everything you need to now about the autonomen

[Sasha]

in a comicbook published by the german secret service the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (and handend out in school, youthcenters etc.)

http://media.de.indymedia.org/media/2009/11//266957.pdf


how great propaganda (and source for spoofs, banners and posters) is this?




(thanx to ravachol for first posting this in the dutch section)

[bcbm]

damn autonomen, always trashing kiosks.

[Искра]

Is there any English version and what's this comic about? Is he fed up with burning cars or what?

[Wanted Man]

The comic is about Andi, the purple-haired boy who is just beginning to get involved with autonomen. He takes a classmate to a squat party, where they meet two other autonomen. They go outside, buy drinks at the kiosk, and have a chat, in which the autonomen suddenly go on a horrible extremist rant about capitalism (oh noes!).

Later on, they take Andi to spraypaint a circle-A on a train bridge (one of the autonomen says: "Resistance is a duty! We're going to spray until the capitalists finally get it!" Typical anarchist talk, amirite?). Only Andi gets arrested, and the next day at school he is really angry about the fascist state (his friends tell him to chill). His friends learn of his "left-extremist" involvement, and the muslim girl (who looks more like an ice skater) immediately knows what they're talking about, because her father has told her all about the creepy Turkish maoist terrorists or whatever. This is followed by a blurb exposing "foreign marxist-leninist extremists".

In the weekend, there is a fash demo and they go to a meeting in preparation. The girl there talks about repression, fascism, capitalism, and everyone is enchanted, except Andi, who is bored and doesn't understand it. Before the fash demo, he has a chat with his classmates, who lecture him about how democracy is good, and that the system must be improved, not destroyed (strangely, Andi doesn't get bored or fails to understand this crap).

Just before the demo, they meet some "autonomous nationalists", who merely exist in the story to explain what autonomous nazis are, and to have the other characters talk about how fascists and antifas are just as bad ("they look alike", "they talk the same crap", "they're equally hateful"). They go to the demo, everything proceeds as normally, but then, on the next page, suddenly there are cars burning and the kiosk (where they got drinks from that friendly guy before! Pigs! :crying:) is ruined. In the end, Andi is disillusioned, but he reconciles with his friends, who promise to help him do the work that he has been ordered to do after the spraypainting.

The story is pretty funny, because of the way the characters talk (they really did the research, right? :lol:), and because we don't see why or how the demo suddenly turns into a riot. The anarchist girl at the meeting even says that the counter-demo will be non-violent (another one says: "That simply means that we will not get caught!"). Maybe this proves that all extremists are liars or something.

[bcbm]

This is followed by a blurb exposing "foreign marxist-leninist extremists".

:lol:

[Tyrlop]

interesting, but there is nothing as left-extremism, that is a bullshit word.
maybe it would be possible to use the same drawings and then fill out text in the boxes

[Искра]

Ha ha ha :D
Interesting thing to me are the details... Crass t-shirt for example :D

[Wanted Man]

I like the point where the boy walks into the anarchist meeting in a hoodie with a white star on it, and the anarchist girl is like: "Wow, it's cool that you're with us now!" I also liked the exchange between the antifas and the nazis:

"Stupid nazis! We'll get you - if the police don't protect you again!"
"Nonsense, they are protecting you from us, otherwise, heads would roll."
"First we'll get rid of the pigs, then you, and then the whole exploitative system will go!"
"You have no idea, girl! We know what's best for Germany. We are the future and you are the past."
"No, WE are the future! Nazis kill and the state deports. They're the same bunch of racists."
"You ??? (what does the expression "spinnst wohl" mean? -WM), we are entirely against the system. You are just agents of the multicultural state after all!"

The other kids are like: "They all talk the same crap", "They also look alike", "But they totally hate each other".

There are actually 3 of these comics: the other 2 are about nazism and Islamism, respectively: http://www.andi.nrw.de/ They are quite silly, but not as much as this one.

[Honggweilo]

Its funny how this is written in EXACT the same style and chronological order as "glopie kopie wereldbol" :laugh:

http://www.epo.be/uitgeverij/extrainfo.php?id=90_6445_324_1-B

http://www.epo.be/extra/glopie10.jpg

[rebelmouse]

well, people, I hope autonomen there will make their counter propaganda to this, and give it to pupils. title should be: from autonomen about autonomen.