
Escaping from Europe 7
James Baldwin 14
History of the Fifth Estate 19
What Does Fifth Estate Mean? 28
POLITICS
Selecting a Master 31
Republicans: Get Out of Town 37
Revenge of the Nerds 39
Burn All Flags 48
Getting Back to Zero 49
Clinton: Greater Danger to Peace 54
The 2020 Election 57
CULTURE
Will Marijuana Save World Capitalism 65
Surreal Life 72
The Vegetarian Myth 75
Looking at Animals 81
Getting Off the Road 88
R-E-V-O-L-T 92
What a Day It Wasn’t 98
RELIGION
Christ’s Body Found: Easter Cancelled 105
Has George Bush Doomed Christianity? 109
Godless 112
TECHNOLOGY
We Get a Computer and Hate It! 119
TV? Turn It Off! 127
DIRECT ACTION
Occupy Confronts the Power of Money 137
Recycling and Liberal Reform 145
In Defense of Self-Defense 156
Anarchists & Guns 160
Anarchist Violence or State Violence 166
Fifth Estate A-Gassed 171
MUSIC
No Dance; No Revo 177
Dancing for Our Lives 179
Will Success Spoil Chumbawamba 182
WAR
All Wars are Lies 191
Hiroshima: First Shot of World War III 201
Wartime Wildcats 205
The Empire Exists Iraq 210
WILHELM REICH
Sexual Repression & Authoritarianism 219
Sex Economy 226
CAPITALISM
Confronting Poverty and the Poor 233
World-Wide Crisis 237
I’m Sticking with the Union 243
Coffee Keeps Us Rolling 253
Marxism: Obscuring More Than It Reveals 258
Isn’t All Money Fake? 263
ON THE ROAD
An Anarchist in Cuba 267
Cuba: From State to Private Capitalism 279
An Anarchist at the World Social Forum 289
FINAL WORDS
Interview with Peter Werbe 300
Eat the Rich 303
Peter Werbe is a long-time figure in alternative and commercial media in Detroit, and a political activist. He is a member of the editorial board of the Fifth Estate magazine. His professional career was as a DJ on Detroit’s major rock stations, WABX, WWWW. WRIF, and WCSX. He hosted Nightcall, WRIF’s phone-in talk show, that was the longest running such program in U.S. radio history, 1970-2016
He is the author of Summer On Fire: A Detroit Novel.
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