A new “provocative, Marxist-informed defense of looting” has been published by Bold Type Books, and author Vicky Osterweil has unwittingly penned a stirring appeal for the creation of a “John Galt Cargo Cult.”

In Defense of Looting postulates that a new world is possible, and that “joyous and liberatory” looting will help to usher that world into existence.

Looting, says Osterweil, “attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head … they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had…