{"id":66816,"date":"2026-08-21T06:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66816"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:53:42","slug":"the-fastest-method-for-antifascists-to-identify-and-neutralize-dangerous-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/08\/21\/the-fastest-method-for-antifascists-to-identify-and-neutralize-dangerous-fascists\/","title":{"rendered":"The fastest method for antifascists to identify and neutralize dangerous fascists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago I explained here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/30\/antifascism-the-dark-origin-of-a-crude-disguise-for-far-left-thuggery\/\">the moment and purpose of the birth of so-called antifascism<\/a> in the 1930s.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/08\/01\/20-historical-facts-that-deny-the-idea-of-communism-as-the-great-enemy-of-fascism\/\">20 historical facts that deny the idea of communism as the great enemy of fascism<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/30\/antifascism-the-dark-origin-of-a-crude-disguise-for-far-left-thuggery\/\">'Antifascism': the dark origin of a crude disguise for far-left thuggery<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Basically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/30\/antifascism-the-dark-origin-of-a-crude-disguise-for-far-left-thuggery\/\">the Soviet communist dictator Stalin used antifascism to demonize the social democrats<\/a>, who at the time were major rivals of the communists in interwar Germany. <strong>Stalin labeled the Social Democrats \"social fascists,\"<\/strong> unleashing a campaign of hatred and violence against them that contributed to destabilizing the Weimar Republic and <strong>facilitated the rise to power of National Socialism<\/strong>. The similarity between the two totalitarian movements was so great that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/08\/24\/the-impressive-numbers-of-german-communists-who-joined-the-nazi-party\/\">many German communists ended up joining the Nazi Party<\/a>. Finally, to make clear the similarities between both anti-democratic movements, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/03\/united-by-hatred-of-democracy-a-revealing-telegram-about-the-nazi-soviet-pact-of-1939\/\">Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR ended up allying themselves to invade Poland in 1939<\/a>, demonstrating what truly united them: hatred of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>During the Cold War, <strong>communism used \"antifascism\" to demonize free countries<\/strong>, portraying them as heirs of fascism simply for refusing to submit to communist dictatorships. This explains one of the greatest acts of cynicism of this totalitarian ideology: <strong>the christening of the Berlin Wall, built to prevent people from fleeing a brutal dictatorship<\/strong> \u2014the one established by the USSR in East Germany\u2014<strong> as the \"Antifascist Protection Wall.\"<\/strong> Between 1961 and 1989, <strong>some 140 people were murdered in the name of this \"antifascism\" when they tried to cross the wall to reach freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fascism is today a purely marginal phenomenon, thankfully. That's why <strong>the far-left invents fascists and points them out where they don't exist.<\/strong> The left doesn't care whether the target of its hatred is a genuine fascist or not. In fact, <strong>the vast majority of people attacked by so-called \"antifascists\" are not fascists in the slightest.<\/strong> Many of them are simply people who have done something as legitimate in a democracy as disagreeing with any of the left's ideological dogmas.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, <strong>\"antifascism\" is actually a disguise for the extreme left to violently exercise its intolerance toward differing opinions<\/strong>, an intolerance that often turns with particular ferocity against certain leftists. Let us recall, for example, <strong>the brutal repression against the Trotskyist communists of the POUM by the Stalinist communists of the PCE<\/strong> during the Spanish Civil War, which included the murder of the POUM leader, Andreu Nin, using <strong>a brutal method already employed by the Cheka, the bloodthirsty political police of communist Russia: skinning the prisoner in strips<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is very simple, with the kind of simplicity typical of totalitarian regimes: <strong>If you disagree with the most fanatical left on something, you are labeled a \"fascist,\" and then you become a potential target for aggression or assassination.<\/strong> It doesn't matter if you detest fascism and its methods (violent methods, by the way, identical to those of the extreme left). <strong>Being gratuitously labeled a \"fascist\" makes you someone who, in the eyes of the left, deserves a beating.<\/strong> It's a way of preventing debate that is unacceptable in a democracy. In fact, <strong>with this way of demonizing and coercing those who disagree, the left behaves exactly like the fascists it claims to hate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This way of censoring all kinds of dissent is reaching extremes typical of the most paranoid dictatorships. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/08\/the-mutant-reasons-why-today-you-can-be-accused-of-being-a-fascist-by-the-left-wing\/\">The reasons for being labeled a \"fascist\" by the left have expanded so much and in such an absurd way<\/a> <strong>that many people have had enough and have lost their fear of these extremists<\/strong> who accuse others of \"hate\" and \"intolerance\" when that is precisely what they themselves profess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However, the paranoia and intolerance of antifascists can be channeled toward a beneficial end for all of society.<\/strong> In fact, and with that purpose in mind, I have been moved to write this article. I take it for granted that <strong>no kind of reasoning or moral, ethical, or historical argument is of any use with someone who holds an irrational and violent thesis<\/strong> according to which the left (or a part of it, since not all of the left says the same thing) is right about everything, and anyone who disagrees deserves a punch, a kick, or something much worse.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed pues, <strong>me animo a sugerir un m\u00e9todo m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido para que los antifascistas puedan identificar y neutralizar a peligrosos fascistas: compren un espejo<\/strong>, m\u00edrense en \u00e9l y podr\u00e1n ver al fascista que tienen m\u00e1s cerca, que son ellos mismos. <strong>Si despu\u00e9s de eso tienen ganas de agredir a ese fascista del espejo, siempre pueden hacerlo d\u00e1ndose cabezados contra una pared<\/strong>. H\u00e1ganlo intentando no molestar a los vecinos, que no tienen la culpa de vivir al lado de unos tarados mentales.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <strong>I am encouraged to suggest a quicker method for antifascists to identify and neutralize dangerous fascists: buy a mirror<\/strong>, look at yourselves in it, and you will see the fascist closest to you, which is yourselves. <strong>If after that you feel like attacking that fascist in the mirror, you can always do so by banging your head against a wall.<\/strong> Do this trying not to disturb the neighbors, who are not to blame for living next to a bunch of lunatics.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: Grok.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago I explained here the moment and purpose of the birth of so-called antifascism in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11415,10863],"tags":[13941,13986,10444,10497],"class_list":["post-66816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-plana-english","category-reflexions","tag-antifa","tag-antifascism","tag-communism","tag-far-left"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-28 09:37:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}