Critical Reception
Evasion received little coverage in the mainstream media, and received mixed reviews in anarchist and radical circles. Many were inspired by Evasion's promise of liberation from industrial capitalism through crime. Some criticized the author's "arrogance" and "white privilege." The Insurgent wrote, “The author of Evasion is a product of his time: an alienated high school dropout that refuses wage-slavery and commodity economic systems in the only way he can—by becoming an outlaw."
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