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In reply to the discussion: A quick word or two about Antifa [View all]Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)In 1930's Germany Antifaschistische Aktion declared that the liberal Social Democratic Party (SPD), were "social fascists." The liberals were the primary targets of Antifa, not the Nazis.
Antifa and the German Communist Party (KPD) of which Antifaschistische Aktion was a subsidiary) had the policy that they needed to destroy liberal democracy in Germany and they aided the Nazis path to power, rather than opposing it.
From the always reliable Wikipedia:
The Communists and the Nazis explicitly sought to overthrow the liberal democracy of the Weimar Republic while the social democrats and liberals strongly defended the republic and its constitution...
However, after the Comintern's abrupt ultra-left turn in its Third Period from 1928, the KPD regarded the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) as its main adversary and adopted the position that the SPD was the main fascist party in Germany. This was based on the theory of social fascism that had been proclaimed by Joseph Stalin and that was supported by the Comintern during the late 1920s and early 1930s, which held that social democracy was a variant of fascism.[14] Consequently, the KPD held that it was "the only anti-fascist party" in Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion
Thälmann's KPD thus fought the SPD as its main political enemy, acting according to the Comintern policy which declared Social Democrats to be "social fascists". This made it difficult for the two leftist parties to work together against the emergence of Adolf Hitler.[9] The KPD under Thälmann declared that "fighting fascism means fighting the SPD just as much as it means fighting Hitler and the parties of Brüning."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Th%C3%A4lmann
Comparing American soldiers--such as my father who nearly died in combat fighting fascism to Antifaschistische Aktion is insulting. You should study the history.