Interesting look at a culture unfamiliar to me. My internal smug prick says it's ironic that an anarchist group used violence to enforce social norms, but maybe I haven't read enough theory.
Also, I find the act of printing and distributing a zine to justify beating the shit out of some guy really funny. Like, you can't just jump a guy who pissed you off, you have to make a production out of it, and provide documentation.
I will say that this article has biased me against the Montreal anarchist community. The festival FAQ [ https://constellationmtl.net/faq/ ] says that they basically have no plans for conflict resolution, so everybody be cool. Obviously this approach didn't really work out here, so I can't imagine it works at larger scales.
Not familiar with the details of this event, but in general I don't think it's reasonable to require event organizers to provide a "plan for conflict resolution". More broadly (than events): in my experience of leftist organizing, endowing an entity with its own HR department (for "conflict resolution") results in a festering cesspool where people with no actual skills to offer play at being cops. I myself have not been the victim of these cops but I've seen their interventions and...it reminded me that Rule of Law (however imperfect) is better than improvised street justice.
Bonus feature of the Radical Fuck Off Workshop: once you learn how to say Fuck Off to the 23 year old wokeist nincompoop, you can transfer that learning to your workplace, where you can say Fuck Off to your 27 year old (or whatever) overbearing "boss".
Interesting look at a culture unfamiliar to me. My internal smug prick says it's ironic that an anarchist group used violence to enforce social norms, but maybe I haven't read enough theory.
Also, I find the act of printing and distributing a zine to justify beating the shit out of some guy really funny. Like, you can't just jump a guy who pissed you off, you have to make a production out of it, and provide documentation.
I will say that this article has biased me against the Montreal anarchist community. The festival FAQ [ https://constellationmtl.net/faq/ ] says that they basically have no plans for conflict resolution, so everybody be cool. Obviously this approach didn't really work out here, so I can't imagine it works at larger scales.
Not familiar with the details of this event, but in general I don't think it's reasonable to require event organizers to provide a "plan for conflict resolution". More broadly (than events): in my experience of leftist organizing, endowing an entity with its own HR department (for "conflict resolution") results in a festering cesspool where people with no actual skills to offer play at being cops. I myself have not been the victim of these cops but I've seen their interventions and...it reminded me that Rule of Law (however imperfect) is better than improvised street justice.
Bonus feature of the Radical Fuck Off Workshop: once you learn how to say Fuck Off to the 23 year old wokeist nincompoop, you can transfer that learning to your workplace, where you can say Fuck Off to your 27 year old (or whatever) overbearing "boss".