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Both Atomwaffen/neo nazis and antifa bring terror to the public, it´s that easy. You can´t tell me antifa isn´t a terror group, when they set fire and beat up citizens. Both groups are equal in the sense of they bring terror to the public, that counts, nothing else. Just because they name themselfes "Atomwaffen", does not mean they have them available.
I'm not going to lie. The apologists and deflections make me want to leave this site. We're slipping more and more towards Nazi ideology being acceptable and no one notices.
My point is, they are terrorists just like nazis, because they bring terror to the public.
Keep on exchanging one evil for the other.
I'll take what I can get to keep the civil society intact, sure.
Antifascism has surged to the fore of debates on the American left under Trump’s presidency, and many of the tactics and visual styles of the German Antifa can be seen emerging in cities like Berkeley and elsewhere. Some argue that with the arrival of European-style neo-fascist movements on American shores, it is also time to import European Antifa tactics in response.
Yet the Antifa of today is not a product of a political victory from which we can draw our own strength, but of defeat — socialism’s defeat at the hands of Nazism and resurgent global capitalism, and later the exhaustion of the autonomist movement in the wake of the neoliberal turn and the sweeping gentrification of many German cities..
Yet the Antifa of today is not a product of a political victory from which we can draw our own strength, but of defeat...
One of the biggest antifascist campaigns in Germany in recent years was the, ultimately successful, effort to block the annual Nazi-rallies in the east German city of Dresden in Saxony, which had grown into "Europe's biggest gathering of Nazis".