Kabouters

Kabouters
Named afterKabouter
PredecessorProvos
Formation1969; 55 years ago (1969)
Dissolved1974; 50 years ago (1974)
TypeProtest movement
Location
  • Netherlands
  • Belgium
MethodsAbsurdism
Key people
Websitekabouters.nu

Kabouters (English: Gnomes) were a Dutch anarchist group in the 1970s.

Provos, alongside Kabouters, spread an absurdist, "carnival anarchism" that used provocative tactics, humor, and direct action, to upend cultural norms.[1]

  1. ^ Prichard, Alex; Kinna, Ruth; Pinta, Saku; Berry, David, eds. (2012). Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 407. ISBN 978-0-230-28037-3.