Another fash bites the dust!

[codinghorror]

Wait so this is your point?

@caze

Antifa are scum, the fact that their current US incarnation is not as bad, for the moment at least, as the far right in America isn’t particularly reassuring. And if the history of the movement is anything to go by, things could get a lot worse (e.g. the antifa run by the German Communist party in 30s played a big role in helping the Nazis come to power, both by helping sway public opinion for the Nazis, and by directly opposing the SPD - radicals opposing centrists and liberals today is just as big a threat as it was back then), also see their links to criminal and terrorist activity in latter half of the 20th century across Europe.

Radical socialism and anarchism are just as intellectually and morally bankrupt as Nazism and fascism, with a far greater body count on the side of the socialists to boot (anarchists seem to be pretty useless at least, so I guess they’re less of a threat). They all need to be resisted equally.

How is “antifa” either radical socialsm or anarchism, though?

I mean I guess if people are saying “Trump is on the same path as Nazi germany” then you could technically say “antifa is on the same path as Nazi germany”?

Except I’m quite sure nobody in US antifa is an actual communist… that seems like an important distinction to make. I got the impression they were mostly opposed to far right figures here, with no particular ideology other than “these other guys suck and need to be resisted”?