Deleted member 210577
Bluelight Crew
While we have seen a rise of fascism in some places, its a relatively powerless force; and this is not because antifa protests militant action have scared them away. The reality is that the majority in the various communities of western democratic communities simply do not support fascism. And, from what I can tell, it is largely because fascism is seen as a doctrine that can only be introduced using force, not because it has racist or nationalistic overtones.
The thing that annoys me about all of this is that it's too easy to fall back on definitions and terms of political theory, of political scales, and say "there's the problem over there!" based upon previous history. It's too easy to get caught up with these definitions and terms, as we can see with Antifa who seem to specifically want to go after white racists or supremacists, because they seem to believe that is the only possible source from which fascism (or racism) can arise - only white people are capable of such evils.
Fascism doesn't have to be so rigidly defined - fascistic behavior can be seen stewing in many places.. hence my question on Islamic extremism and why the anti-fascists are just silent on that issue, and why in the UK they go after groups like the EDL who have ZERO chance of becoming a political force given they are not wanting it in the first place. Why protest against the EDL, a street movement of pissed off working class folk, and instead give implied support for the Islamic extremists who actually have the far greater chance of implementing a system of governance that would be antithetical to all the values we hold dear in Western society? It makes no sense if you're opposed to fascism in all its manifestations, but then that's the issue with Antifa and the anti-fascist crowd.. too confined to what they think the definition of fascism ought to be. That and they don't have the balls to stand up the Islamic crowd who are genuinely dangerous people.
The irony of the far-left groups is that they claim to oppose racism but they themselves are predominantly white people caught up in white political theory of left vs right, love vs hate or whatever, and are overlooking elephants in the room because they're too busy playing their stupid childish political games. They're so busy focusing on white racists or supremacists who are totally insignificant and will never achieve any sort of momentum that they're missing the real creeping threats that are sidestepping around them. I can see three systems of political current that could potentially manifest into something dangerous in the Western sphere: One is the creeping Islamic threat, with its core of nutters surrounded by legions of "nice" religious followers who may inadvertently allow political power to settle their with increased demographic potency, another is the cynical alliance between liberal society and the corporate state (modern society as it stands) in many western countries, and the final one is the European Union which is ironic given that it supposedly exists to prevent that sort of thing happening. The anti-fascists crowd generally speaking has no problem with Islam (because it can't be seen to be racist), no problem with liberal bigotry because they themselves are largely liberal bigots, and no problem with the idea of EU supranational governance because they hate the idea of nation states and self-determination.. because of course we all know there's a link between that and Nazism.