From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon.
This expansive and carefully crafted reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance. With illuminating introductions throughout, it presents a range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary debate, providing tools for the reader's own interventions. In these pages can be found the work of Karl Marx, Matthew Arnold, Antonio Gramsci, C.L.R. James, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Virginia Woolf, Mikhail Bakhtin, Stuart Hall, Christopher Hill, Janice Radway, Eric Hobsbawm, Abbie Hoffman, Mahatma Gandhi, Dick Hebdige, Hakim Bey, Raymond Williams, Robin Kelley, Tom Frank and more than a dozen others, including a number of new activists/authors published here for the first time.

Contributions by: Abbie Hoffman, Adolph L. Reed, Andrew Boyd, Antonio Gramsci, Barbara Epstein, Bertolt Brecht, Christopher Hill, Dick Hebdige, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Eric Hobsbawm, Friedrich Engels, George Lipsitz, Hakim Bey, James C Scott, Janice Radway, Jason Grote, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Railla, Jerry Rubin, John Clarke, John Fiske, John Jordan, Karl Marx, Kathleen Hanna, Lawrence Levine, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm Cowley, Matthew Arnold, Mikhail Bakhtin, Raymond Williams, Ricardo Dominguez, Richard Hoggart, Robin DG Kelley, Simon Reynolds, Stuart Cosgrove, Stuart Hall, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin