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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Manifesto of the Communist Party . New York: Signet, 1998. Anonymous. Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist This is the one that started it all, and the Cookbook . CrimeThink, work that made Marx and Engels famous. 2004. Written hastily for the International Work- ingmen’s Association on the eve of the Not to be confused with “The Anarchist’s Cook- 1848 revolutions, the Communist Mani- book”, a guide to wannabe terrorists, this book pro- festo provides an eloquent denunciation motes peaceful, non-coercive activism. A less angry of capitalism, a concise introduction to Marx’s theory of version of Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book , Reci- social change, and a stirring call to arms to the interna- pes for Disaster contains information useful for hip- tional proletariat. Quote at parties: “A spectre is haunting pies, hitchhikers, dope-smokers, and other anti- Europe”, “Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to authoritarians. Select list of contents: Antifascist lose but your chains.” Action, Asphalt Mosaic, Bicycle Collectives, Block- ades and Lockdowns, Classroom Takeover, Collec- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. What is tives, Corporate Downsizing, Food Not Bombs, Graf- Property? Cambridge: Cambridge fiti, Health Care, Hitchhiking, Marches and Parades, University Press, 2004. Nonmonogamous Relationships, Smoke Bombs, Squatting, Stickering, Undermining Oppression. This book is to anarchists what the Com- munist Manifesto is to communists. Proudhon was the foremost anarchist Abbie Hoffman. Steal This Book . New York: thinker of his day, and his background in Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. the artisanal French Jura region made him an enemy of high-flown language and philoso- The bible of the late sixties phizing, which of course meant that he and Marx counterculture, Steal This Book couldn’t stand each other. A seminal introduction to gives advice on growing mari- anarchism. Quote at parties: “What is property? juana, start a radio station or Property is theft!” live in a commune, all for the low low price of, well, free. Ab- bie Hoffman, despite his Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays . New “yippiedom” was a confirmed York: Hard Press, 2006. anti-authoritarian, and this book is his testament. Full of late Red Emma’s classic work on anarchism and feminism remains sixties rhetoric (“dig the spirit of the struggle, don’t a vitally important work even today. In order for anarchists and get hung up on a sacrifice trip”), but charming in its feminists today to remain relevant they have to know where advocacy of violence in a pre-terrorist age. Quote at they came from. This is where they came from. Quote at par- parties: “Our moral dictionary says no heisting from ties: “The history of human growth and development is at the each other. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars heralding the approach of a brighter dawn”. of the Pig Empire is equally immoral”.