Direct/Grassroots Activism & Tactics

Fanatical thinking is based on a narrative of resentment toward outgroups. Nietzsche offers two ways of changing the script

A two-part analysis of the benign modern Left when contrasted to the factually dangerous Right.

In the dominant liberal political imaginary, fascist and far-right movements are framed as problems of hate and extremism. The global extremism industry – a network of government ministries, intelligence agencies, military and police forces, university research centers, think tanks, media outlets, and government-oriented NGOs – dutifully serves the ruling class by occluding liberalism’s complicity with fascism by placing antifascist movements on an extremism spectrum that also includes violent fascist formations, a mystification aimed at policing the Left and criminalizing antifascists.

Antifa activists told CNN their goal is peace and inclusivity. But often, their methods are violent.