The concept of the album is that each song is dedicated to a person who has influenced the duo, which is reflected in the songs themselves; "Rag for William S. Burroughs" features the clatter of a type writer and a gunshot, representing the William Tell incident, and "Tract for Valerie Solanas" contains excerpts from the "SCUM Manifesto".
Streetlight Manifesto | Meat Beat Manifesto | SCUM Manifesto | 1890 Manifesto | The Communist Manifesto | The Wayne Manifesto | Southern Manifesto | Oxford Manifesto | Manifesto Records | Manifesto of the Ninety-Three | Il manifesto | Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam | Vyborg Manifesto | Ventotene Manifesto | The Manifesto Group | The Cluetrain Manifesto | The Checklist Manifesto | Sinn Féin Manifesto 1918 | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto | Scum of the Earth (band) | Scum of the Earth! | Scum of the Earth | "Scum" Goodman | Ostend Manifesto | North American Scum | New Libertarian Manifesto | Neo Gomanism Manifesto Special – On Taiwan | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Il Manifesto | Futurist Manifesto |
Actions such as Palestinian suicide bombing, the 9/11 attacks, land reform in Zimbabwe, the writings and actions of Valerie Solanas and SCUM, and what are treated by the state as racially-motivated crimes against white people, would be examples of cases where the term would be used.
The compilation included classic feminist essays by activists such as Naomi Weisstein, Lucinda Cisler, Kate Millett, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Flo Kennedy, Frances Beale, Jo Freeman and Mary Daly, as well as historical documents including the N.O.W. Bill of Rights, excerpts from the SCUM Manifesto, the Redstockings Manifesto, and historical documents from W.I.T.C.H.