HEiST! - CrimethInc
HEiST! - CrimethInc
HEiST! - CrimethInc
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and support of one’s coworkers is more significant<br />
than a huge heist carried out in secret. Stolen<br />
goods shared in such a way that they build<br />
workers’ collective power are worth more than<br />
a high-dollar embezzlement that only benefits<br />
one employee, the same way a raise or promotion<br />
does.<br />
Remember the story of the hardware store<br />
employee who embezzled enough money to<br />
get a college degree, only to find himself back<br />
behind the cash register afterwards! When it<br />
was too late, he wished he’d done something<br />
with the money to create a community that<br />
could fight against the world of cash registers<br />
and college degrees. Even as he broke the laws<br />
of his society, he had still accepted its basic values,<br />
investing in status that could only advance<br />
him on the bosses’ terms. Better we invest ourselves<br />
in breaking its values as well as its laws!<br />
Practically everyone steals from work, even if<br />
many people won’t admit it, even if some people<br />
would like to reserve the privilege of doing<br />
so for themselves. Let’s draw this practice out of<br />
the shadows in which it takes place, so all the<br />
world has to engage with it and its implications<br />
in the full light of day. Perhaps workplace theft<br />
could be an Achilles heel for capitalism after<br />
all: not because it alone is sufficient to abolish<br />
wage labor and class society, but because<br />
it is the sort of open secret that must remain<br />
suppressed to preserve the illusion that everybody<br />
believes in and benefits from the present<br />
system.<br />
So if you find yourself coveting items in your<br />
place of employment, don’t just steal something<br />
from work – think about how you could<br />
steal everything from it, yourself and your coworkers<br />
above all. Stealing from work one thing<br />
at a time will take forever, literally – it would<br />
be more efficient to just steal the whole world<br />
back from work at once. That’s a daunting project,<br />
one we could only take on together – but<br />
it’s one we can begin right now.<br />
AL<br />
ROM<br />
Y!<strong>HEiST</strong>!<br />
Beyond Capitalist Meritocracy<br />
An Interview with Robin Bossis<br />
The Team is Real<br />
CAAWW<br />
Stories from the Front Lines<br />
Various Artists<br />
A Cashier’s Guide to Putting Yourself<br />
Through College via Workplace Theft<br />
The Angry Po-Boy Collective<br />
In Search of the Great Homer<br />
Miklós Haraszti<br />
Beyond Stealing from Work<br />
The Editors<br />
Don’t carp, carpenters!<br />
Don’t wait, waiters!<br />
Let’s put the team in teamster!<br />
Every steelworker a steal-from-worker!<br />
Every hoodlum a Robin Hoodlum!<br />
Raise the bar, baristas!<br />
Raise hell, bellboys!<br />
Wage war, wage slaves—<br />
April 15 is Steal Something<br />
From Work Day