don't get it fucked up. "nice shit for everybody" in that one essay from 10 years
ago does mean just that; but the intent of what was written was to link this
fucken vibe to an antipolitical communist tendency. the point was that in the
extralegal sense (crime!), the pursuit of the commodity, at great risk by the
dispossessed, is a part of the forefront of the struggle against the racial
regime of Capital today.

but the Leftist sees the looter and sees a prole that can be reformed. They see
someone that could be integrated into the project of creating the worker's
utopia, but not yet. clearly they got initiative. but the Leftist sees the desire of
the looter as somehow deformed or misguided. yes, the Leftist promises
heaven on earth but first you must fall in line with the Party, you must submit
yourself to experts whose whole lineage is a line of failed parties and/or mass
organizations, you must be willing to work EVEN MORE, you must become a
cog in the Party Machine. the only difference is this machine promises a
collective heaven, not the hyper-individualistic one of the world of capitalism.
an inversion that has historically created yet another elite as the rest of us
scrape by with shit work, but now we call each other comrade.

on the other page are some words written 54 years ago and yet they are
closer to the beat of today than much of the dull Left who have assumed
looters in the past few years as either 'police provocateurs' or those simply
exploiting a situation (which they are! but they view this negatively). the key
here is that the looter does not wait for a call from the Party, or even the
Federation. the looter understands even more directly that the parading of
affluence while so many are fucking broke is not only disgusting, it is a
situation which is worth fighting back against directly and looking fresh while
doing it.

"The looter takes the “affluent” society at its word. [They accept] the
abundance, only [they don't submit themselves] to the suffering that the
society inflicts on those who sacrifice themselves for what it encourages
them to want. [They want] to possess the commodities shown to [them]
everywhere, in the shop windows, in the media, while rejecting the rules of
exchange and the sacrifice they entail. [They reject] the commodity form
which encloses goods in its grip and moulds them according to the motives
of profit, according to the false needs created by Madison Avenue.

Once the commodity is not paid for, it is open to practical criticism; it
becomes a toy, the principle of play takes over. Stealing as opposition to the
organization of society is the negation of the rationality of the commodity.
The goods can be put to the service of a radical subjectivity free from the
sacrifices that perpetuate commodity production and consumption and they
Find themselves on a new field, the field of play. The commodity is freed to be
used in the destruction of the bourgeois world and ipso facto in its own
destruction. Only when the means of production become toys for the
manipulation of the proletariat, the class which ends class society, will life be
freed from hierarchical subordination to commodity values."

~ "Riot & Representation: The Significance of the Chicano Riot" by 1044 (1970)