‘They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements’ by Peter Gelderloos reviewed by Lucie Maughan (opens in new tab)

In a late 2024 interview for the Pluto Press podcast Radicals in Conversation, writer and movement participant Peter Gelderloos offered stark and refreshingly humble reasons for writing his new book They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us. Appearing alongside Vicky Osterweil, author of the 2020 work In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action (Bold Type Books), Gelderloos cited his motivations to write as ‘absolute desperation and depression’ as well as ‘hopelessness, anger and fru...