The Real History Antifa

If it doesn't fit in any of the other forums, post it here!
Post Reply
User avatar
Big_mike
Posts: 153
Joined: Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:10 pm
Location: Longwood

The Real History Antifa

Post by Big_mike »

For those curious, I read a pretty detailed history of the Antifa movement and it's history in America.

It's an interesting read, written by Kyle Shideler, the director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy.

https://americanmind.org/essays/the-rea ... -zmmtZ9zaU
The dark history of the radical Left's enforcement arm.

With riots and civil unrest metastasizing across the United States, the president declared he intends to designate Antifa as a terrorist group. Predictably, the talking heads rushed out to declare that Antifa doesn’t really exist, and even if it did the president couldn’t possibly target it using that legal designation. They argue Antifa is an amorphous blob of discontents, not a functioning organization, and certainly not one which could be designated and targeted for concentrated counterterrorism enforcement.

As usual, the Twitterati don’t know what they are talking about. Reality is both simpler and more complex.

To begin at the beginning: Antifa—real name: Antifaschisitsche Aktion—was born during the street-fights of the 1932 Weimar Republic. It was founded by the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD), although various Communist “anti-fascist defense” units were associated with the KPD much earlier.

Anti-fascist Action’s sole purpose was to help the KPD combat other political parties for control of the streets in the revolutionary politics of the rapidly failing Weimar Republic.

And yes, they fought the Nazis.

.....
User avatar
Bmup
Posts: 283
Joined: Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:59 pm
Location: Boca Raton

Post by Bmup »

Very interesting essay. Most of which I never knew but the history & timeline all makes perfect sense. I also didn't know about The American Mind https://americanmind.org/ or the Claremont Institute https://www.claremont.org/page/claremonts-mission/ but I've added both to my must-read online news sources.

Thanks Mike
"No society ever thrived because it had a large group of parasites living off those who produce." - Dr. Thomas Sowell
User avatar
Big_mike
Posts: 153
Joined: Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:10 pm
Location: Longwood

Post by Big_mike »

Bmup wrote: Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:31 am Very interesting essay. Most of which I never knew but the history & timeline all makes perfect sense. I also didn't know about The American Mind https://americanmind.org/ or the Claremont Institute https://www.claremont.org/page/claremonts-mission/ but I've added both to my must-read online news sources.

Thanks Mike
If you haven't heard the buzz about this interview yet, Joe Rogan interviewed Bret Weinstein, an American biologist and evolutionary theorist who came to national attention during the 2017 Evergreen State College protests.

Bret provides an in-depth sobering account of how we got where we are and where we're going from here. He very publicly predicted all of the things we are seeing unfold and more.

It's a long interview and I had to watch it in stints to get through it, Bret's articulation is exquisite.

Post Reply