In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action - Vicky Osterweil
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A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.
Looting — a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods — is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement.
But Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class — not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state. All our beliefs about the innate righteousness of property and ownership, Osterweil explains, are built on the history of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous oppression.
From slave revolts to labor strikes to the modern-day movements for climate change, Black lives, and police abolition, Osterweil makes a convincing case for rioting and looting as weapons that bludgeon the status quo while uplifting the poor and marginalized. In Defense of Looting is a history of violent protest sparking social change, a compelling reframing of revolutionary activism, and a practical vision for a dramatically restructured society.
Table of Contents
Introduction
chapter one | THE RACIAL ROOTS OF PROPERTY
chapter two | LOOTING EMANCIPATION
chapter three | ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS
chapter four | WHITE RIOT
chapter five | LOOTED BREAD, STOLEN LABOR
chapter six | NO SUCH THING AS NONVIOLENCE
chapter seven | USING GUNS NONVIOLENTLY
chapter eight | CIVIL RIOTS
chapter nine | THE INHUMANITY OF LOOTERS
conclusion | OUT OF THE FLAMES OF FERGUSON
Acknowledgments
Notes
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This post has 54 comments with rating of 3.7/5
August 8th, 2021
I like the BLACK woman who thought she would support BLM by going out and protesting…only to come back to find her store looted. CLASSIC!!! Looting only hurts your neighborhoods and the owners. Thieves will use any OPPORTUNITY to do their job. It is never ‘OK’ to loot. But if you do, just remember…Is it worth your LIFE?
August 8th, 2021
What BullCrap.
You destroy the livelihood for people, not seldom from minority groups.
Such heroes.
August 8th, 2021
Hopefully someone loots her house
August 8th, 2021
Actually, she should then not complain about people not paying for her audiobook…
August 8th, 2021
this wasn’t a waste of time only because I gotta laugh at this bad book.
August 8th, 2021
Ms Osterweil, where does your salary go? Is it yours? Who lives in your house? Is it you? Do you own a car, which you presume to drive on undamaged roads? Or have you given it all away, redistributed it together with your half a brain cell?
August 8th, 2021
Vicky, formerly known as William Osterwell, pathetic plea for attention.
August 8th, 2021
Free it’s about the right price for this worthless book. I don’t normally believe in burning books, but this one needs to go right in the fire pit!
August 8th, 2021
you guys did so many evasive and empty arguments that tackled my curiosity to see what this book is really about. Thnks, uploader!
August 8th, 2021
>In Defense of Looting
I understand that there is freedom of speech, but everything has its limit. Maybe you let some pedo or necro talk positively about his inclinations?
August 8th, 2021
So, rioting where property is damaged is inexcusable. But we’re quite happy to turn a blind eye to invading the capitol to overturn democracy. Americans are weird.
August 8th, 2021
Like the Boston tea party was a literal tea party or something. You wouldn’t have a country if not for rioting and damaging property.
August 8th, 2021
What’s next? “In Defense of Rape”?
August 8th, 2021
@Jack_Milad - You still sore that “the colonies” broke away from your little island and now you’re entire economy depends on them? Or maybe it’s because “the colonies” have had to bail your sorry butts out of TWO world wars?
If you can’t tell the difference between destroying the property of a tyrannical government (Brits) and burning down a local business that provides services/goods to the local community while paying taxes to support the local community…then I’m glad you’re on the other side of the pond. Also, apparently, in the shallow end of the gene pool as well
August 8th, 2021
Jack_Milad-Funny how you compare a day of rioting from the right to YEARS of rioting from you people. That’s the same…right…LOL!
BTW…don’t start crying when one of these BLM ‘protesters’ drag you or your family from your car and beat the $hit out of you. OR…burns your home down…or burns your local grocery store down…or burns your place of employment down. I think grond2 has it right. “in the shallow end of the gene pool as well”. ANYONE who thinks it is OK to do the above things to ANYONE fits that description.
August 8th, 2021
@sable663 what? Didn’t I just agree with you? Property damage is worse than treason. We agreed.
