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Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, this book is an often humorous defense of an anarchist way of seeing – one that provides a powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Beginning with what Scott calls “the law of anarchist calisthenics,” an argument for law-breaking inspired by an East German pedestrian crossing, each chapter opens with a story that captures an essential anarchist truth. In the course of telling these stories, Scott touches on a wide variety of subjects: public disorder and riots, desertion, poaching, vernacular knowledge, assembly-line production, globalization, the petty bourgeoisie, school testing, playgrounds, and the practice of historical explanation.