Three reasons that Antifa is fascist

You first must understand that the name “Antifa” is intended to convey the idea that this group is anti-fascists. And so, the groups and people they oppose, sometimes with extreme violence, they intend to label fascists. And yet, Antifa exhibits the most significant characteristics of fascism…their tactics echo the fascism of the Nazis (short for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party), Mussolini, the totalitarian government of the Communists in the former Soviet Union and the current horror of North Korea.

Consider these marks of fascism:

Violence. The Nazis and the ‘Blackshirts’ of Mussolini’s Italian fascists “used systematic violence, intimidation, beatings, and murder to terrorize political opponents (socialists, communists, liberals), (to) crush dissent.”¹ It doesn’t take much research to find many examples of Antifa violence even though the mainstream media rarely report them. Even a CNN report which stretches credibility to subtly defend Antifa states: “Antifa members also sometimes launch attacks against people who aren’t physically attacking them.” ² Antifa justifies this because they see anyone who disagrees with them as purveyors of “hate speech” and so should be physically attacked. Sounds like Nazis describing the Jews.

Suppression of free speech disagreeing with the Antifa agenda. This is from the Holocaust Encyclopedia: When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights…. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government.³ According to Antifa members any speech disagreeing with them should be suppressed…even with violence. In his book, self-described Antifa “ally”, Dartmouth Professor Mark Bray calls Antifa’s violent suppression of speech “ethical.”⁴

Socialism. According to a BBC report Antifa “activists include anarchists, communists and hardline socialists who broadly share anti-government, anti-capitalist, pro-LGBTQ and pro-immigration views.” Of course, many of these same views were shared by members of the German Nazi party. The salient characteristic of all socialist schemes is a controlled economy. Socialist rhetoric often justifies this by stating that only a controlled economy can be just and fair…in spite of the fact that socialist governments in history have increased, not decreased, poverty. This statement describes modern socialism,

The socialism of the twentieth century was primarily economic in orientation: it rejected capitalism and favored state control over the economy. Individuals had to submit to central economic planning.⁵

Even an article seeking to deny the socialist character of Nazism still must state this: “It is true that the Nazi regime intervened heavily in the economy in the 1930s during the lead-up to the Second World War.”⁶ So the Nazis controlled the economy. Of course, the author doesn’t go on to state the obvious that during the war the Nazis controlled the German state to wage it and support their genocide. The tenor of the article seems to be…yes, the Nazis had a controlled socialist economy, but modern Antifa socialists are not the same because their motives, in the author’s opinion, are pure. It doesn’t take much imagination to see that if Antifa ran the government conservatives would be going to the gas chambers.

We here at I Vote My Vote condemn the deceit and hypocrisy of Antifa and support the sanity that recommends labeling the group as a terror organization. If you show up at an Antifa demonstration and shout your disagreement you may very well be killed.