August 8th, 2021
That Boston Tea Party was regarded by the evil Brits as treason. So was starving people trying to get food - so they put armed guards at the docks as food continued to be shipped away from a famine.
August 8th, 2021
Yuck!
August 8th, 2021
Check out his punk band “Vulture Sh*t” on youtube. This was when he was Willie.
August 8th, 2021
coming up next: “in defence of murder; some people just have it coming.”
August 8th, 2021
It is essential to get the print or ebook copy, follow the endnotes, and compare w other sources. Her understanding of the 1950s-1960s Black CRM is simply wrong. She attributes change to rioters, not direct action and the resulting media coverage. I don’t recall if she even knows about the economic boycotts of white businesses which coincided w sitins and marches and made a huge difference too. Anyway,see Eyes on the Prize, etc.
August 8th, 2021
@Jack_Milad
I would point out one major difference between the Boston Tea Party and the more common form of looting/rioting that I see today. The rioters/protestors at the Tea Party didn’t take the tea home with them for their personal use or to sell to others… they dumped it into the harbor to protest what they saw as unfair taxation. It was a slap in the face to their rulers. They destroyed government property.
When I see people rioting and looting today that’s not what they’re doing. I don’t understand how stealing designer handbags, sneakers, and electronics from private businesses somehow strikes a blow against the government or advances ’social justice.’
If their goal is to somehow redistribute wealth, they seem to be failing quite spectacularly.
August 8th, 2021
I’d say I hate this book but Americans deserve some rioting and looting considering how much of it they export throughout the world. But color revolutions are not so fun when it happens to your country is it? Well you get what you deserve.
August 8th, 2021
center442-They are just a bunch of criminals waiting for the right time to steal, rape, murder, and loot. It is interesting that so many people try to pawn it off as reparations and protesting. Even the news outlets do this. If some people try to do this to my home and family, the only problem I will have will be picking out which type of gun to use and what type of ammo to fire at them.
August 8th, 2021
primofan-I agree. We interfere in elections, try to take over countrys, and try to police the entire world. Trump wanted AMERICA FIRST but Biden seems to want AMERICA LAST.
August 9th, 2021
Jack_Milad , The Capitol has been breached before and people were shot and killed.. Try looking it up ,sad imp
August 9th, 2021
sable663
Back in 2012 the CIA Had admitted to interfering in over 112 elections worldwide .. i know that number is much higher
August 9th, 2021
@sable663 “Trump wanted AMERICA FIRST”
Actually, he wanted America second, after Russia.
And otherwise, “America alone”, destroying alliances like NATO.
Biden is trying to lead, which is not simply screaming “I am Number One”. It’s convincing other countries to work with you.
August 9th, 2021
#BlackCrimesMatter
August 9th, 2021
@BoxingBookBay Wouldn’t #AllCrimesMatter be more consistent with you lot’s stance?
August 9th, 2021
Gweilo-Day one…Biden shuts the Keystone XL pipeline down as well as stops ALL work on the Southern Border wall. About 20K jobs lost. That was DAY ONE.
A few weeks ago…”President Joe Biden is facing bipartisan backlash to his administration’s agreement with Germany that allows a controversial Russian natural-gas pipeline to be completed.”
So exactly WHO did you say was backing Russia? Sounds like Joe is putting Russia FIRST and America LAST!
And Biden leading? The only thing he is leading at is a runaway southern border, Corona Virus cases,the inflation, and almost $5 TRILLION in spending. Not to mention crime has been spiking and many cops dying. Crime had went up. Shootings way up. Biden’s solution? Blame the gun manufactures. Only thing DOWN is his ratings.
And when other countries WORK with you, they don’t take advantage of you like they will with this administration. They will walk ALL OVER this clown. Like I said…America LAST. This country is looking like an abandoned home. After a while, too much time and money will be required to repair the ROT. Soon,it will be worthless and either will continue to ROT or need to be demolished.
