I noticed the ANTIFA name has been tossed around quite a bit but I didnt know anyone in the group. I heard Drumpf wanted to define them as a terrorist group so I immediately begin to like them and my interest in them grew even more. Well I met one today at work. Hes a white guy and he filled me in. Drumpf doesnt have a ******* clue who and what they are. I saw this posted online and felt that it was pretty close to what I learned today. I thought it may help clear up some of the confusion created by the lies of the right wing.
Lose the leftwing bullshit. Here they are.
The Lost History of Antifa
he origins of the word “antifa” — shorthand for decentralized, militant street activism associated with its own aesthetic and subculture — might be murky to most readers. Even in Germany, few know much about the popular forms of antifascist resistance that coined the term.
The movement’s short but inspiring political legacy proved too uncomfortable for both Cold War-era German states, and was ignored in schools and mainstream history. Today its legacy is almost entirely lost to the Left.
Out of the Ruins
By 1945, Hitler’s Third Reich lay physically destroyed and politically exhausted. Basic civil society ceased to function in many areas, as the Nazi grip on power faltered and regime supporters, particularly in the middle- and upper classes, realized that Hitler’s “final victory” was a fantasy.
On the Left, many Communists and Social Democrats had either been outright murdered by the Nazis, or died in the ensuing war. The unimaginable human and material destruction wrought by Nazi rule killed millions and turned German society upside down, decimating the labor movement and murdering most of the country’s Jewish population. Millions who had supported or at least acquiesced to the regime — including many workers and even some former socialists — now faced a new beginning in unknown political terrain.
Yet despite its
failure to stop Hitler in 1933 and
veritable dismantling in subsequent years, Germany’s socialist labor movement and its decidedly progressive traditions outlived Hitler in the factories of its industrial cities, and began gathering up the fragments as soon as open political activity became possible. As
historian Gareth Dale describes:
72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
www.jacobinmag.com
Nig you aren't american.
Did you say I could post the messages?
