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Just A Box Of Rain

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6. Most of this just isn't true.
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 12:52 AM
Oct 2022

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
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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.

A quick word or two about Antifa [View all] Deuxcents Oct 2022 OP
The Greatest AntiFa 5 Star General who became President. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2022 #1
True. Thanks for bringing that up.. Deuxcents Oct 2022 #2
Antifa are old anarchists and a failed political party pre- WWII in Germany LeftInTX Oct 2022 #11
Nope. Not in 1941. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2022 #13
Antifa was a failed German political party. (Communist) LeftInTX Oct 2022 #15
Anyone who is against fascism is Antifa. elleng Oct 2022 #3
I am Antifa. NullTuples Oct 2022 #19
Donations to Antifa headquarters are sent to... rubbersole Oct 2022 #4
I don't know about Patton. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2022 #14
Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!! keithbvadu2 Oct 2022 #5
Most of this just isn't true. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #6
Thank you for your post Deuxcents Oct 2022 #10
I believe that if you study the history of that period that Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #12
But the fact remains that the current republiQan boogeyman "antifa" doesn't exist. Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #24
That's not entirely true either. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #27
Then those people are actually republiQan provocateurs who have nothing Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #28
No, they are mainly Revolutionary Communists and Anarcho-Communists. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #30
What do you base this on? Sympthsical Oct 2022 #32
Just A Box of Rain confirms that the antifa you are talking about are an Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #33
They're a protest group that exists across the country Sympthsical Oct 2022 #34
Then we agree that the organization that the republiQans have been using as Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #36
It isn't " the other definition of antifa." Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #41
Then what, exactly, would you like us to call the nonexistent republiQan boogeyman called antifa? Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #43
You are mixing things up. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #44
Oh, Lord. Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #45
So, I guess that's a no? Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #46
Exactly. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #40
ANTIFA--the cellular organization that actually exists--is neither democratic or Democratic. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #35
Huh. This was an interesting post right up to the nasty ad-hominem. Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #38
Read the thread. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #39
I agree Dirty Socialist Oct 2022 #29
I posted this tonight b/c of a thread Deuxcents Oct 2022 #7
Should have told him he should be glad a gang of white nationalists did not come to his cow farm LeftInTX Oct 2022 #17
Not this again LeftInTX Oct 2022 #8
Yes. But the current republiQan imaginary enemy comprised of violent liberals does not exist. Scrivener7 Oct 2022 #25
No, they made the whole thing up! Initech Oct 2022 #9
To all the anti-anti-fa posters on this thread. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2022 #16
It makes us sound ignorant and juvenile. LeftInTX Oct 2022 #18
Technically, Communist USSR was anti-fascist in WWII... Wounded Bear Oct 2022 #20
"There is no organization called "Antifa" AntivaxHunters Oct 2022 #21
Interesting posts. tavernier Oct 2022 #22
We're led by JFK Jr. rubbersole Oct 2022 #23
I'm a non violent anti-fascist Democrat, like most of the folks who are Roisin Ni Fiachra Oct 2022 #26
Which is why anti-fascist Democrats should disassociate entirely from ANTIFA. Just A Box Of Rain Oct 2022 #37
The way it is now.... The Grand Illuminist Oct 2022 #31
You are in fact 100% correct. However... Tommy Carcetti Oct 2022 #42
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