Know Your Enemy—and His Rationalizations
August 20, 2020
Rick from Oregon extracts this paragraph from a website entitled, “JOIN ANTIFA – JOIN THE ANTIFA MOVEMENT! Tools and resources to make you an Antifa Warrior!”:
…we should not imagine that coercive force can solve everything, nor permit fascists and state repression to put us so on edge that we see enemies everywhere we look and begin to attack people when it is not strategic.
Yeah, you want to beat the crap out of them only when it’s strategic.
In the words of an elder anti-fascist veteran from Germany, fascist violence aims to exterminate, while anti-fascist violence aims to educate. [That’s Rick’s emphasis.] We should not hurry to put fascist martyrs in the ground next to Heather Heyer. We must never risk coming across as bullies.
Ahem. I think it may be a tad late to worry about that.
It must always be clear that we are here to protect the public at large, not to assert our own authority.
Ditto.
Imagine the derangement and delusion of the Marxist who can write such twaddle after 150 years of his fellow-travelers “asserting their own authority” via gulags, killing fields, concentrations camps, starvation, Long Marches, genocide, and communism’s myriads of other atrocities.
When we are compelled to use coercive force, we must make sure that the ways we do so don’t centralize power or legitimacy within our own movement.
Poor babies. Just so loathe to assault innocent bystanders, but boy, you know how it is when someone holds a gun to your head and compels you to use coercive force. Or, as Rick summarizes this double-speak, “Violence is educational when we do it….”
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