It begins to scratch the potential for a national effort in this area. Section three - LIBERATE! - concerns itself with efforts to free stuff (or at least make it cheap) in four cities. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. Make war on machines, and in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. With your fingers probe the holiness of your body and see that it was meant to live. Revolution is not about suicide, it is about life. When we see the Army Mathematics Research and Development Center and the Bank of Amerika as cesspools of violence, filling the minds of our young with hatred, turning one against another, then we begin to think revolutionary.īe clever using section two clever as a snake. When we conclude that bank robbers rather than bankers should be the trustees of the universities, then we begin to think clearly. Until we understand the nature of institutional violence and how it manipulates values and mores to maintain the power of the few, we will forever be imprisoned in the caves of ignorance. The Indians should have offed Jimmy Stewart in every picture and we should have cheered ourselves hoarse. "Take your people and go in peace." Cochise as well as millions of youngsters in the balcony of learning, were being dealt off the bottom of the deck. "You will find good grazing land on the other side of the mountain," drawls the public relations man. Jimmy Stewart, the epitome of fairness, puts his arm around Cochise and tells how the Indians and the whites can live in peace if only both sides will be reasonable, responsible and rational (the three R's imperialists always teach the "natives"). For years we watched movie after movie that demonstrated the white man's benevolence. Amerika was built on the slaughter of a people. If we internalize the language and imagery of the pigs, we will forever be fucked. Slumlords allow rats to maim children and then complain of violence in the streets. A modern, highly mechanized army travels 9,000 miles to commit genocide against a small nation of great vision and then accuses its people of aggression. Students are gunned down and then indicted by suburban grand juries as the trouble-makers. Politicians conspire to create police riots and the victims are convicted in the courts. Inflated prices guarantee large profits while shoplifters are punished. False advertisements win awards, forgers end up in jail. Murder in a uniform is heroic, in a costume it is a crime. But again, the dictionary of law fails us. Here the uptown reviewer will find ample proof of our "violent" nature. They are "home-made," in that they are designed for use in our unique electronic jungle. The purpose of part two is not to fuck the system, but destroy it. FIGHT! separates revolutionaries from outlaws. We cannot survive without learning to fight and that is the lesson in the second section. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.Ĭommunity within our Nation, chaos in theirs that is the message of SURVIVE! To steal from a brother or sister is evil. Our moral dictionary says no heisting from each other. The dictionary of law is written by the bosses of order. Whether the ways it describes to rip-off shit are legal or illegal is irrelevant. ![]() ![]() 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. It calls on the Robin Hoods of Santa Barbara Forest to steal from the robber barons who own the castles of capitalism. A community where the technology produces goods and services for whoever needs them, come who may. ![]() The chapter headings spell out the demands for a free society. The first section-SURVIVE!-lays out a potential action program for our new Nation. It shows you where exactly how to place the dynamite that will destroy the walls. Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. Here too, you learn the only rehabilitation possible-hatred of oppression. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks. It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail- that graduate school of survival.
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