by William Powell
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by Abbie Hoffman
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by CrimethInc. Workers' Collective
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by Tom Wolfe
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by Kyle Bravo
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Excerpt: Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. It preaches jailbreak. It shows you where exactly how to place the dynamite that will destroy the walls. The first section--SURVIVE!--lays out a potential action program for our new Nation. The chapter headings spell out the demands for a free society. A community where the technology produces goods and services for whoever needs them, come who may. It calls on the Robin Hoods of Santa Barbara Forest to steal from the robber barons who own the castles of capitalism. It implies that the reader already is ideologically set, in that he understands corporate feudalism as the only robbery worthy of being called crime, for it is committed against the people as a whole. Whether the ways it describes to rip-off shit are legal or illegal is irrelevant. The dictionary of law is written by the bosses of order. Our moral dictionary says no heisting from each other. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman’s puckish tone and became a cult classic with over 200,000 copies sold. Outrageously illustrated by R. Crumb, it nevertheless conveys a serious message to all would-be revolutionaries: You don’t have to take it anymore. "All Power to the Imagination was his credo. Abbie was the best." — Studs Terkel
Excerpt: Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. It preaches jailbreak. It shows you where exactly how to place the dynamite that will destroy the walls. The first section--SURVIVE!--lays out a potential action program for our new Nation. The chapter headings spell out the demands for a free society. A community where the technology produces goods and services for whoever needs them, come who may. It calls on the Robin Hoods of Santa Barbara Forest to steal from the robber barons who own the castles of capitalism. It implies that the reader already is ideologically set, in that he understands corporate feudalism as the only robbery worthy of being called crime, for it is committed against the people as a whole. Whether the ways it describes to rip-off shit are legal or illegal is irrelevant. The dictionary of law is written by the bosses of order. Our moral dictionary says no heisting from each other. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman’s puckish tone and became a cult classic with over 200,000 copies sold. Outrageously illustrated by R. Crumb, it nevertheless conveys a serious message to all would-be revolutionaries: You don’t have to take it anymore. "All Power to the Imagination was his credo. Abbie was the best." — Studs Terkel
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"In a country such as Amerika, there is bound to be a hell-of-a-lot of food lying around just waiting to be ripped off." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, San Francisco, National Park, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Government Printing Office, National Forest, New Mexico, Santa Cruz, Village Station, Yellow Pages, Ann Arbor, Department of the Interior, Fifth Ave, Pig Empire, Southeast Asia New!
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"In a country such as Amerika, there is bound to be a hell-of-a-lot of food lying around just waiting to be ripped off." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, San Francisco, National Park, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Government Printing Office, National Forest, New Mexico, Santa Cruz, Village Station, Yellow Pages, Ann Arbor, Department of the Interior, Fifth Ave, Pig Empire, Southeast Asia New!
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- For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman by Jonah Raskin on 6 pages
- Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture by Susan Squier on page 16, page 32, and page 33
- Liberty at Risk by Gary DeMar on page 184, page 185, and page 190
- Rock Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia by John Strausbaugh on page 85, and Back Matter
- Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer on page 262, and Back Matter
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