Editing Fredy Perlman (section)

== Career ==

His best-known work,<ref>{{Cite book |editor1-last=Purkis |editor1-first=Jonathan |editor2-last=Bowen |editor2-first=James |title=Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-7190-6694-8 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |page=237 }}</ref> ''Against His-Story, Against Leviathan'' (1983) rewrites the history of humanity as a struggle of free people resisting being turned into "zeks" (a Soviet term for forced labour that Perlman borrowed from [[The Gulag Archipelago]]) by [[Leviathan (Hobbes book)|Leviathans]] (a term used by [[Thomas Hobbes]] for the sovereign nation-state).<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Marcus |first1=Daniel |title=Information War |work=[[Artforum]] |volume=58 |issue=8 |date=April 2020 |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202004/daniel-marcus-on-danielle-aubert-s-detroit-printing-co-op-82449 |language=en-US |issn=0004-3532 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The book influenced the anarcho-primitivist author [[John Zerzan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Purkis |first=Jonathan |chapter=Anarchy Unbound: A Tribute to John Moore |page=6 |editor1-last=Moore |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Sunshine |editor2-first=Spencer |title=I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite! Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition |date=2004 |language=en |isbn=978-1-57027-121-2 |publisher=Autonomedia |location=New York |oclc=249155584 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Philosopher John P. Clark states that ''Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!'' describes Perlman's critique of what he saw as "the millennia-long history of the assault of the technological megamachine on humanity and the Earth." Clark also notes the book discusses "anarchistic spiritual movements" such as the [[Yellow Turban Rebellion|Yellow Turban]] movement in ancient China and the [[Brethren of the Free Spirit]] in medieval Europe.<ref>John P. Clark,
"Anarchism" in ''Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature'', edited by [[Bron Taylor]]; New York : Continuum, 2008, pp.49–56. {{ISBN|978-1-84706-273-4}}</ref>