The Original Tree
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ANTIFA was and is NOTHING BUT A RIVAL OF NAZIS just promoting a different flavor of Totalitarianism.
So when I tell you that THE KKK and other NEO NAZIS are Bait DOGS, and ANTIFA AND BLM are PITBULLS, I am telling you ANTIFA, and THE KKK are part of the same Team. They just don't like each other at all.
They are Rivals wanting to control the same territory and are willing to battle each other for dominance and control of that territory.
Groups like ANTIFA and NEO NAZIS ARE HERE TO SEW SOCIAL DISCORD, DISRUPT DEMOCRACY, ATTACK LAW ENFORCEMENT, and BREAK DOWN THE RULE OF LAW, so that they can forward THEIR LEFTIST AGENDAS.
This is why you sometimes see ANTIFA, carry a SOVIET UNION FLAG, and of course Neo Nazis carry a Nazi Flag. They completely emulate the groups that originally inspired them. Make no Mistake, NEO NAZIS are emulations of NAZI GERMANY, and ANTIFA IS an emulation of THE SOVIET UNION.
Both ANTIFA, and NEO NAZIS are LEFTIST GROUPS who believe in RIGID SOCIAL CONTROLS. They just have major disagreements about what kind of SOCIAL CONTROLS and what TOTALITARIAN SYSTEMS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED TO CONTROL THE MASSES.
NEO NAZIS vs. ANTIFA is like a SICK SIBLING RIVALRY.
Their PRIMARY ENEMY is Freedom, and Democracy. You and Me and THE USA.
See Below....
Antifa rally in 1932/33. Note their logo.
“Antifa” is short for “Antifaschistische Aktion” — antifascist action, or movement.
I have written about their history in more detail here: my answer to “Has Antifa become an anti-free speech movement?”
In short, they were the street arm of the German Communist Party, substituting for an earlier organization (“Roter Frontkämpferbund”), which had been outlawed.
They mirrored the Nazi SA, with whom they brawled and fought in the streets (when both weren't beating up neutral bystanders), until outlawed themselves — this time, not by a democratic government but by their rivals, the Nazis, when they took power in 1933. The movement was resurrected in the 1980s, in the same spirit, with similar goals, but with no armed, jackbooted brownshirts to fight*, so they settled with beating up unarmed protesters and bystanders.
They seem fascinated by their prewar history, to the point where they see Holocausts looming beyond every horizon (in case I need to tell you, thankfully that is not so). This gives them, in their own opinion, the moral authority to throttle all speech they dislike, because — hey, these guys are, like, literally Hitler. And, being far left, everything that's right of the far, far left, is literally Hitler.
As I said, they have a consistent record of beating unarmed, non-Nazi people, calling them Nazis and claiming to have acted in self-defense. I guess that, to an Antifa, the whole world looks like a Fa (either a Nazi or, consistent with Communist jargon**, a Fascist).
This is their history, but one’s origins are not all. Do you want to judge them by their actions? By that token, they are a violent, thuggish anti-free speech movement.
Just a few of their enterprises (list courtesy of Takimag):
“masked Antifa goons in Berkeley have attempted to “shut down” anyone to the right of Leon Trotsky in recent months— burning and throwing bricks and tossing M-80s and beating Trump supporters unconscious in the head with bike locks and pepper-spraying female Trump supporters.”
(original article: The Week That Perished - April 23rd)
Just like the good old days, eh?
*To be perfectly honest, at the beginning they did find one or two Neonazi skinheads to fight with, in 1980s Europe, but they were too few in number to make Antifas happy, so they extended the definition of “Nazi” to include virtually anyone. Everyone’s a Nazi, in their book.
**Soviet Communists decided in 1941 not to call them Nazis, but Fascists: it felt weird having to explain to the Socialist, Soviet masses that they were fighting for their survival against the, well, National Socialists. Especially since this political similarity had been trumpeted in 1939–1941 to make people accept the Nazi-Soviet alliance, which the latter would have loved to keep, but the earlier didn’t.
https://www.quora.com/What-does-ANTIFA-stand-for
So when I tell you that THE KKK and other NEO NAZIS are Bait DOGS, and ANTIFA AND BLM are PITBULLS, I am telling you ANTIFA, and THE KKK are part of the same Team. They just don't like each other at all.
