posted March 21, 2013 11:59 PM            

My ex's fave book:

Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners [Paperback]
Crimethink Workers Collective
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_War,_Nights_of_Love

http://www.amazon.com/Days-War-Nights-Love-Crimethink/dp/097091010X

It's one I'd like to add to my library at some point.

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Beautifully designed A-Z of the totality of revolutionary youth politics. Sort of a Situ-inspired Steal This Book for everyday life, love, and how to live it. Heavily illustrated with photos, cartoons, posters, and other useful accoutrements for the new millenium. Believe the hype, and check out why this is already an underground bestseller.

Review
"It's an exciting book, and a great labor of love, skill, and daring." -- Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael
From the Author
CrimethInc. is an international "workers' collective" of men and women who are not willing to be mere "workers" anymore. Are you?

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

WARNING!: This book will not save your life.

Today there is a booming discontent industry, consisting of entrepreneurs who cash in on your misery by selling you products that describe and decry it. Thus the exchange economy finds a place even for its enemies: perpetuating both industry and discontent as we struggle to fight them, we keep the wheels turning by selling more merchandise. And as in every other aspect of your lives, your real desires to make something happen are channeled into consuming—and your own abilities and potential are displaced, projected onto the “revolutionary” items you purchase.

This book could be a part of that process. While we hope we are using our product to “sell” revolution, it might be that we are just using “revolution” to sell our product.* The best of intentions can’t protect us from this risk. But we’ve undertaken this project because we felt that, in addition to our other, less explicitly compromised activities, it might be worth giving the old experiment one more try: to see if a commodity can be created that gives more than it takes away.

For this book to have even the smallest chance of succeeding in that tall order, you can’t approach it passively, you can’t expect it to do the work. You have to regard it as a tool, nothing more. This book will not save your life; that, my friend, is up to you.

OK, that said, HERE WE GO!!!

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*After all, in this society, if something isn’t for sale, it might as well not exist—and it’s almost impossible to think of anything to do with something of value besides market it.

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posted March 22, 2013 12:01 AM            

Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye [Paperback]
Brad Warner

Awesome book.

reviews here:
http://www.amazon.com/Sit-Down-Shut-Up-Commentaries/dp/1577315596

posted March 22, 2013 12:51 AM            

I would go crazzyyyyyy with the power of liberty

posted March 22, 2013 12:59 AM            

This thread has the potential to become beautiful and inspirational. I'm not sure where to begin.....

posted March 22, 2013 04:47 AM            

what say you?