I was simply replying to @KurtOverley - the suggestion for another book "... rise of Woke fascists and their Antifa shock troops. Maybe time for another book?" Chris included the Ennio Flaiano quote in the chapter titled "Hate". I believe this chapter provides clear a explanation and references the supporting evidence that is lacking in …
I was simply replying to @KurtOverley - the suggestion for another book
"... rise of Woke fascists and their Antifa shock troops. Maybe time for another book?"
Chris included the Ennio Flaiano quote in the chapter titled "Hate". I believe this chapter provides clear a explanation and references the supporting evidence that is lacking in my replies.
Below are additional related quotes from "America: the Farewell Tour" (I encourage you to read the book).
"The left is no more immune to these pathologies than the right." pg. 183
"Antifa seeks to justify its violence by arguing that the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s could have been halted if antifascist groups had attacked fascist groups when they were first forming. This is a huge distortion of history." pg. 187
"The violent left revels in the hypermasculinity that enthralls the alt-right." pg. 191
"The focus on street violence diverts activists from the far less glamorous work of building relationships, alternative institutions, and community organizing that alone will make effective resistance possible." pg. 199
"The corporate state seeks to discredit and shut down the anticapitalist left. Its natural allies are the neo-Nazis and the Christian fascists." pg. 200
"There is no moral equivalency between antifa and the alt-right. But by brawling in the streets, antifa allows the corporate state, which is terrified of a popular anticapitalist uprising, to use the false arguments of moral equivalency to criminalize the work of all dissidents." pg. 200
You're right, I haven't read that chapter. But the last paragraph you quoted says it all.
"There is no moral equivalency between antifa and the alt-right. But by brawling in the streets, antifa allows the corporate state, which is terrified of a popular anticapitalist uprising, to use the false arguments of moral equivalency to criminalize the work of all dissidents."
The argument here seems to be only about tactics. Personally I think fighting fascists any way one can takes primacy, while worrying about how the corporate media will paint one's actions is vastly less important. The corporate media will always paint the left's actions negatively anyway, as it is part of the right wing duopoly! If you let worry about how the corporate media depicts one's actions affect what you do you are playing right into their hands.
I was simply replying to @KurtOverley - the suggestion for another book
"... rise of Woke fascists and their Antifa shock troops. Maybe time for another book?"
Chris included the Ennio Flaiano quote in the chapter titled "Hate". I believe this chapter provides clear a explanation and references the supporting evidence that is lacking in my replies.
Below are additional related quotes from "America: the Farewell Tour" (I encourage you to read the book).
"The left is no more immune to these pathologies than the right." pg. 183
"Antifa seeks to justify its violence by arguing that the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s could have been halted if antifascist groups had attacked fascist groups when they were first forming. This is a huge distortion of history." pg. 187
"The violent left revels in the hypermasculinity that enthralls the alt-right." pg. 191
"The focus on street violence diverts activists from the far less glamorous work of building relationships, alternative institutions, and community organizing that alone will make effective resistance possible." pg. 199
"The corporate state seeks to discredit and shut down the anticapitalist left. Its natural allies are the neo-Nazis and the Christian fascists." pg. 200
"There is no moral equivalency between antifa and the alt-right. But by brawling in the streets, antifa allows the corporate state, which is terrified of a popular anticapitalist uprising, to use the false arguments of moral equivalency to criminalize the work of all dissidents." pg. 200
You're right, I haven't read that chapter. But the last paragraph you quoted says it all.
"There is no moral equivalency between antifa and the alt-right. But by brawling in the streets, antifa allows the corporate state, which is terrified of a popular anticapitalist uprising, to use the false arguments of moral equivalency to criminalize the work of all dissidents."
The argument here seems to be only about tactics. Personally I think fighting fascists any way one can takes primacy, while worrying about how the corporate media will paint one's actions is vastly less important. The corporate media will always paint the left's actions negatively anyway, as it is part of the right wing duopoly! If you let worry about how the corporate media depicts one's actions affect what you do you are playing right into their hands.