The true essence of the 'antifascism' that is being promoted by the far-left

In the West, it is common to hear statements from the far left justifying violence in the name of "antifascism".

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A pretext for violence from a left wing that supports dictatorships

According to these arguments, far-left political violence is justified because it is directed against fascists, identified as violent and intolerant people who hate democracy. In reality, this violence, intolerance, and hatred of democracy are a common denominator of both the far left and the far right. In these respects, there is nothing more similar to a fascist than a communist, and vice versa. In fact, there are no longer any fascist dictatorships today, but there are communist dictatorships, which receive the support of leftist parties without any attempt at concealment.

Seven years ago I already explained here the origin of so-called "antifascism", a strategy developed by the Communist International controlled by the dictator Stalin to whitewash communism and unite the left around the leadership of the communists. From its very beginnings, antifascism was a violent movement that even resorted to terrorism, with cases such as the "Antifascist Workers' and Peasants' Militias" (MAOC), the armed wing of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) between 1933 and 1937. This strategy continued decades later with terrorist groups of communist ideology such as the FRAP (Revolutionary Antifascist and Patriotic Front, created in 1973) and the GRAPO (First of October Antifascist Resistance Groups, in 1975).

A strategy to attack anyone who disagrees with the left

It must be said that, fortunately, today classical fascism is a residual phenomenon with no parliamentary representation. That totalitarian movement was clearly defeated in the Second World War and, in the case of Nazism, the Holocaust exposed its abominable crimes to the entire world, turning adjectives like "fascist" or "Nazi" into ways of describing despicable people. However, despite the fall of Marxist totalitarianism and having killed more than 100 million people (a figure unsurpassed by any other political movement in the history of humanity), communism is still present in the democratic institutions of several countries, and in the case of Spain it even has two representatives in Pedro Sánchez's government.

This explains why communism has continued to use the "antifascism" catch-all just as it did almost a century ago, when Stalin went so far as to label his rivals on the left, the social democrats, as "social fascists." This communist method of stigmatizing dissent is still being applied today by the left, in a very crude way and with absolute contempt for the truth, labeling as "fascist" anyone who defends democratic ideas simply because they don't coincide with leftist dogmas. In fact, one of the causes of the emergence of a new right wing that does not submit to these dogmas is the weariness of many democrats towards that visceral leftist intolerance, which tries to impose a single way of thinking on the whole of society.

A carte blanche to harass, threaten, assault, and even kill

Thus, today "antifascism" does not consist of opposing fascism, which was its pretext when it emerged in the interwar period (a thesis that did not prevent all kinds of alliances between fascists and communists, such as the one that provoked the outbreak of the Second World War with the invasion of Poland by the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin, after a secret agreement to divide up several European countries.

In reality, just as in the last century, "antifascism" is intended as a carte blanche to harass, threaten, assault, and even kill anyone who disagrees with the left. In fact, the vast majority of victims of "antifascism" had nothing to do with either fascism or Nazism. In reality, the far left uses this excuse to justify its violence and crimes, automatically labeling any victim of its intolerance a "fascist"— a red and extremely violent version of McCarthyism that is routinely carried out by gangs of hooded thugs, whose victims are almost always people who believe in democracy but have committed the "crime" of not agreeing with the left on any given issue.

A movement as violent and intolerant as the fascism it claims to hate

Of course, we are not talking about the behavior of a democratic movement: "antifascism" is as totalitarian, antidemocratic, violent, and intolerant as the fascism it claims to hate. In fact, both movements share an absolute contempt for freedom of expression, political pluralism, ideological freedom, and other characteristics of liberal democracies. The purpose of "antifascism" is not to defend democracy, but to destroy it from within, preventing the normal debate of ideas and using fear and violence to impose its ideas on others. A democracy cannot be indifferent to this form of crime: it must actively combat it, because if it does not, we risk ending up subjected to unscrupulous thugs, as irrational and dangerous as any gang of Nazi skinheads.

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