Even in the 1980’s the proto-‘black bloc’ never allowed their tactics to be ‘brought up for discussion”
I have been sad to see how the f*cked black block tactics at Occupy Oakland have been entrenched under the cover of an Anarchist General Assembly consensus process, when in fact the GA has never approved these tactics.
The Oracle Bruce Sterling has pointed us to a 1990 discussion of the Dutch Squatter movement. http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet/Cracking/special.html
‘the tendency, inherent to the “squat movement” concept, of seeing itself as an
old-style revolutionary bloc. Ever since the beginning there had been a
black helmet brigade which felt it had joined battle with the municipal
social democracy. They used buildings and stray figures as instruments
for this higher goal, which they never allowed others to bring up for
discussion.’
