Catalog / The Match! #104

The Match! #104 82 pages, full size, letter pressed, hand set type (5 oz) * OUT OF STOCK *

No question about it-- no one matches the independence, character, clear thought, and integrity of Fred Woodworth, editor of the long-running journal The Match! Since 1969, Fred has assembled this zine with hand set type and without the aid of computer desktop publishing "to criticize authoritarian society and religion in order to argue for the many human advantages of freedom and rationality."

This issue contains the regular features-- "Who the Police Beat," "Freedom Eclipsed," "The World's Longest Letters Column"-- as well as new revelations to keep us thinking. Noteworthy is an essay giving the real Lowdown on the Dalai Lama, fraud around banned books, and crackdowns on freedom. Always a dense, joyous read shedding light on virtually everything.

 
I have read several copies of the Match over the last several months and have some mixed feelings. Certainly Fred's unwavering resistance to fashionable leftism or "post anarchism" or whatever this stuff is being called, is commendable. But there are some things I could do without. His comments about technology are pretty strange at times, like his current obsession about cellular telephones, magnetic "amplifiers" the early twenieth battles over AC verus DC electricity, etc. He occasionally quotes questionable "new agish " sources or sometimes no sources at all which anyone knowledgeable about electronics could only react towards with despair. Still he is way ahead of the real crazies, Zerzan, Black and all the rest of the "rent a riot" types. The Match is worth reading and supporting .. with a few reservations. Werner
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