Alfredo Bonanno's tension is over

[hitmouse]

I thought I'd never really read anything by him, then realised that he wrote Anarchist Tension, which I've always thought is quite good. Also I swear I once saw a thread on here with BA claiming he was dull company to share a police cell with, but have never found that again either. Anyway, RIP to a real one and so on.

 

[Pickman's model]

RIP

 

[The39thStep]

Never heard of him tbh , thought he might be part of a crime family

 

[hitmouse]

So, when these gentlemen say, ‘You are utopians, you anarchists are dreamers, your utopia would never work’, we must reply, ‘Yes, it’s true, anarchism is a tension, not a realisation, not a concrete attempt to bring about anarchy tomorrow morning’. But we must also be able to say but you, distinguished democratic gentlemen in government that regulate our lives, that think you can get into our heads, our brains, that govern us through the opinions that you form daily in your newspapers, in the universities, schools, etc., what have you gentlemen accomplished? A world worth living in?

 

[chilango]

RIP.

Bonkers politics for bonkers times.

Had the pleasure of meeting Jean Weir once and came away with a stack of Alfredo's writings.

Not my cup of tea, but so what?

 

[redsquirrel]

I thought I'd never really read anything by him, then realised that he wrote Anarchist Tension, which I've always thought is quite good. Also I swear I once saw a thread on here with BA claiming he was dull company to share a police cell with, but have never found that again either. Anyway, RIP to a real one and so on.

Gah butchersapron has got to come back just to confirm or deny this

Anyway RIP

 

[kenny g]

RIP. A life definitely and defiantly lived.

È morto Alfredo Maria Bonanno, ideologo degli anarco-insurrezionalisti

È stato più volte arrestato, ma è rimasto un punto di riferimento per un certo mondo intellettuale. È morto a Trieste a 86 anni

www.editorialedomani.it

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Never heard of him tbh , thought he might be part of a crime family

He did time for allegedly robbing a bank iirc? Is that right?

 

[charlie mowbray]

Yes. He stayed at my place once back in the 1970s. We did not agree politically.

 

[Rob Ray]

He did time for allegedly robbing a bank iirc? Is that right?

In 2009 he was picked up as the getaway driver in a robbery, aged 72, which might be the one you're thinking of, but he got up to a fair bit other than that: Bonanno arrested in Greece on suspicion of involvement in armed bank robbery

It's probably worth noting there is a Bonanno crime family, which is one of the original five New York Mafia families, but they're not related afaik.

 

[RD2003]

Never heard of him tbh , thought he might be part of a crime family

Ice cream family in Ancoats. Big rival to Granelli's.

 

[charlie mowbray]

bollox they were.

 

[The39thStep]

Ice cream family in Ancoats. Big rival to Granelli's.

The ice cream war of Oxford Road

 

[hitmouse]

In 2009 he was picked up as the getaway driver in a robbery, aged 72, which might be the one you're thinking of, but he got up to a fair bit other than that: Bonanno arrested in Greece on suspicion of involvement in armed bank robbery

It's probably worth noting there is a Bonanno crime family, which is one of the original five New York Mafia families, but they're not related afaik.

And also a psychology professor called Bonanno who writes on trauma and resilience, which is a set-up to make some jokes that go over really well if you know people who are really into contemporary therapeutic practice and have at least some familiarity with insurrectionary anarchism, but don't quite work outside of that very specific section of the venn diagram.

 

[planetgeli]

And also a psychology professor called Bonanno who writes on trauma and resilience, which is a set-up to make some jokes that go over really well if you know people who are really into contemporary therapeutic practice and have at least some familiarity with insurrectionary anarchism, but don't quite work outside of that very specific section of the venn diagram.

That's me that is. (Sort of - I'm a trauma specialist with a passing interest in insurrection, anarchistic or not).

So go on then, try me

 

[The39thStep]

Well, you live and learn. According to somebody on Twitter called Anarcho-Syndicalist Gamer our man here 'participated in first Balkan anarchist bookfair in 2003'

 

[planetgeli]

Anarchist bookfair, anarchist bookfair, anarchist bookfair.

They fucking invented networking didn't they?

Bookfairs are not intended to replace external political activism or fight capitalism, but serve as a space for anarchist activists to build networks and experience social togetherness

I preferred it when it was more bomb-making.

Is there an anarchist LinkedIn?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Well, you live and learn. According to somebody on Twitter called Anarcho-Syndicalist Gamer our man here 'participated in first Balkan anarchist bookfair in 2003'

He helped make the vegan sausage rolls apparently. And sold some books I am sure.

I pity the fool who tries to expropriate books off Bonanno’s table.

 

[The39thStep]

Anarchist bookfair, anarchist bookfair, anarchist bookfair.

They fucking invented networking didn't they?



I preferred it when it was more bomb-making.

Is there an anarchist LinkedIn?

Think Herbert Read is in charge of it

 

[hitmouse]

That's me that is. (Sort of - I'm a trauma specialist with a passing interest in insurrection, anarchistic or not).

So go on then, try me

Does Armed Willingness do anything for you, or is that a "you had to be there" one?

 

[hitmouse]

He helped make the vegan sausage rolls apparently.

"How do you make a vegan sausage roll?" definitely sounds like the set-up for a joke, admittedly probably a somewhat laboured one.

 

[phildwyer]

It's probably worth noting there is a Bonanno crime family, which is one of the original five New York Mafia families, but they're not related afaik.

Their capo was known as Joe Bananas.

 

[GroovySunday]

Only just seen this thread. 86 is a good innings and he lived his life to the full and did what he wanted to do (and put his neck on the line), leaving behind some good writings aswell. Rest in power

 

[Dom Traynor]

Ice cream family in Ancoats. Big rival to Granelli's.

Alfredo Bonano had an ice cream parlour in Cheadle for a few years while on the run from the Italian police.