A good reminder, we all used to be Antifa. Funny how now days, if you say you’re anti-fascist the right wing immediately says you must be on the left then. Interesting what that reveals about them
There is nothing glorious about Antifa, Warden, nor is Antifa’s origin anti-fascist as you presume it to be. Antifa is of communist origin created in Germany during the 20’s and 30’s in opposition to the German Social Democrat Party. Antifa’s aim, as it was directed from Moscow, was to oppose capitalism. It labeled any party that supported capitalism as fascists, even other leftist German parties, but in particular the Social Democrats, a leftist party, that defended Weimar Germany. Antifa supported Hitler’s rise to power inasmuch as it perceived Hitler as a part of the dialectic whose synthesis would eventually lead to Marxist socialism. Here Moscow and the original Antifa miscalculated.
Antifa today however perceives facism to be the traditional and purported hate-filled beliefs held by conservative Americans. In so doing, they align themselves with radical civil rights movements, encouraging illegal immigration, supporting Islamic extremists, disdaining capitalism, and sewing discord in America through terrorism. Antifa supports liberal Democrat causes. IMO, many of its followers however are nihilists who have convinced themselves that Trump is worse than Hitler, or even Satan for that matter. Antifa believe anyone who disagrees with their radical ideas is a fascist, which is disimilar from its original anti-capitalism stance held in pre-war Germany.
Time for Trump to put the quietous on Antifa by undercutting its financial support and jailing terrorists.
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