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Anticolonial Violence, New Left Militancy and the Discourse of Self-Defense Anticolonial Violence, New Left Militancy and the Discourse of Self-Defense
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“A Street Gang with Analysis”: Patrolling the Lower East Side “A Street Gang with Analysis”: Patrolling the Lower East Side
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Fill More Space: Occupation and the “Total Art” of Self-Defense Fill More Space: Occupation and the “Total Art” of Self-Defense
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Armed Love Armed Love
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Escape From New York Escape From New York
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Four We’re Looking for People Who Like to Draw
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Published:March 2023
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Chapter four examines Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers’ relationship to 1960s discourses of anticolonial violence. The chapter’s title, “We’re Looking for People Who Like to Draw,” was part of an emblem stamped across numerous Motherfucker leaflets produced between 1968 and 1969 as the group’s escalating militancy entailed a significant shift in their orientation to cultural production. The chapter traces how this shift responded to a broader debate about the legitimacy of revolutionary violence among the global New Left, a developing discourse of self-defense arising from the Black freedom struggle, and the commodification of the East Village counterculture. The Motherfucker affinity group ultimately practiced a form of community self-defense influenced, in particular, by the Black Panthers’ community patrols and survival programs. Reading this new praxis of self-defense through the group’s most notable occupation—that of the Fillmore East theater—the chapter shows how the deprivatization of culture became a primary goal of Motherfucker struggles. With The Living Theatre’s paradigmatic production, Paradise Now, playing a crucial role in the failed occupation, the author considers how the group’s approach to political violence interfaced with the field of experimental theater.
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