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When I came back from a trip in Europe where I had the FULL ZAD experience (lol), I was surprised to see anarcho-punk looking chicks working on promotional material at the airport for a well-known mainstream music festival. Then I also noticed that all of the other presumably anarcho-punk types weren't doing anything much else than scenestering, interrupted with (very) occasional small-time rioting and maybe "Johns", i.e. nightly clandestine actions, usually involving paints and hammers. Instead of having a squatter milieu like in many parts of Euro anarchyland, here you had people who work their way up the social ladder in the arts sector, and buying themselves land in the countryside and consolidating "communes" in trendy neighborhoods. So this was fucked.

Subcultures were a conduct for this shit, not a tool for social opposition.