Editing Steal This Book (section)

==Content==
''Steal This Book'' is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!". There is also an introduction and appendix that lists "approved" organizations and other books worth stealing.

"Survive!" gives information and methods for obtaining goods and services for free or at discounted rates. It covers a broad range of items, including food, clothing, furniture, transportation, land, livestock, housing, education, medical care, communication, entertainment, money, and drugs. There is further advice on [[slug (coin)|slug coins]], panhandling, [[welfare spending|welfare]], [[shoplifting]], growing [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]], and establishing a [[commune (intentional community)|commune]].

"Fight!" includes chapters on starting an [[underground press]], broadcasting through guerrilla radio or [[guerrilla television]], non-violent [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]] and how to protect oneself if they become violent, how to make an assortment of home-made bombs, first aid for street fighters, legal advice, how to seek political asylum, guerrilla warfare, gun laws, and identification papers.

The final section, "Liberate!", contains information particular to four major cities: [[New York City]], [[Chicago]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[San Francisco]].

Hoffman has an idiosyncratic writing style, and incorporates slang specific to his subculture—e.g., referring to his country as "[[wikt:Amerika#English|Amerika]]." In the book, Hoffman calls America the "Pig Empire" and contends that it is not immoral to steal from it—in fact, Hoffman wrote, it is immoral ''not'' to do so.<ref>{{cite book |last=Raskin |first=Jonah |title=For the Hell of It |url=https://archive.org/details/forhellofitlifet00rask |url-access=registration |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=1996 |isbn=0-520-21379-3}}</ref> The term was picked up by the [[Youth International Party|Yippies]], and was widely used by what became known as the "[[Woodstock Nation]]."<ref>{{cite book |last=Harris |first=Randy |title=The Linguistics Wars |url=https://archive.org/details/linguisticswars00harr |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford Oxfordshire |year=1993 |isbn=0-19-509834-X}}</ref> Some of the information in the book has since become obsolete for technological or [[administrative law|regulatory]] reasons, but the book iconically reflects the hippie [[zeitgeist]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lezard |first1=Nicholas |title=Direct action |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/25/1 |access-date=26 April 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=May 25, 2002}}</ref>