#title FE Bookstore
#author Fifth Estate Collective
#SORTauthors Fifth Estate Collective;
#date 1980
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/302-june-1-1980/fe-bookstore]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2018-12-16
#notes Fifth Estate #302, June 1, 1980
The FE Bookstore is located in the same place as the Fifth Estate and can be found at 4403 Second Ave., Detroit-telephone (313) 831–6800. The hours that we’re open vary quite a bit, so it’s always best that you give us a ring before coming down.
HOW TO ORDER BY MAIL
1) List the title of the book, quantity wanted, and price of each;
2) add 10% for mailing-not less than $.59 (which is the minimum fee for Book Rate postage;
3) Total;
4) Write all checks and Money Orders to: The Fifth Estate and mail to FE Books, 4403 Second Ave., Detroit MI 48201.
*** NOTICE OF REDUCED PRICES
We presently have fairly large quantities of the following books, which, despite their merits, have not fared well as commodities. Since they do no one any good sitting on our shelves, we have decided to offer them at extremely reduced prices.
Some of these were books which excited us or were part of the process of the advancement of our critique of — and opposition to — this society, and even though we may not agree With everything in each one of them today, the role they played in the development of our ideas is significant. We would like to see them get into people’s hands, so we are hoping that the low prices will induce people to buy them now.
The “sale” (gasp) works as follows: your order must total $2.50 minimum and must include postage. The $2.50 can be reached by sale books alone or combined with books priced normally. Every order sent out will include a free copy of the situationist classic The Poverty of Student Life for as long as our supply lasts.
ON PHOTOGRAPHY by Susan Sontag
Though at times this eclectic, perhaps photographic collection of observations suffers from the preciousness of pop criticism, many of its insights go to the core of the spectacular society. “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—and therefore, like power.” They “package the world...Newspapers and magazines feature them; cops alphabetize them; museums exhibit them; publishers compile them.” “Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change...”
Delta originally $3.95 now $1.00
TERROR OR LOVE by Bommi Baumann
This is the hardcover Grove Press edition of the translation originally published by Pulp Press. Tells the story of an urban guerrilla, with statements by novelist Heinrich Boll and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who wrote, “The fact that someone has the courage to say yes to love and no to hatred as the principal motivation for political action seems the essential statement in this book, a revolutionary one.”
originally $6.95 now $1.00
1984 by George Orwell
You probably read this for a high school class and have decided that there is no reason to reread it. Think again. This book remains as pertinent as ever, and its descriptions of life in a future totalitarian society read increasingly like life today not only in the state capitalist leviathans in the east but the decaying, miserabilist ambience here in the west.
Signet originally $1.50 now $.50
LUCY PARSONS: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY by Carolyn Ashbaugh
The Chicago police considered Lucy Parsons “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” and broke up her meetings for thirty years after the Haymarket Police Riot. “Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or knife and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out.”
Kerr, originally $3.95 now $1.00
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This classic work is the story of a nineteenth century woman’s nervous breakdown after struggling against the oppressive insanity of “normal” relations in this society. “She has tried, in defiance of all the social and medical codes of her time, to retainher sanity and her individuality. But the odds are against her and she fails.” One commentator called it a story “to freeze our blood.” (from the afterward)
Feminist Press originally $1.50 now $.50
PORTUGAL: THE IMPOSSIBLE REVOLUTION by’Phil Mailer
The story of the Portuguese upsurge of 1974–75, the eyewitness account of a deeply involved spectator. Not only an inspiring, even “surrealist” description of the revolutionary events, but also “a serious attempt to analyse the economic and cultural background of modern Portugal and to depict an overall pattern: the drift towards state capitalism. The challenge and limitations of self-management, and the recuperation of “popular power”...Two lessons fearlessly hammered home: the consequences of “the putschrist and militarist concept of the social revolution,” and the gradual realization that “the revolutionaries were part of the problem, not part of the solution.”
Solidarity, originally $5.00 now $2.50
TITLES BY WILHELM REICH:
We have both “mass market” size and quality paperbacks of the following titles by Wilhelm Reich: in mass market size:
THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM
originally $2.75 now $1.00
THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
originally $1.95 now $1.00
THE FUNCTION OF THE ORGASM
originally $1.95 now $1.00
THE MURDER OF CHRIST
originally $1.95 now $1.00
in quality paperback:
THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
originally $2.95 now $ 1.50
THE MURDER OF CHRIST
originally $2.95 now $1.50
CHARACTER ANALYSIS
originally $4.95 now $2.50
THE FUNCTION OF THE ORGASM
originally $3.95 now $2.00
THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM
originally $3.95 now $2.00
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
Another brilliant addition by Orwell to dystopian literature. The Animal Farm described could serve as an allegory for any political system, any office, any “new age” business collective, any political party. Describes the “friends of the people” and details where it all leads. “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
Signet, originally $1.25 now $.50