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RealGravitas

@Impossible_PhD I also recommend reading “Steal this book” by Abby Hoffman. It’s got some amazing ideas, and even though it was written a while back (Nixon’s time) it’s got a lot of applications today.

8 November at 3:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on sfba.social
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Rosalyn Gardencourt 🏳️‍⚧️

@CWilbur @Impossible_PhD even older but not without its charms is the simple sabotage field manual [1] which has a lot of fun & plausibly deniable ideas for how to slow the gears of a large machine of which you have no choice but to be a part

[1] archive.org/details/SimpleSabo

8 November at 6:01 | Open on tech.lgbt
Levka

@CWilbur @Impossible_PhD

*Steal this book* is not by "by" Abbie Hoffman. It's by Emmett Grogan. Abbie stole the manuscript from him. Emmett describes this in *Ringolevio*, a much better book.

8 November at 7:05 | Open on kolektiva.social
RealGravitas
Levka

@CWilbur @Impossible_PhD

Many people do not. I knew Abbie personally. He was a relentless self-promoter, plagiarist, and manipulator. He set out to build a cult of personality and he succeeded. Cults of personality are counter-revolutionary. This is why anarchists rejected Platformism back in the day. They feared Makhno becoming a new Bonaparte. Dylan said it best, "Don't follow leaders . . ."

8 November at 18:10 | Open on kolektiva.social
RealGravitas

@LevZadov @Impossible_PhD Still, the information within the book could be useful.
I would never suggest following Hoffman himself ( dead or not). 😸

8 November at 18:22 | Open on sfba.social
Levka

@CWilbur @Impossible_PhD

*Some* of the information could be useful. A lot of it is outdated or was not useful even then.

Have you checked out this yet?

archive.org/details/usa-tm-31-

It'll come in handy if the struggle becomes mass violence. If the struggle becomes mass violence, we've failed, but that's no reason not to survive, or to take a bunch of fash with us when we die. But better still would be if what ever we did to resist worked before the struggle becomes mass violence.

#CivilWar2 wouldn't be fought between states or regions. It would be fought between neighbors. It would be a bloodbath. It would also be America's national suicide. The world would pick our bones and we'd deserve it. A lot of people think we deserve it already.

@CWilbur @Impossible_PhD

*Some* of the information could be useful. A lot of it is outdated or was not useful even then.

Have you checked out this yet?

archive.org/details/usa-tm-31-

It'll come in handy if the struggle becomes mass violence. If the struggle becomes mass violence, we've failed, but that's no reason not to survive, or to take a bunch of fash with us when we die. But better still would be if what ever we did to resist worked before the struggle...

8 November at 18:42 | Open on kolektiva.social
RealGravitas

@Impossible_PhD Another good book to bone up on is The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abby. It’s fiction, but it was taken as a blueprint for Earth First! ecoterrorist group.

8 November at 16:39 | Open on sfba.social
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