With apologies to nobody · after Abbie Hoffman
Hoffman titled it Steal This Book because the commodity form was the enemy — you don't buy your way into a commons, you take your share of it. Same here. The artwork below is dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Download it, print it, wear it, modify it, hand it to a stranger. No permission, no attribution, no catch.
The one thing we keep is the wordmark — The Leveling — because that's the door home, not a product. And one ask, which is the spirit and not a rule: aim it up. Mock the owner, the enclosure, the market-as-religion, the machine. Never the neighbor. The joke is on the con, never the conned.
The spine
Nemo Altior · Keep the Garden Level
The leveling reflex itself — the band that watches for the one who'd rise above the rest and cuts him back to size. Boehm's reverse dominance hierarchy, rendered as a union local you'd actually join.
Still Standing
Equality is not the resting state — it's the coalition holding the line, every day. The many who keep the field flat by refusing, together, to be ruled. Still standing.
Local 1757 · Empty Every Granary · Forgive the Debts
Surplus is where the leveling broke: store grain, store power, buy the neighbors. The League's answer is the oldest one we have — the clean-slate decree. Empty the granary; forgive the debts.
The Jester archetypes · punch up, never down
Your Sense of Fair Is Childish
The market re-described as physics and worshipped as scripture — the priesthood that preaches your hunger for fairness is something you'll grow out of. Mock the doctrine, never the believer.
Fence the Commons
The firm that fences what was open and bills you for the view. Surplus, a stake in the ground, a PRIVATE sign where the field used to be everyone's.
He Never Had to Defeat the Many — He Paid the Middle
La Boétie's machine: the structure stands because a bought middle holds it up, not because the top defeated the bottom. The figures are the mechanism — and the mechanism can step away.
The license, plainly
Artwork: CC0 1.0 — public domain, do anything. Full notice → The name & wordmark The Leveling stay a trademark (don't pass a remix off as the official mark). That's it.
If one of these makes someone ask what it means, send them home. That's the whole point — the shirt is a door.
