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Honestly though it is an excellent idea. Like if we take like 20k worth of merchandise out of a Walmart en masse in blackbloc in the span of like five minutes and distribute it to poor folks who need it through clandestine mutual aid networks instead of just individual small scale illegalism we could achieve a lot of cool shit and get lots of free shotguns and air mattresses and tents and food and clothes and shoes and stuff to extend mutual aid and form non hierarchical defense networks and neighborhood assemblies and direct action affinity groups
as described in this song (0:50)
Fun history fact: activists have done this pretty succesfully lots of times.
In the Netherlands there were several groups in the 1980s that held massive ‘proletarian shopping protests’ in response to austerity measures. Hundreds of people would get together and storm a big supermarket, chain store or the cantine of a government building and just take everything. Actions were fast at an unexpected location so everyone was gone by the time to cops showed up. This was before security cameras and other security technology were as good as they are now so back in the day it required less masking up and wearing disposable gloves and shit like that.
Still, along with having a very direct result of free stuff for the poor, it send a powerful message: stop starving us or we will take the things we need.
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