Description: "Property damage constitutes a commonplace feature of global political protest. How then to evaluate it? Pushing back against the tendency to conflate it with political violence, Scheuerman grapples with the question of when, if ever, politically motivated property harms are justifiable, drawing on a wide range of timely real-world examples"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "In a turbulent age of deepening social unrest and rising political repression, William E. Scheuerman dares to say the unsayable: while violence against people is always in principle antithetical to democracy, some types of property disobedience--corporate 'takedowns, ' campus occupations, toppling public monuments, and sabotaging arms factories--may well serve to rekindle and strengthen its spirit and substance. A brilliant book by a brilliant political thinker whose analytic sophistication and political humility show why in these difficult times thinking imaginatively about democracy is so vital for securing its future."-- "John Keane, University of Sydney, author of The Life and Death of Democracy"