$7 A HANDBOOK OF SURVIVAL AND WARFARE FOR THE CITIZENS OF WOODSTOCK NATION. ISBN 1-Sb8S8~ HU 3-3 | | iM!Dedicated to Jerry Lefcourt Lawyer and Brother Other books by the author: Fuck the System Revolution for the Hell of It Woodstock Nation © 1971 Abbie Hoffman Originally published independently by Pirate Editions and distributed by Grove Press, Inc. New York This edition published in the United States by Four Walls Eight Windows: 39 West 14th Street, Room 503 New York, NY 10011 With special thanks to Rob Warren of Skyline Books U.K. offices: Four Walls Eight Windows/Turnaround 27 Horsell Road London, N5 1XL, England All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a database or other retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Hoffman, Abbie. Steal this book : twenty-fifth anniversary facsimile edition / by Abbie Hoffman ; co-conspirator, Izak Haber ; accessory after the fact, Bert Cohen. p. om. Originally published: New York : Pirate Editions : Distributed by Grove Press, c1971. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-56858-053-3 (pbk.) 1. Anarchism—United States. 2. Radicalism—United States. |. Haber, Izak. Il. Cohen, Bert. Ill. Title. HX843.7.H64A3 19714 35'.83—de20 95-4840 cIP 10987654321rm It’s perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks. Here too, you learn the only rehabilitation possible—hatred of oppression. Steal This Book is, in a way, a manual of survival in the prison that is Amerika. It preaches jailbreak. It shows you where and 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 cui 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 Ui)