Europe, Germany with their threat to ban AfD and Brussels now are harking back to the past and acting just the people they purport to despise.
A guide in Munich who took us on Third Reich tour of that city told us that us that it was so dangerous that the AfD were so popular-he didn't name them. He told us it was because young people weren't understanding just how bad the Nazis were and had decided that weren't so bad at all.
I was somewhat bemused because I had observed many school parties visiting Dachau and the grounds where Hitler had his rallies in Nuremberg when we were there. I suggest that people are embracing the right because they see what immigration does to their cities, amongst others things.
A very thoughtful piece, and something that has been obvious since the rise of a genuine democratic alternative in Populism. This has made me question the importance of having something substantive object to achieve than merely something to oppose. Anti Fascism seemed to move from something genuinely principled and liberatory, through an absurdly antiquated phase by the end of the Cold War, to a stage now here it has become authoritarian and sinister. It’s been obvious that anti-fascism has mutated into it’s opposite and has adopted so much of what it rhetorically opposed: the activities of Antifa across the West and in the United States especially has shown this: the hostility towards debate, the celebration violence, the adoption of a highly racialised world view (albeit with an inverted hierarchy). Yet this mutation has become possible as this movement has no substantive core, and survives now because of the fear of the masses on the part of the elites.
Europe, Germany with their threat to ban AfD and Brussels now are harking back to the past and acting just the people they purport to despise.
A guide in Munich who took us on Third Reich tour of that city told us that us that it was so dangerous that the AfD were so popular-he didn't name them. He told us it was because young people weren't understanding just how bad the Nazis were and had decided that weren't so bad at all.
I was somewhat bemused because I had observed many school parties visiting Dachau and the grounds where Hitler had his rallies in Nuremberg when we were there. I suggest that people are embracing the right because they see what immigration does to their cities, amongst others things.
A very thoughtful piece, and something that has been obvious since the rise of a genuine democratic alternative in Populism. This has made me question the importance of having something substantive object to achieve than merely something to oppose. Anti Fascism seemed to move from something genuinely principled and liberatory, through an absurdly antiquated phase by the end of the Cold War, to a stage now here it has become authoritarian and sinister. It’s been obvious that anti-fascism has mutated into it’s opposite and has adopted so much of what it rhetorically opposed: the activities of Antifa across the West and in the United States especially has shown this: the hostility towards debate, the celebration violence, the adoption of a highly racialised world view (albeit with an inverted hierarchy). Yet this mutation has become possible as this movement has no substantive core, and survives now because of the fear of the masses on the part of the elites.