They are Rivals wanting to control the same territory and are willing to battle each other for dominance and control of that territory.
Groups like ANTIFA and NEO NAZIS ARE HERE TO SEW SOCIAL DISCORD, DISRUPT DEMOCRACY, ATTACK LAW ENFORCEMENT, and BREAK DOWN THE RULE OF LAW, so that they can forward THEIR LEFTIST AGENDAS.
This is why you sometimes see ANTIFA, carry a SOVIET UNION FLAG, and of course Neo Nazis carry a Nazi Flag. They completely emulate the groups that originally inspired them. Make no Mistake, NEO NAZIS are emulations of NAZI GERMANY, and ANTIFA IS an emulation of THE SOVIET UNION.
Both ANTIFA, and NEO NAZIS are LEFTIST GROUPS who believe in RIGID SOCIAL CONTROLS. They just have major disagreements about what kind of SOCIAL CONTROLS and what TOTALITARIAN SYSTEMS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED TO CONTROL THE MASSES.
NEO NAZIS vs. ANTIFA is like a SICK SIBLING RIVALRY.
Their PRIMARY ENEMY is Freedom, and Democracy. You and Me and THE USA.
See Below....
Antifa rally in 1932/33. Note their logo.
“Antifa” is short for “Antifaschistische Aktion” — antifascist action, or movement.
I have written about their history in more detail here: my answer to “Has Antifa become an anti-free speech movement?”
In short, they were the street arm of the German Communist Party, substituting for an earlier organization (“Roter Frontkämpferbund”), which had been outlawed.
They mirrored the Nazi SA, with whom they brawled and fought in the streets (when both weren't beating up neutral bystanders), until outlawed themselves — this time, not by a democratic government but by their rivals, the Nazis, when they took power in 1933. The movement was resurrected in the 1980s, in the same spirit, with similar goals, but with no armed, jackbooted brownshirts to fight*, so they settled with beating up unarmed protesters and bystanders.
They seem fascinated by their prewar history, to the point where they see Holocausts looming beyond every horizon (in case I need to tell you, thankfully that is not so). This gives them, in their own opinion, the moral authority to throttle all speech they dislike, because — hey, these guys are, like, literally Hitler. And, being far left, everything that's right of the far, far left, is literally Hitler.
As I said, they have a consistent record of beating unarmed, non-Nazi people, calling them Nazis and claiming to have acted in self-defense. I guess that, to an Antifa, the whole world looks like a Fa (either a Nazi or, consistent with Communist jargon**, a Fascist).
This is their history, but one’s origins are not all. Do you want to judge them by their actions? By that token, they are a violent, thuggish anti-free speech movement.
Just a few of their enterprises (list courtesy of Takimag):
“masked Antifa goons in Berkeley have attempted to “shut down” anyone to the right of Leon Trotsky in recent months— burning and throwing bricks and tossing M-80s and beating Trump supporters unconscious in the head with bike locks and pepper-spraying female Trump supporters.”
(original article: The Week That Perished - April 23rd)
Just like the good old days, eh?
*To be perfectly honest, at the beginning they did find one or two Neonazi skinheads to fight with, in 1980s Europe, but they were too few in number to make Antifas happy, so they extended the definition of “Nazi” to include virtually anyone. Everyone’s a Nazi, in their book.
**Soviet Communists decided in 1941 not to call them Nazis, but Fascists: it felt weird having to explain to the Socialist, Soviet masses that they were fighting for their survival against the, well, National Socialists. Especially since this political similarity had been trumpeted in 1939–1941 to make people accept the Nazi-Soviet alliance, which the latter would have loved to keep, but the earlier didn’t.
https://www.quora.com/What-does-ANTIFA-stand-for
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