Steal This Book

    Yippies

      Media from the 60s & 70s

      Retrospective Analysis

    The 60s

      Outlaws

      Cults

    Street Theatre Comedians

    Revolutionaries

      Situationists

    Campaign Organising

      Community Organising

      Unions & Worker Co-ops

      Direct Action

    Political Philosophy

      Anarchism

      Acid Communism

    Yippie Inspired Fiction

Steal This Book


Steal This Book (1st Edition)

Written by Abbie Hoffman in 1971.


Steal This Book (2nd Edition)

Published in 2007.


Steal This Book (3rd Edition)

Published in 2011.


Steal This Book (4th Edition)

Minorly edited for this website in 2023. Hopefully to be updated a lot more.


Steal This Survival Book (4th Edition)

Published in 2023.


The History of Steal This Wiki

A history of the project so far.


Yippies

Media from the 60s & 70s


Chicago 1968

An anarchist journal describing the anti-war demonstrations in Chicago.


Yippie Manifesto

A press release from the time.


Abbie Hoffman Interview

Yippie co-founder and activist Abbie Hoffman interviewed just days before the commencement of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.


The Black Flag of Anarchism

An analysis of the student uprisings against the war and a brief critique of yippies.


The Hippies

Hunter S. Thompsons's analysis of how hippies came about.


Retrospective Analysis


Abbie Hoffman, Orphan Of America

A podcast episode analysis of Abbie Hoffman's life.


Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

Abbie's autobiography.


Yippies

A wiki article on the yippies.


Steal This Dream

In the tradition of Edie, the oral biography of Edie Sedgwick, Steal This Dream is a captivating roller-coaster ride of an oral biography of Abbie Hoffman and the sixties, told by over two hundred of those who demonstrated, protested, and lived through those tumultuous years.


Run Run Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman

Intertwining the details of Abbie Hoffman's intense personal life with the movement politics of the sixties, seventies, and eighties, Dan Simon writes Abbie's story from the point of view of his younger brother Jack, creating a full and poignant portrait of one of the geniuses of the 1960s counterculture. From the creation of the Yippies in 1967 and the tumult of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, to the humor and agony of the Chicago conspiracy trial, the scandal of Abbie's 1973 cocaine bust, and his six and a half years as a fugitive, to his reemergence as environmentalist "Barrie Freed" and his final struggle with manic-depressive illness, this biography offers a thorough examination of the contradictions that make Abbie Hoffman such a compelling figure. With the information and affection only a brother could bring to the complexities of Abbie's life, Hoffman and Simon portray Abbie's public persona alongside his private aspirations and fears, romances, and enduring family relationships.


The 60s

Outlaws


The Unfinished Autobiography of Aileen Wuornos

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Hell's Angels

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Cults


Manson

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The Road to Jonestown

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Street Theatre Comedians


Andy Kaufman Revealed!

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The Tao of Bill Murray

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Improv Nation

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Revolutionaries


Creating a Movement with Teeth

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Religion, Violence and Radical Environmentalism

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The Rise and Fall of the Eco-Radical Underground

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The Politics of Attack

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The Baader-Meinhof Complex

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Ukrainian Anarchists Mobilize for Armed Defense, Draw Solidarity from Abroad as Russia Invades

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Cracks in a Grey Sky: An Anthology of Do or Die

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Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging

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Igniting a Revolution

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Zapatista Spring

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Remembering the Armed Struggle

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The Way the Wind Blew

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Whither the Underground?

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Ashanti Alston on the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas

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Situationists


A Cavalier History of Surrealism

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The Revolution of Everyday Life

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Campaign Organising

Community Organising


Take Back the Land

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A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People

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Cooking up a revolution

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Unions & Worker Co-ops


Fighting for ourselves

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Workmates


Direct Action


Beautiful Trouble

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Recipes For Disaster

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Earth First! Direct Action Manual

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Ecodefense

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Political Philosophy


Anarchism


Anarchist Voices

Through his many books on the history' of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public’s conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This book contains 180 interviews conducted by Avrich overa period of 30 years, interviews that portray the human dimensions of a movement much maligned by the authorities and contemporary journalists. Most of the interviewees (anarchists as well as their friends and relatives) were active during the heyday of the movement, between the 1880s and the 1930s. 'They represent all schools of anarchism and include both famous figures and minor ones, previously overlooked by most historians. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti.

The yippies are briefly mentioned by Dwight Macdonald & Bob Zmuda.


Days of War, Nights of Love

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Property is theft

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What is Property?

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Statist "Private Property" Is Theft

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Acid Communism


From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism

Adam takes us through the aspects of melancholia and depressive psychology in Capitalist Realism, its psychological and social mechanisms, and how the question of the geopolitics of Capitalist Realism and neoliberalism shifted in Fisher's analysis from a Cold War East-West focus to one that centres the imperialist destruction of communism in Latin America. Reflecting on contemporary social movements such as anti-raids groups and school strikes, Fisher's optimism for a post-capitalist desire is illustrated through the reframing of Capitalist Realism in Acid Communism, a project which reaffirms that all consciousness is malleable and the site of an active struggle, a struggle haunted by the spectre of a world that could be free.


Turn On, Tune In, Rise Up

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K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

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The Emperor Wears No Clothes

The history of marijuana production and criminalisation.


Will Marijuana Save World Capitalism?

A review and critique of the above book.


Yippie Inspired Fiction


Little Brother

The novel is about four teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the Department of Homeland Security's attacks on the Bill of Rights.

Steal this book and wiki is referenced as inspiration.