A short piece, intended to clear the air.
If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. – William B. Fuckley
Antifa shows up ready to rumble; the fascists show up ready to kill. – Raven Onthill
Well, yes, antifa exists. It’s this little tiny far left party of mostly anarchists, with some communists (yes, real communists) thrown in for spice. They are largely pacific, and their main activity is identifying and exposing white supremacists, nazis, and so on–the “fash”–but mostly they’re the sort of anarchist that will find you a meal and a place to stay. They are, in other words, no threat to anyone except Nazis and white supremacists. Even “party” is debatable; being largely anarchists, they have little organization outside of (multiple, argumentative) local groups.
How did they get their reputation?
Many moons ago… (um, sorry.)
In Germany, in the 1930s, the KPD, the German Communist party, adopted antifascism as a policy focus. They were, in this, disingenuous; the most effective response to fascism they could have mounted was to form a coalition with the SPD, Germany’s democratic socialist party but, instead, they called the SPD “social fascists” and the NSDAP, the Nazis, came to power. But the slogan “Antifa,” a truncation of “Antifaschistische Aktion,” survived and was picked up by various far left groups over the years, including the current antifa. This history is told by Mark Bray in his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. But that is not the antifa that the Trump administration inveighs against, that is some imagined giant threat to American, that was recently given near-life sentences by a crank Texas judge for having the wrong politics, that antifa does not exist, except in the minds of political opportunists and people with persecutory delusions, of which there are far too many; that antifa is Glonzo.
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