On the far-left fringes of the far left is the Fifth Estate. Starting out in Detroit as one of the seminal underground papers of the
’60s, FE evolved into a unique radical publication defying any easy label. Suspicious of any "ism,” despairing of the bitter fruits of industrial civilization, and with grave misgivings about the role of words and numbers themselves in warping human consciousness, FE publishes brilliant, if wordy(!), critiques of nearly everything.