Antifa and their associates could be wiped out in a weekend, and will be if the misstep.
Their flag hails from the fascist Russian National Bolshevick party, a communist-Nazi offshoot making no effort to hide that it is a comprehensive form of fascism in fascist means to fascist ends with leftist historicist cosmetic flavors.
Call them what they are.. the Red Horde.
Telling it just like it is.
Yet the liberals are so afraid to condemn ANTIFA.
Stalin killed far MORE people than Hitler did; for starters.
Secondly, The Nazis were LEFTIES....NOT something on the "right" !
And there is a great deal of other spurious claptrap in this mind numbingly uneducated spew.
I reject the notion that fascism is right-wing by default. We are seeing left-wing fascism going on right before our very eyes all over this great land of ours.
Huh?
The radical, criminal left....by any other name....
Remember Eric Clanton, the Berkeley BIKE LOCK MAN..?
He just got charged with F-O-U-R counts of assault with a deadly weapon..!!!!
OMG that’s fantastic..!
That’s a major part of his life just GONE, right there.
Erm, the Soviet Union was the Communist Party (CPSU), one and the same.
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Just posting a couple threads. This is terrorism. IMO relevant to terrorism in the Middle East. So despite the fact that I rarely find time to post outdoors articles, more fun and will post one about the guy who jumped into a bear cage at a zoo later to feed the bear milk. Worked out as well as legitimizing violent left wing protests, intended to change government policy, as protest against policies of the nation, though primarily democrats, a century and a half ago.
Antifa is a violent left wing organization.
In May, the Weimer Republic banned the Rotfrontkämpferbund. The Communist militia. Every political party should have an armed militia. By July a new militia formed, to fight the fascist Nazis. Antifaschistische Aktion. So many letters. They lasted less than a year, given Hitlers assumption of power.
Antifaschistische Aktion, a violent (yes, politics was violent in Germany) Communist military group.
While I don't much remember fascist governments in the 1980s, wrong decade, they must have been there, because amongst other anti fascist groups, the Badr Meinhoff gang comes to mind. And so along comes Antifa, who I believe took their name from Antifaschistische Aktion, violent communism. Not an acronym from some constellation. Anti-fascists. Not communists.
So here we are.
Proper condemnation of Nazi (the neo thing is nonsense), who's day is gone for now. Though the radical left will boost their support.
Radical violent left wing terrorists. With a track record of violence in Europe. And in the US. And even mainstream Republicans are afraid to acknowledge what's in front of their face.
I may include a few posts on the topic on my list. I've learned not to get into Civil War stuff here, but that's not what it's about. Any more than it's about fascism. It is about left wing political violence. They're way better at it than right wing nutballs. You'll note both of these articles are prior to last weekends violence. And I'll post about the bear later. The Roots of Left-Wing Violence-A vague and dangerous ideology
The ways things stand today; you may reject, repudiate, and denounce the neo-Nazis, KKK, and White Supremacists. But if you also reject, repudiate, and denounce the AntiFa and their Roter Frontkämpferbund thugs, you are presumed the support the former.
Yes, Antifa is a bunch of degenerate commie drug addicts and queers. They are exactly like the people who inspired reactionary movements in Spain, Chile, and elsewhere.
I just find it simply amazing that, in light of what happened in Charlottesville, ANTIFA can show up was initially a peaceful rally, prepared to fight. They had helmets, bats, and homemade flame throwers. They were fighting everyone. They were throwing rocks, sticks, bottles at anyone and everyone. They came there looking for a fight.
Yet, because Pres Trump didn’t really, really, really, really, really didn’t condemn the handful of NeoNazi’s that showed up, he’s the bad guy.
I really wish that someone, with the appropriate resources, would do a legitimate investigation as to how ANTIFA/BLM were able to pay for the buses that took them there, the hotel rooms, the food. the $25/hr protesters, and the NeoNazi’s themselves. I’d really like to find out who some of them are. Wouldn’t surprise me if some, if not all, are just disguised ANTIFA brats, trying to stir it up even more.
And, I’d really like someone to investigate the police. Knowing that the ANTIFA/BLM folks were on one side of the park, why did they force the folks that had the permit, out of the park on that side? I’d really like to know if the cops were truly outgunned, as the governor has suggested. I’d really like to know who gave the standdown order, as the commander of the VSP has stated.
And, I’d love to see someone identify the people in the “Unite the Right” documentary, that Vice did. Something tells me that guy with tiki torches aren’t exactly the Right wing nut jobs, the documentary is purporting them to be. Tiki torches? Really?
But, at the end of the day, if any of the answers to these questions leads us to point the finger at anyone, other than the President, it will be swept under the rug and forgotten about or another “event” will take place to make us forget about it.
“Groups like West Germany’s Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof Gang, America’s Symbionese Liberation Army, Italy’s Red Brigades, Spain’s First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, Portugal’s FP-25, Action Directe in France and the IRA in Britain were left wing terrorist groups who committed numerous atrocities including targeted killings, bombings, kidnappings and torture on a wide scale.”
Left-wing violence in Europe goes back a lot farther than that; the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe was directly in response to the threat of communist revolution in many European countries (Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria). It was no coincidence that many of these countries were allied with the Axis in WWII; they knew what would happen if the communists won.
May be more like the Nazi brown-shirts.
The people forced into the union under the loons in Moscow were not in love with it.
I do not know of any far-right groups of killers. I wonder if the historically-challenged author of this piece can name any?
There is the left. The left organizes itself into violent groups. Whatever they call themselves--socialists, communists, Nazis, Antifa, fascists--they are only different "flavors" of the same underlying leftist ideology. Any member of any of those leftist factions can call any of the other leftist factions "far-right" but that does not make it so. They are all competing for the same followers.
Choosing to support any of those far-left groups is something like choosing which violent street gang to support--Crips? Bloods? M13? They are all worthless thugs.
I find the terms “far-left” and “far-right” to be rather useless, and even counterproductive to understanding society or history. Does anyone else here have a problem with these terms?
The biggest problem for me is that it seems to be an attempt to force every political movement onto a continuum, or spectrum - what are the chances that all human endeavors can be organized along a line?
I’ve heard some suggest it’s a circle to explain why both the left and right extremes converge on the same point - violence. A circle seems almost as absurd and oversimplified as a line - what makes people want to reduce human behavior to simple geometry?
I also think there is another problem with using the prefix “far” with right or left. Namely, that it doesn’t seem like “right” and “far-right” have anything in common.
For example, I’d accept it if someone wanted to call me “right” which I’d take to mean I’m a conservative. But “far-right” seems to be an invention of the left, designed to lump me in with violent nazis, fascists and racists. The implication is that I’m also a nazi, fascist and racist, just not as extreme.
That’s totally false - my conservatism has to do with limiting the power and role of government and empowering the individual. How does it figure that if you turn up the intensity dial on my limited government sentiments, I would become more and more violent, fascist and racist? It doesn’t add up.
Come to think of it, you don’t hear “far-left” as much as you hear “far-right”, so maybe I’ve answered my own question: “far-right” is just a term invented by leftists to tarnish the right by creating a false association between limited government conservatives and nazis, fascists and racists.
Same with alt-right - it’s just a leftist invention.
Anyway, the article makes sense up until the writer starts talking about far-right - then it sounds like a nonsensical attempt to create some sort of moral equivalence between constitutional conservatives and statist liberals.
The two have nothing in common - one protects individual liberties and promotes freedom and self determination, and the other promotes a coercive authoritarianism.
I’d be happy if I never heard “far-right” again.