Author of "In Defense of Looting" says the idea that "the small business owner must be respected" and "is part of the community" is really "a right-wing myth" that has "crawled into leftist discourse."

If this anarcho-grad school discourse crawls into the left, we& #39;re fucked.

BTW, that is why it& #39;s given a friendly hearing on NPR. Neoliberals will be thrilled if the "Left" becomes synonymous w/ white intellectuals making grad-school arguments for why it& #39;s OK to attack grocery stores & pharmacies. They love anything that kills actual leftist politics.

I understand that the term "small business" can be a right-wing avatar to promote plutocracy. I& #39;m talking about real-life small business here, as was the author.

I also don& #39;t lecture oppressed communities on how to revolt. But that& #39;s separate than formulating pseudo-intellectual arguments that small businesses are really just "modes of oppression", & that we should attack sources of food/medicine because more sources should be available.