Submitted by Fauvenoir (not verified) on Thu, 03/28/2019 - 23:22
Seems that the Zapatistas also inherited the BLA/Fred Hampton's view of grassroots communitarian resistance in the context of urbanity (the people's pancakes, community clinics and all that good shit). The autonomous zones of anarchists were also heavily influenced by May '68 and later autonomist practice and theory (starting but not limited to the Situationists). To be reducing it all the Debray/Guevara seems to me like an over-simplistic funnel.
Back in the '90s when this whole train rebooted, it was a melting pot of several radleft influences, a vast cloud blurring ideologies or tendencies that are otherwise diverging when not totally opposite (like trots, maos and anarchos). I recall a time when we were occupying several office buildings downtown Montreal, and nobody cared about the who's who and all that ideological team sports fandom.
Just saying how practices or their popularity have little to do with where they came from, decades earlier. What's more important to look into is the motives behind a given practice of insurgency, or the purpose. If occupations in your town are led by a bunch of maoists and are controlling entries and venues, then yeah, they are authoritarian Left, but that's not due to where the occupation movement came from, historically, or what was the academic theory behind it.
Seems that the Zapatistas also inherited the BLA/Fred Hampton's view of grassroots communitarian resistance in the context of urbanity (the people's pancakes, community clinics and all that good shit). The autonomous zones of anarchists were also heavily influenced by May '68 and later autonomist practice and theory (starting but not limited to the Situationists). To be reducing it all the Debray/Guevara seems to me like an over-simplistic funnel.
Back in the '90s when this whole train rebooted, it was a melting pot of several radleft influences, a vast cloud blurring ideologies or tendencies that are otherwise diverging when not totally opposite (like trots, maos and anarchos). I recall a time when we were occupying several office buildings downtown Montreal, and nobody cared about the who's who and all that ideological team sports fandom.
Just saying how practices or their popularity have little to do with where they came from, decades earlier. What's more important to look into is the motives behind a given practice of insurgency, or the purpose. If occupations in your town are led by a bunch of maoists and are controlling entries and venues, then yeah, they are authoritarian Left, but that's not due to where the occupation movement came from, historically, or what was the academic theory behind it.
Not implying you wouldn't disagree on that)