Posted on 08/02/2020 11:16:05 AM PDT by Pelham
The antifascist left, about which I have just finished writing a book, resembles the Nazis in a striking way, particularly when these earlier advocates of violence were on their way to power. I am drawing this parallel while being fully aware of the qualifications that I am constrained to offer.
I am aware that, unlike the Nazis, American Antifa loathe their own race and nation and are doing everything possible to weaken them. They also favor filling their country with third world immigrants, preferably non-Christian, to change its inherited cultural and ethnic character. Further, these rioters and subversives are working to bring shame on once-celebrated national heroes and call for tearing down their statues and banishing national literatures. As I write, Antifa and BLM have just torn down a statue of George Washington in Portland, Oregon. Elsewhere, Confederate memorial monuments, statues of Columbus, and other tributes to the onetime heroes of my youth are being smashed or defaced.
If all these things are true, then how do antifascists resemble those whom they claim to be combating?
The fact that Antifa claims to be against fascism, and particularly Nazism, certainly does not mean it cannot adopt some of its features from real Nazis.
..Today’s Antifa and its German counterpart are not derived from traditional Marxist ideology, which appeals to a “science of socialism.” Antifa has no rational or even pseudo-rational plans to reconstruct society, but focuses on venting destructive energy against hate targets. In this tendency, Antifa and its riotous allies seem much more like Nazis than communists or generic Marxists. They illustrate what German philosopher Hermann Rauschning regarded as an essential characteristic of the Nazis, which was a “revolution of nihilism” that presumably would go on and on until it eradicated all inherited moral institutions and marks of human civility.
(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclesmagazine.org ...
"Although one might fault the Germans for not having acted decisively enough against a now-obvious danger, what is happening in our country is even more appalling. The reaction to our brutal hellraisers has been virtually nonexistent. And the most pusillanimous response may be the one from authorized conservative celebrities and organizations, which seem to believe that they may quiet the raging storm by shaming those who fought for “the Cause” 150 years ago. I do not believe it’s coincidence that Conservative Inc. has decided to go after all things Confederate while so-called anti-racist rioters are destroying our cities."
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The Anarchist movement, birthed in Portland during the 1990s, has had a long-standing goal of forcing American politics as far left as possible.
The Democrat Party has gave in and now works in tandem with the so-called “antifa” Anarchists.
Fascists while claiming they anti-Fascists. Neat.
Good. Let’s hope they never get smarter and start planning.
The antifascist left,??
They began as Anti First Amendment and Proudly Proclaimed everywhere that Speech was Violence! They came up with ANTIFA, but when they were called out for being Anti First Amendment, they then said that the Speech they claimed was Violence was really Fascist. That is when they changed the definition.
They are nothing but a pack of Rabid Dogs and should be treated as such.
You say you want a revolution, maoist crackers? Be careful what you wish for. American forces may join up here in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MbqzDm1uCo
How does Antifa define fascism?
To them, capitalism equals fascism.
Does it make sense now?
They don’t have a plan because their minds don’t work that way. It’s all about their all-precious self-esteem and instant gratification.
But Trump threatened to declare Antifa a terrorist organization, right? Whatever that means. They seem to be doing just fine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_the_United_States
They are the direct action wing of the Democrat Party. They do not need a plan, just some orders and a bunch of thrill seeking hangers on.
Thanks for posting this. I took some courses from the author at the university circa 1970.
Exactly, they are the DNC’s Sturmabteilung!
A few thousand people who have no end game are doing the violence. This is their peak right now. Their numbers aren’t growing. The localities allowing it are the big losers.
They are no danger to the government.
“I took some courses from the author at the university circa 1970.”
Paul Gottfried is one of my favorites. I always look forward to his essays.
What's actually in the article:
Significantly, a recent film of Antifa meetings by Project Veritas indicates that we are not dealing here with informal groupings of activists as depicted in our mainstream media.
In addition, no Democratic member of Congress will lay a glove on our urban rioters without a multitude of qualifying statements. Progressive Democrats, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, freely raise money for Antifa activities, while Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison proudly posed in a picture with Bray’s Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
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