August 9th, 2021
Jack_Milad-I don’t think ANY crimes matter to people like yourself. BLM only matter UNLESS it is Black on BLACK. They no one cares. Not blacks. Not whites. Not any color. No one gives a $hit.
https://ibb.co/wsRvVHL
August 9th, 2021
Gweilo-Not to mention Biden is wanting to spend $4.5T HIS FIRST YEAR. As well as all the other money we have already spent this year. When you continue to print $$$, the dollar becomes less valuable. Notice your grocers bill has went up 10%-25% just in the last few months? Wait till that $4.5T bill comes in.
Venezuela is where we are headed.
August 9th, 2021
When you’re quite done with your strawman argument, point out to me the part where I said I advocate violence or theft. Or that I believe that ONLY black lives matter. Because my point was more an observation on how selective Americans (republicans in particular) are in condemning some things but not others. And as you and others have proven, it’s not because you’re incapable of understanding nuance. You just choose not to apply it when it suits you.
You could have condemned the actions of the violent few who stormed the Capitol, but instead chose to downplay the significance. Why? Because you felt they were justified? Because they’re on ‘your side’?
I’d speculate that it’s because you enjoy judging an entire group based on the actions of its most violent and extreme members allows you to make blanket statements. BLM can be written off as a violent movement as long as there’s some degree of property damage.
Shoe on the other foot, what does that make you? If you’re judged by the standards of the worst people who march for the right, we could assert that you’re a racist, homophobic, treasonous, domestic terrorist.
Go ahead, deny it. Show us how flawed your logic is, and how your entire premise relies on a double standard.
August 9th, 2021
sable663
Don’t waste your time trying to educate Jack_Milad, Gweilo or any of the other Antifa wannbes.
Remember the old saying: “Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty and the pig enjoys it”. That goes for Osterweil as well.
They are hateful, of low IQ and quite silly.
August 9th, 2021
> Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class — not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state.
By some strange association: “If pedophilia is a sexuality then burying them is just gardening.”
August 9th, 2021
@alnilam Funny you should bring that topic up. Y’know how we have a certain demographic here who like to say “X percent of the population are responsible for Y percent of this type of crime”?
Yeah, careful bringing up paedophilia if you’re a straight white male.
August 9th, 2021
hudsonkane-Agree 100%
August 9th, 2021
> Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class — not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state.
By some strange association: “If pedophilia is a sexuality then burying them is just gardening.”
“If stealing goods and destroying property is a messaging then shooting them is just sport.”
August 9th, 2021
sable663 no one outside america buys the fake “isolationism” stuff. The right were not isolationist because they cared about the world, they were isolationist because they are afraid a new refugee crisis from the middle east. Whenever there is riots in latin america (created by American embargos that starve their countries) the right cheers it on more than anybody. When rioters in Hong Kong destroy shopping malls and public property your average american thinks “it’s ok because they waved the american flag”. Sorry but this is not a issue of political difference. It is just collective karma for what your country has done. I hope this is just the beginning and every business in America gets looted. Enjoy your political fReEdOm.
August 9th, 2021
Next book: “In defense of assault.”
August 9th, 2021
primofan-Seems you are just part of the problem, cupcake. “I hope every business in America gets looted”. Wow. So it would be OK to say I hope everyone in your country will from Covid 19. Which I would never do. Seems you have more of a mental problem than the average person. Because MOST people wouldn’t wish harm on innocent people like you just did. Also, you are FOS. The Japanese are VERY isolationist. As are many other countries. But they love to have that American $ come to their front door. So they pretend to like other countries. Germany is another. Stop giving them support and they will be trying to take over the world again. So is Russia. Who is already trying to take over the world. Don’t fool yourself, hun. Just because some professor in college spouted a bunch of BS doesn’t make it gospel.
August 9th, 2021
illusional-I thought is was going to be “In defense of RAPE.” Oh hold on…that will be book 3.
