Luke’s Reviews > In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action > Status Update
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Whereas armed self-defense will always be an important part of struggles for liberation, the arms themselves have no magical property to make our movement more serious, more revolutionary, more powerful. The power of the attack on white settler society is seen instead in the broad lawlessness, property destruction, looting, and cop-free zones produced by the riot and is reflected in the attendant sense of freedom,...
— Dec 14, 2025 11:24AM
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"left-wing terrorism" really, Osterweil? Just going to throw that out without any rhetorical consistency and leave your sources to rot?
— Dec 14, 2025 11:37AM
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Killing for property is restoring order, because worship of property at the expense of Black death is what American order is.
— Dec 11, 2025 07:52PM
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Idealistic, nonviolence-trained Freedom Riders were guarded where they worked, lived, and slept by local people with guns, sometimes over [the Freedom Riders'] objections.
— Dec 09, 2025 01:25PM
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The unemployed [...of 1929] faced a crisis exacerbated by an American ideology that rejected and minimized social services [...]; an utterly unprepared and fundamentally unsympathetic federal government; and a plutocratic gang of billionaire monopolists who uttered patriotic pieties and predictions of imminent economic recovery while laying off tens of thousands of workers.
— Dec 07, 2025 06:24PM
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White people taking Black people's things is what happens under the conditions of order, not the conditions of riot.
— Dec 07, 2025 04:04PM
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Not to be outdone by the other branches of government, the Supreme Court in 1857 issued the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Black people had never been allowed to be nor ever could be American citizens, that Congress was constitutionally unable to ban slavery in the territories, and that the federal government had no legal ground to free slaves whatsoever.
— Dec 05, 2025 08:18AM
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Liberals may oppose the death penalty, but they, like conservatives, believe in the efficacy of murder: they had little to say about Obama's extrajudicial drone executions, his death lists and Terror Tuesdays, and Democrats mostly critiqued Trump's 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani on procedural grounds: "He didn't consult Congress!"
— Dec 03, 2025 08:12AM
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...unity, and radical safety felt by the rioters.
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