Indeed, a pretty stupid posting in the category: upcoming events for young men with too much testosterone.
To keep you informed about these grand riots in Berlin:
- the police know that you are coming and that you are stupid
- people throw stones and even molotovs over your head, so they sometimes don't land on the cops but on YOU
- the whole tradition of a revolutionary 1 May demonstration in Berlin is completely dead for many many years, thanks to political opportunism of the people who organize it, what is left are just a bunch of Stalinists and riot-tourists in a senseless clash with the cops
- this demonstration is completely out of touch with social reality in Berlin, Berliners don't go on the street and are even hardly aware of the whole event. so there's absolutely no connection with local social struggle, just some disconnected idea of a tradition (which is actually dead)
- each year a bunch of rioters get arrested and the punishments are severe: you'll land in jail for quite a while and there won't be many people who will care about you
If you want to contribute to the continuation of 1 May as an international day of social struggle: try to organize something in your own city or somewhere nearby - it might be small and not very spectacular, but at least it might make some sense.
When you don't have that many braincells and too much testosterone and you think you're some sort of a hero: please go ahead to Berlin and try to get your kicks over there - but please don't wine over police violence or repression, don't play any martyr game and don't try to bother us!
Indeed, a pretty stupid
Indeed, a pretty stupid posting in the category: upcoming events for young men with too much testosterone.
To keep you informed about these grand riots in Berlin:
- the police know that you are coming and that you are stupid
- people throw stones and even molotovs over your head, so they sometimes don't land on the cops but on YOU
- the whole tradition of a revolutionary 1 May demonstration in Berlin is completely dead for many many years, thanks to political opportunism of the people who organize it, what is left are just a bunch of Stalinists and riot-tourists in a senseless clash with the cops
- this demonstration is completely out of touch with social reality in Berlin, Berliners don't go on the street and are even hardly aware of the whole event. so there's absolutely no connection with local social struggle, just some disconnected idea of a tradition (which is actually dead)
- each year a bunch of rioters get arrested and the punishments are severe: you'll land in jail for quite a while and there won't be many people who will care about you
If you want to contribute to the continuation of 1 May as an international day of social struggle: try to organize something in your own city or somewhere nearby - it might be small and not very spectacular, but at least it might make some sense.
When you don't have that many braincells and too much testosterone and you think you're some sort of a hero: please go ahead to Berlin and try to get your kicks over there - but please don't wine over police violence or repression, don't play any martyr game and don't try to bother us!