An Intimate History of Antifa

New Yorker ^

[ameribbean expat]

Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present—a project that he calls “history, politics, and theory on the run.” Antifa activists don’t often speak to the media, but Bray is a former Occupy Wall Street organizer and an avowed leftist; he has intimate access to his subjects, if not much critical distance from them. Especially in later chapters of the book, that access helps him to provide an unusually informed account of how antifa members conceptualize their disruptive and sometimes violent methods.

[Biggirl]

Did this hate group not start in Europe?

[TexasGator]

Same old faces. Just a new name.

[Texas resident]

They are lead by community organizers.

Hmmm. Who do we know was a community organizer. And probably still is.

[Yulee]

“Hmmm. Who do we know was a community organizer. And probably still is.”

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Always has been, even while in office. A Socialist Agitator to the core. that civilian force he talked about during the early days of his administration has taken the form of OWS, BLM, Antifa, and the Neo-Nazis. All in an effort to create the same conditions that existed in the Weimar Republic prior to Hitler taking power.

[roses of sharon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G8QLT6tFWU

18 Months Of Left-Wing Violence

[Salamander]

https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/howtoantifa-revised.pdf

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Communist in the 1930s, communist today. Same flag and all.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/antifascist-movements-hitler-nazis-kpd-spd-germany-cold-war

[Titus-Maximus]

Be distrustful of the New Yorker, it created Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[Slyfox]

Real Anti-Fascists

[Undecided 2012]

I like that, good job

[Nifster]

Yes it did. They were commies in Germany in the 1940s

[TigersEye]

Antifa

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's getting particularly difficult now that the throbbing hot red ends of both sides are more and more unapologetically into "FEELZ B4 REALZ." And, as you noted, they resort to ballbat words and deeds because that's how they express how "important" their issue is and how deep those "FEELZ" really go.

Except now it's not just the "throbbing red hot ends," it's the collapse of the middle and the the co-optation of all the institutions. The print, broadcast, and digital media (we're talking global corporations) are openly abandoning any pretense of disciplined nonpartisanship. They're all throwing bottles of urine now.

I'm ever deeper into the contemptus mundi.

[kaehurowing]

They are the American branch of a far left European group, originally a pre World War III violent Communist terror group in Germany, is my understanding. Essentially a leftwing version of the Nazis. Then parts of their group like the Baader Meinhof Gang killed a lot of people in Germany in the Sixties and Seventies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[poconopundit]

Comrade Boobamba and his Brown Shirts probably would have gone all the way were it not for those “bitter” ones out there who cling to their God and their guns.