An autonome is a person who regards herself belonging to
autonomous movement. (I think that) the roots of autonomous movement are in
Italy but nowadays the
movement is considerably strong throughout the
Europe, especially in Germany and Italy. It's quite impossible to define autonomes precisely without making
illegal generalizations. Generally we could only say that an autonome is an
antagonist subject; opposing the state and
capitalist system. Also the vigorously
non-hierarchical structure of
organization is a defining character among the autonomes.
Autonomian movement has absorbed different characteristics from different countries and from the different continuations of social
culture -- even though autonomes themselves would reject this kind of "
weak sociology" in their own analyses..
In Italy they once called themselves
communists but they were from non-
stalinist tendency having close relations with
anarchists. In
Germany they are nowadays closely linked with
Anti-Fascist Action. Some autonomes you were able to spot in
Gothenburg, Sweden June 2001 with
black masks and all..