Other than that, they're both bullies hiding behind a black uniform, weapons of destruction, an organization and the fury they unleash upon people and property.
Their fear and loathing of the "enemy" is the fuel for their violence; the target of their rage shifts in accordance with their allegiances.
Neither is necessarily aligned with a political orientation; they're opportunists, pragmatists and followers.
They're killer ants.
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Hey, there's evidence suggesting that the blak bloc anarkist is a krusading berserker kop. See this article at Global Research for more info.
And in some cases they might actually be the same person entirely...
The police have a history captured on video of being agent provocateurs.
There are groups of anarchists who are interested in violence. I spent a number of years in the anarchist left. Violence at the anarchist convention in Toronto in part was why I left - it was the desire for violence by a young, alienated, and angry crowd.
It is difficult to say what police provocateurs were doing. I wouldn't want to dismiss the possibility. On the other hand, I think that the black block is real, the tactics they use were known to me decades ago, and the desire to wish them away is incorrect - or to claim that they are all police provocateurs is a lazy way out of what may (or may not) require a change in the way we view the world.
Similarly, the black block are very clearly aligned with anarchism - propaganda by the deed - a very definite and fairly well established political orientation within the philosophy of anarchism. Granted my knowledge is a few decades out of date, but it looks similar to me now as when I drifted away. Just for the record, there are several different political thoughts within anarchism, ranging at one end from pacifism, to the other end armed insurrection.
I don't think I wish to dispute the view that they are opportunists, pragmatists, and followers, but my impression is that they are politically aligned.
I don't doubt that many of the black bloc are real - albeit misguided - activists. Some with detailed ideological frameworks for thier behavior, others with no more complex a praxis than 'It's fun to fuck shit up.'
I do believe that the police find them extremely useful to the degree that they are egged on and in some cases - proven unambiguously - impersonated to justify budgets, tactics and narratives.
Was every idiot with a scarf over his face smashing windows and burning cars an undercover cop? Obviously not, but I do believe some of them were and some that weren't were allowed to rampage because their actions justified the actions the police wanted to take.
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