August 9th, 2021
primofan-BTW…Karma is a b*tch. Wishing harm on others will get you the same one of these days. Count on it. Remember that the next time something goes wrong in your life. Just ask Kathy Griffin. Yup. :u/
August 10th, 2021
Now I wanted to say something about the fact that we have lived over these last two or three summers with agony and we have seen our cities going up in flames. And I would be the first to say that I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive, non-violence as the most potent weapon in grappling with the problem from a direct action point of view. I’m absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt. And I feel that we must always work with an effective, powerful weapon and method that brings about tangible results. But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.
Martin Luther King, 1968
August 10th, 2021
I wonder how many of the members who would disparage this book (of course without reading or listening to it) would leap to the defense of the death penalty, incarceration for political crimes or crimes against property, the “right” for the USA to invade other countries and perform drone strikes, etc., that do much more harm to a civil society?
August 10th, 2021
@kanguru
> Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class — not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state.
> I wonder how many of the members who would disparage this book (of course without reading or listening to it) would leap to the defense of the death penalty, incarceration for political crimes or crimes against property, the “right” for the USA to invade other countries and perform drone strikes, etc., that do much more harm to a civil society?
Nice try, but I would say “not so fast”.
The fundamental problem here, clearly visible even in the book annotation — at which point, precisely, “stealing goods and destroying property, political messaging” stops being such, and becomes “stealing goods and destroying property, usual crime”?
Can there be a line drawn between the former and the latter, even theoretically? So yourself and comrades can say “this is good crime, must go unpunished” and “this is bad crime, must be punished”?
August 10th, 2021
@alnilam What fantasy land are you living in where the law doesn’t punish looters?
August 11th, 2021
Only a Bnai Brith, Pro-ADL, APAIC, Unit 8200 agitator would call themselves ‘Free Palestine’ and post this trash. Here’s for people who actually care about peoples rights, whether at home or abroad, and aren’t trying to tamper in people’s things all day, because they have inbred control issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKpehZy78Q
August 11th, 2021
> What fantasy land are you living in where the law doesn’t punish looters?
Again — not so fast.
Taking it at face value “the progressives are suddenly all for the law” and “the law does punish all looters” — the author appears to be quite a devious character, pitting both useful idi@ts and criminals against goods-property owners and the police on political grounds, in effect opening Pandora’s box, writing a book about it, and laughing all the way to the bank.
August 11th, 2021
@alnilam Well there’s your problem, you’re taking something you haven’t read at face value and forming an argument based on conclusions you’ve pre-emptively decided to jump to, arguing against subtext in what other people have said that isn’t even there. Well done.
August 12th, 2021
It would be convenient to think that the dumbest people from the dumbest country (USA) are the people who frequent these comments. But they’re not the dumbest, as they can use a computer and manipulate torrents. So that means there are probably millions of Americans that are even dumber than the little incel nazi boys who are here all the time because they have literally nothing better to do.
With regards to the book, I’m not sure I agree with her argument. I’d have to read it and then comment, which would be really unusual round these parts.
See you later, Cletus, Cletus, Cletus, Cletus, Adolf and Cletus.
August 12th, 2021
Quite the debate I’ve started, eh? lol
August 13th, 2021
Table of Contents
Introduction
chapter one | THE RACIAL ROOTS OF PROPERTY
chapter two | LOOTING EMANCIPATION
chapter three | ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS
chapter four | WHITE RIOT
chapter five | LOOTED BREAD, STOLEN LABOR
chapter six | NO SUCH THING AS NONVIOLENCE
chapter seven | USING GUNS NONVIOLENTLY
chapter eight | CIVIL RIOTS
chapter nine | THE INHUMANITY OF LOOTERS
conclusion | OUT OF THE FLAMES OF FERGUSON
Acknowledgments
Notes
> A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.
> Looting — a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods — is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement.
Join the revolution, comrades! Don’t be shy, radicals, use most powerful tools for dismantling “white supremacy”! Because they have it, and you don’t! And because “ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS”! … And above all, don’t let the cowardly counter-revolutionary thought “What happens next?” to cross your mind!
Truly powerful stuff. Highly recommended.
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