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Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!

by Fredy Perlman · 1983

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His major work, a vast study of the rise of totalitarian lifestyles and a profound affirmation of the struggle to reassert human values. One of the most significant and influential anarchic texts of the last few decades.

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revolutionrevolutionMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 302 pages

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