Y'all can scream and yell about Antifa all you like but between people who will actually confront fascists and stand up to them and those who think they can be reasoned with, converted to prog/left class analysis, or need to be "understood," I'll take the former every time.
That doesn't mean there isn't a valid critique of certain tactics, strategies & particular actions. As is true in ANY political formation. The question is, should we respond to fascists with kindness and ecumenism or militant self-defense? No evidence the first of these works
I feel like those who critique Antifa but are on the progressive/left of the spectrum really believe you can reason with fascists, or turn them on to Gramsci if given enough time, or some such shit...
...or at least make them understand how they're "voting against their interests" by supporting the millionaires and the billionaires, when what they really need is M4A. They're fascists. They give not a shit about any of that...
and the quicker we give up the romantic notion of converting right wingers as a primary goal, or saving them, or just being nicer to them as an end in itself, the quicker we can get about the business of mobilizing our own side to repel their designs on the country...
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