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Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
The Conversation ^ | August 29, 2017 | Troy Whitford

Posted on 06/05/2020 7:15:53 AM PDT by richardtavor

Anti-fascist action, more popularly known as “antifa”, can be best described as international socialism on amphetamines. Driven by progressive ideology and “workers’ rights”, it has adopted violence and intimidation as a tactic to quash conservatives and nationalists – in Australia, Europe and, most recently, the US.

Antifa, or militant progressives, have always existed and flourished in democracies. Militant progressives were part of the the 1960s and 1970s counter-culture, and were active during the anti-globalisation protests of the 1990s and 2000s.

It is difficult to accurately state when antifa began. It is more of an evolution of progressive militancy than a birth.


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KEYWORDS: antifa; antifahistory
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Know your enemy in order to defeat him. The enemy is the same. Antifa has always been with us. EVERYTHING has been planned in advance, long before Covid, long before racial tensions were brought to the forefront, again. If they are trying to advance the insurgency, they are winning until we fight back. This year, there have been 12 blacks unarmed blacks killed (NYT generously says that unarmed means that they don't have a gun in their hand, even if it is laying on the seat of the car). We have had 23 Law Enforcement officers killed by gunfire. So, the police are losing the battle. And the liberal mayors want them eliminated? So more officers can be killed?
1 posted on 06/05/2020 7:15:53 AM PDT by richardtavor
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Huntington Beach Locals Beat the Crap Out of Antifa Terrorists and Send Them Running For Their Lives (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/huntington-beach-locals-beat-crap-antifa-terrorists-send-running-lives-video/


2 posted on 06/05/2020 7:20:00 AM PDT by Norski
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Evidence points to Antifa being the re-branded Muslim Brotherhood. Makes a lot of sense. Minneapolis has been a hotbed for the MLB for a long time. It would also explain why Antifa is so well trained and funded and successful with encrypted communication.


3 posted on 06/05/2020 7:21:46 AM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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They are communists, plain and simple.


4 posted on 06/05/2020 7:22:48 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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The Guardian has an article saying white activists were very active in Minneapolis.

Two miles of Lake Street have been savaged.

Booze was stolen by the shopping cart and car trunk-full.


5 posted on 06/05/2020 7:22:50 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The police are the only thing keeping the leftists alive, they should be grateful for their presence.


6 posted on 06/05/2020 7:24:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Where do evil douchebags like the shits in AntiFa come from?

Universities ... where else?


7 posted on 06/05/2020 7:25:25 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I suspect leftist colleges professors are to blame indirectly.


8 posted on 06/05/2020 7:27:14 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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In a riot shoot the white rioters first: you’re more likely to kill a commie than some ordinary thug out for free stuff and wrecking his own neighborhood.

... also it won’t make black rioters any madder.


9 posted on 06/05/2020 7:28:02 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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The Plot Against America – Secret History Of ANTIFA & British Intelligence

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3852206/posts


10 posted on 06/05/2020 7:28:37 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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“””””The Guardian has an article saying white activists were very active in Minneapolis.

Two miles of Lake Street have been savaged.

Booze was stolen by the shopping cart and car trunk-full.””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

I live not too far from there. As a resident honky why was I not notified that my white privilege could get me free liquor on Lake Street?


11 posted on 06/05/2020 7:28:42 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Brian Griffin

Directly


12 posted on 06/05/2020 7:29:01 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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It’s another George Soros production. “Occupy” and other left-wing domestic terrorists organizations failed. ANTIFA was resurrected from the 1932 Germany ANTIFA and used to model the American ANTIFA, which is also trying to gain footholds in Europe.

They recruit lonely nerd loser types, typically unemployed, living at home or living 5-10 to an apartment. They recruit the underachiever types that have nothing better to do and lots of time on their hands. They have been shown to have glass jaws and get knocked out with a single punch. They are rarely anything but scrawny nerds dressed in black and believe the comic book characters they think they are modeled after; the heroic, strong, and mysterious villain whose fight the evil ‘establishment’.


13 posted on 06/05/2020 7:30:25 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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When the devil breeds with DemocRATS...


14 posted on 06/05/2020 7:31:45 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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The tactics came from Weimar-era Germany and the 1968 riots.


15 posted on 06/05/2020 7:32:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Truth ...


16 posted on 06/05/2020 7:36:09 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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I think Germany but I also think controlled by the Russians.
Throw in some bored billionaires who finance it and gov’t people who steal money from the taxpayers and direct the money to groups trying to destroy the United States and other countries.
The old saying: Some people just want the world to burn


17 posted on 06/05/2020 7:40:35 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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"what is antifa, and where did it come from?"

The name of the organization is pure liberish.
18 posted on 06/05/2020 7:45:05 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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‘I suspect leftist colleges professors are to blame indirectly.’

I think hat was what Lara Logan was implying last nite on Hannity! Boy she had the info on this whole thing!


19 posted on 06/05/2020 7:49:09 AM PDT by ldish (2020 Election will determind if USA remains a Consitutional Republic!)
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"Militant progressives were part of the the 1960s and 1970s counter-culture, and were active during the anti-globalisation protests of the 1990s and 2000s."

This is a conundrum, because Antifa detests the anti-globalist, pro-American-worker vision of Trump. Perhaps it is just a sign of their intellectual incoherence and immaturity, as witnessed by the fact that many pose as "anarchists" because they like the sound of the word, or are attracted to its historical resonance of derring-do, but in reality they seem to be extreme statists, the exact opposite of anarchists.
20 posted on 06/05/2020 7:51:00 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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