What is ANTIFA?

In today’s episode I invited a Facebook friend (and fellow Rotarian) into the studio to have a discussion about what is ANTIFA and what are they fighting for.  More importantly, we discuss how how America can over come the issues caused by the radical anarchists that are tearing up our cities.

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Russell Facebook Post:

Antifa means "Anti-Fascist", right? So to oppose Antifa means you're "pro-Fascist", right?

In order to answer this question, we should make sure we're using the same definition of the word "Fascist." Are we though?

Most of us think of the academic use of the term, as defined by Benito Mussolini, the first Fascist, who was separating his brand of totalitarianism from the Communist brand he had previously agitated for. It's something like this:

"Everything Within the State, Nothing Against the State, Nothing Outside the State"

1."Everything in the state". The Government is supreme and the country is all-encompassing, and all within it must conform to the ruling body, often a dictator.

2."Nothing outside the state". The country must grow and the implied goal of any fascist nation is to rule the world, and have every human submit to the government.

3."Nothing against the state". Any type of questioning the government is not to be tolerated. If you do not see things our way, you are wrong. If you do not agree with the government, you cannot be allowed to live and taint the minds of the rest of the good citizens.

[Side Note: The completely democratic Urban Dictionary was the source of the descriptions of the three maxims of Fascism, because dictionaries and Wikipedia have intentionally obfuscated the meaning.]

Most Americans are definitely against this kind of fascism. We usually think of the Nazi regime as "Fascist" so we think of Anti-Fascist as "Anti-Nazi".

When Antifa says they are "Anti-Fascist", they're not talking about opposing this classical definition of Fascism.

Antifa has re-defined "Fascism" to mean liberal democracy and capitalism.

Are you anti-democracy and anti-capitalism? If you are for political and economic freedom, you oppose Antifa's ideology. It's not correct to say you support Antifa if you support self-rule, voting, and free market voluntary trade.

I'm sure you're skeptical. The deceptive propaganda campaign carried out by the Antifa movement and amplified by the Mafia Media has hidden this fact.

Example: https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-antifa-trump.html

Example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-antifa/

"The fight against fascism is only won when the capitalist system has been shattered and a classless society has been achieved," according to the German Antifa group, Antifaschistischer Aufbau München.

"The basic philosophy of Antifa focuses on the battle between three basic forces: fascism, racism and capitalism - all three of which are interrelated according to Antifa... with fascism being considered the final expression or stage of capitalism, capitalism being a means to oppress, and racism being an oppressive mechanism related to fascism."

- Matthew Knouff, author of An Outsider's Guide to Antifa: Volume II

"After the left has pocketed the concept of liberalism and turned the word into the opposite of its original meaning, the Antifa-movement uses a false terminology to hide its true agenda. While calling themselves 'antifascist' and declaring fascism the enemy, the Antifa itself is a foremost fascist movement.

"The members of Antifa are not opponents to fascism but themselves its genuine representatives. Communism, Socialism and Fascism are united by the common band of anti-capitalism and anti-liberalism.

"The Antifa movement is a fascist movement. The enemy of this movement is not fascism but liberty, peace and prosperity."

Essay: "What Antifa and the Original Fascists Have In Common" by Antony Mueller, a German professor of economics who currently teaches in Brazil

GDR authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall).

The 2016 annual report by Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), notes the same point: From the viewpoint of the “left-wing extremist,” the label of “fascism” as pushed by Antifa often does not refer to actual fascism, but is merely a label assigned to “capitalism.”

https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/.../verfassungsschutzber...

This article does a good job of reaching out to many sources to clearly define what Fascism means to Antifa activists.

https://www.counterpunch.org/.../the-anti-capitalist.../

Understanding Antifa’s definition of “Fascism” helps to understand why on inauguration day, Antifa rioted and burned parts of Portland in protest of Biden’s presidency. Why? Because Biden represents democracy, and free market capitalism, just like Trump did. There is no difference between “Trump is fascist” and “Biden is fascist” to these people.

Conflating “Anti-Fascism” with “I don’t like Trump” was a good tactic for generating support in the form of government protection and funding, even though it was intentionally misleading.

So I ask, do you support Antifa using their definition of being against Fascism?

If someone doesn’t support Antifa because they are pro free people and free markets, does that make them a Fascist?