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Any social revolution will be confronted with violence from its opponents. When this happens, anarchists, as social revolutionaries, will have to fight or perish. Recently there has been much discussion about violence at Crass gigs and how to deal with it.

The people who go to Crass gigs(regardless of being a skinhead or not) with the sole intention of trashing it, are imposing upon the people who go see Crass. These gig thrashing dickheads are consciously or unconsciously cops without uniforms.

By taking a pacifist stance, Crass are encouraging people to passively accept violence meted out to them by the dickheads.

To be an anarchist means, in part, to confront the state in all its manifestations(E.g. cops, preachers, dole officers, dickheads). The state, when confronted or attacked will react violently - so how can you be a pacifist and an anarchist?

On the subject of violence at gigs, I think Crass should encourage people to at least try and defend themselves en masse.

If Crass are so opposed to “the system” they must agree to class war - yet they cry “fight war not wars”.

As the jew said to the S.S. officer, “I don’t blame you, you’re just a product of the system”, we can say the same to dickheads who bottle our faces to shit at gigs.

I ask Crass to consider the contradiction between Anarchism and Pacifism (“peace”) and invite them to reply.

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Peaceful pro-“Crass”-tination

A critical look at Crass’s peaceful anarchy stance in relation to the violence at their gigs

Taken from the first issue of “Kill Your Pet Puppy”

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