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Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
by Mark Bray
Mask up and read this!
A history of the movement known as Antifa from the Dreyfus Affair to just before Charlottesville, plus a rundown of the justifications for it (with a whole chapter debunking the free speech myths that surrounding the fight) , and a look at what tactics/strategy work best.
Book provides these five historical lessons for Anti-Fascists:
1. FASCIST REVOLUTIONS HAVE NEVER SUCCEEDED. FASCISTS GAINED POWER LEGALLY.
2. TO VARYING DEGREES, MANY INTERWAR ANTI-FASCIST LEADERS AND THEORISTS ASSUMED THAT FASCISM WAS SIMPLY A VARIANT OF TRADITIONAL COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY POLITICS. THEY DID NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY ENOUGH UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.
3. FOR IDEOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL REASONS, SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP WAS OFTEN SLOWER TO ACCURATELY ASSESS THE THREAT OF FASCISM, AND SLOWER TO ADVOCATE MILITANT ANTI-FASCIST RESPONSES, THAN THEIR PARTIES’ RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERSHIP.
4. FASCISM STEALS FROM LEFT IDEOLOGY, STRATEGY, IMAGERY, AND CULTURE.
5. IT DOESN’T TAKE THAT MANY FASCISTS TO MAKE FASCISM.
A history of the movement known as Antifa from the Dreyfus Affair to just before Charlottesville, plus a rundown of the justifications for it (with a whole chapter debunking the free speech myths that surrounding the fight) , and a look at what tactics/strategy work best.
Book provides these five historical lessons for Anti-Fascists:
1. FASCIST REVOLUTIONS HAVE NEVER SUCCEEDED. FASCISTS GAINED POWER LEGALLY.
2. TO VARYING DEGREES, MANY INTERWAR ANTI-FASCIST LEADERS AND THEORISTS ASSUMED THAT FASCISM WAS SIMPLY A VARIANT OF TRADITIONAL COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY POLITICS. THEY DID NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY ENOUGH UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE.
3. FOR IDEOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL REASONS, SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP WAS OFTEN SLOWER TO ACCURATELY ASSESS THE THREAT OF FASCISM, AND SLOWER TO ADVOCATE MILITANT ANTI-FASCIST RESPONSES, THAN THEIR PARTIES’ RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERSHIP.
4. FASCISM STEALS FROM LEFT IDEOLOGY, STRATEGY, IMAGERY, AND CULTURE.
5. IT DOESN’T TAKE THAT MANY FASCISTS TO MAKE FASCISM.