STEAL THIS BOOK
By Abbie Hoffman
Dedicated to Jerry Lefcourt, Lawyer and Brother
Library of Congress number 72-157115 (stolen from Library of Congress)
copyright ©1971 PIRATE EDITION
STABLE OF DISCONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

AIDING AND ABETTING

SURVIVE!
1. FREE FOOD
¥ Restaurants
¥ Food Programs
¥ Supermarkets
¥ Wholesale Markets
¥ Food Conspiracies
¥ Cheap Chow
2. FREE CLOTHING AND FURNITURE
¥ Free Clothing
¥ Sandals
¥ Free Furniture
3. FREE TRANSPORTATION
¥ Hitch-Hiking
¥ Freighting
¥ Cars
¥ Buses
¥ Airlines
¥ In City Travel
4. FREE LAND
5. FREE HOUSING
¥ Communes
¥ Urban Living
¥ Rural Living
¥ List of Communes
6. FREE EDUCATION
¥ List of Free Universities
7. FREE MEDICAL CARE
¥ Birth Control Clinics
¥ Abortions
¥ Diseases Treated Free
8. FREE COMMUNICATION
¥ Press Conference
¥ Wall Painting
¥ Use of the Flag
¥ Radio
¥ Free Telephones
¥ Pay Phones
9. FREE PLAY
¥ Movies and Concerts
¥ Records and Books
10. FREE MONEY
¥ Welfare
¥ Unemployment
¥ Panhandling
¥ Rip-Offs
¥ The International Yippie Currency Exchange
11. FREE DOPE
¥ Buying, Selling and Giving It Away
¥ Growing Your Own
12. ASSORTED FREEBIES
¥ Laundry
¥ Pets
¥ Posters
¥ Security
¥ Postage
¥ Maps
¥ Ministry
¥ Attrocities
¥ Veteran's Benefits
¥ Watch
¥ Vacations
¥ Drinks
¥ Burials
¥ Astrodome Pictures
¥ Diploma
¥ Toilets
FIGHT!
1. TELL IT ALL, BROTHERS AND SISTERS
¥ Starting a Printing Workshop
¥ Underground Newspapers
¥ High School Papers
¥ G.I. Papers
¥ News Services
¥ The Underground Press
¥ Switchboards
2. GUERRILLA BROADCASTING
¥ Guerrilla Radio
¥ Guerrilla Television
3. DEMONSTRATIONS
¥ Dress
¥ Helmets
¥ Gas Masks
¥ Walkie-Talkies
¥ Other Equipment
4. TRASHING
¥ Weapons for Street Fighting
¥ Knife Fighting
¥ Unarmed Defense
¥ General Strategy Rep
5. PEOPLE'S CHEMISTRY
¥ Stink Bomb
¥ Smoke Bomb
¥ CBW
¥ Molotov Cocktail
¥ Sterno Bomb
¥ Aerosol Bomb
¥ Pipe Bombs
¥ General Bomb Strategy
6. FIRST AID FOR STREET FIGHTERS
¥ What to Do
¥ Medical Committees
7. HIP-POCKET LAW
¥ Legal Advice
¥ Lawyer's Group
¥ Join the Army of Your Choice
¥ Canada, Sweden & Political Asylum
8. STEAL NOW, PAY NEVER
¥ Shoplifting
¥ Techniques
¥ On the Job
¥ Credit Cards
9. MONKEY WELFARE
10. PIECE NOW
¥ Handguns
¥ Rifles
¥ Shotguns
¥ Other Weapons
¥ Training
¥ Gun Laws
11. THE UNDERGROUND
¥ Identification Papers
¥ Communication
LIBERATE!
1. FUCK NEW YORK
2. FUCK CHICAGO
3. FUCK LOS ANGELES
4. FUCK SAN FRANCISCO
INTRODUCTION
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 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 out 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 understands corporate feudalism as the only robbery worthy of being called "crime," for it is committed against the people as a whole. Whether the ways it describes to rip-off shit are legal or illegal is irrelevant. The dictionary of law is written by the bosses of order. Our moral dictionary says no heisting from each other. To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.Community within our Nation, chaos in theirs; that is the message of SURVIVE!We cannot survive without learning to fight and that is the lesson in the second section.