Fredy Perlman passed away on July 26, 1985. This — entwining timelines of beasts of war-wonder and woeful, slouched hunger (named: Leviathan and Octopus, respectively, unrespectfully) — is his last work and lasting testament to freedom’s reach.

Freedom is in reach of all who flushly live, if only they inscribe their lives with seeing songs and dance. Fredy saw: and danced sight into these ghosts of prose and poetry, and passage-ways of formless guile.

Read his passages with red applause! …and weep.

Contents

1. Title Page.
2. Foreword.
3. Chapters.
   1. Healthy Human Communities.
   2. Morgan's Progress.
   3. Artificial Man. ^{Ur, Sumeria.}
   4. Armed Opposition. ^Egpyt.
   5. Octopi Proliferate. ^Israel.
   6. Octopi & Worms. ^{Assyria, Phoenicia, Chaldea.}
   7. Rise and Fall of Persia.
   8. Rise and Fall of Greece.
   9. Rise of Rome.
   10. Lethargy of Rome. ^{Isis, Mithras, Jesus.}
   11. Fall of Rome. ^{Mani, Gnostics, Yellow Turbans.}
   12. Byzantium. ^{Donatists, Vandals, Italians.}
   13. Muhammad. ^{Arabs, Turks, Mongols.}
   14. Western Spirit. ^{Vicar of Christ.}
   15. The Catholic Empire. ^{Franks, Priests, Vikings.}
   16. The Crusading West. ^{Capitalism, Islam, Agriculture.}
   17. World-eating. ^{Albigensians, Hanseans, Teutonic Knights.}
   18. Original Sin. ^{Inquisitors, Waldensians, Beguines.}
   19. Plague & Prison. ^Taborites.
   20. Enlightenment. ^{Guanches, Witches, Humanists.}
   21. Time Is a Circle. ^{Potawatomi, Wiske, Maya, Quetzaquatal.}
   22. Time Is a Line. ^{The Fortunate Isles.}
   23. Last Leviathan. ^{The Great Lakes, Renegades, Merry Mount, Puritans, Quakers.}
   24. ...The End? ^{Illuminati, Ghost Dancers.}

Sources

"Werebrock" (or “Shadowcrew,” is it?) posted the first digital transcription of Against His-story, Against Leviathan! as 24 blog entries of plaintext HTML.

Bagatella Gambadé copied that copywork, pasted several quotations into it, and posted the second digital transcription of Against His-story, Against Leviathan! as one aggregate webpage of (nicely) fontified HTML.

Brian Curry cemented the sprawling bits and word-pieces of these copies into the final digital transcription you find, above, of cross-wiki portable Wiki Creole markup. (Thanks be to the various players, here; it was a frothy, ol’ game!)

Copyright

Fredy Perlman passed away, into those argent tides, on July 26, 1985. Given his stature and stallwart nature as a self-avowed, unselfishly other-empowering anti-capitalist, this digital transcription of Against His-story, Against Leviathan! presumes his estate and late publishing house, Black & Red, will not pursue their copyright for capital. If, nevertheless (and nevermind that black irony), you are that copyright holder (and hold a yen for yen and gritty, grubbing dollars), contact the site maintainer to have these pages excised. (Alternatively, as this is a collaborative wiki, edit these pages yourself — to excise these pages, yourself.)

Domestic law (U.S.; specifically, the Copyright Act of 1976) does suggest this transcription complies with “all four factors of analysis for ‘fair use’ of a copyrighted work.” In particular:

1. The purpose and character of this use is for non-profit, (purely) educational purposes.
2. The nature of the copyrighted work is (purely) contra copyright and intellectual “property.”
3. These pages are not a perfect reproduction of that work. (They do not, for example, reprint the William Blake wood engravings originally printed within that work.)
4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for the copyrighted work is (purely) beneficial, as demonstrated by non-profit digitization of other for-profit works (e.g., Bruce Eckel’s profitable digitization of his books, Peter Watt’s profitable digitization of his, et al.).

And, most significantly, this reification of Fredy’s work adds substantial value to that work by virtue of its wiki virtuosities: citations, cross-references, translations, and a (modestly) complete bibliography.