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the art of breaking something on purpose and calling it a strategy
means the deliberate destruction, obstruction, or undermining of something — equipment, plans, or efforts — usually done covertly to disrupt an enemy, employer, or rival.
from From French sabotage, from saboter, 'to clatter along in clogs' and hence 'to do clumsily, to botch' — built on sabot, a wooden shoe. The vivid popular tale claims French workers hurled their sabots into machinery to jam it, but that image is mostly folklore; the real path runs through the idea of working badly or noisily, like someone stomping about in heavy clogs. The word entered English in the early 20th century, carrying the sense of willful disruption.
- wooden origin
- named after sabots, the wooden shoes worn by French workers
- shoe myth
- workers throwing clogs into machines is mostly legend
- wartime manual
- the CIA published a guide on workplace sabotage in 1944
- beastie boys
- their 1994 hit was actually about a recording engineer
- slow on purpose
- endless meetings were a recommended sabotage tactic
reichstag fire — german parliament building burned february 27, 1933, blamed on communists to justify nazi takeover
operation fortitude — british wwii campaign sabotaging german radar and communications before d-day, june 1944
hollywood ten blacklist — ten screenwriters and directors blacklisted in 1950s after refusing to testify about communist ties