>Note that CrimethInc.'s on the very insurrectionary,
>non/anti-organizational end of the anarchist spectrum. But if Hedges'
>public speaking on this topic is anywhere near as ignorant and boorish
>as his writing, I kind of imagine his opponent's perspective won't be
>such an issue.
I tend to disagree with Hedges that the Black Bloc movement is "non-strategic and actively opposed to strategy". Its seems plain to me that the Black Bloc simply has a different objective to the Occupy Movement.
The Black Bloc objectives are to grow the Black Bloc, even if that is at the expense of the other movements they latch on to. That is they are purely sectarian. By providing the state with a pretext to crush a protest, the Black Bloc is actually being strategic. Because this repression often tends to radicalise people directly involved leading to some of them being recruited by the Black Bloc.
That is will certainly isolate the wider movement from the public is of no concern to the Black Bloc, because they are not concerned with actually achieving any of the objectives of the wider wider movement.
So not only do the Black Bloc have a strategy, but it is a proven and successful strategy.
Apart from that I thought his writing was not too bad.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas