The Evil that is Antifa
Mike Walker, Col USMC (ret)
Four points to consider:
1. Antifa is a radical and violent Marxist-Leninist group.
The name comes from the period between the two world wars when the two most evil political ideologies in human history vied to enslave and murder millions of innocents.
In Germany, where the name originates, it was a deadly battle between nationalist socialism/fascism and communism. The fate of the German nation had devolved into a vile struggle between Hitler’s nationalist socialist (nazi) storm troopers and the communist party’s anti-fascist action [Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa].
2. We remember the horrors of nationalist socialism -- that is good, but the evils of Marxism-Leninism have been ignored -- that is wrong.
Let us set the record straight:
Hitler’s fascists killed millions. Stalin’s communists killed millions. They share the guilt for starting the Second World War that led to the destruction of vast swaths of the Europe and the deaths of millions more. Determining which radical socialist dictator gets what share of that bloodbath is a hopelessly dismal study into unimaginable atrocity.
Suffice it to say that Marxism-Leninism and nationalist socialism/fascism have insatiable blood appetites.
Perhaps as a greater shock to the senses, Mao’s Marxist-Leninist state killed more innocents than both Hitler and Stalin combined.
And finally, let us add that when the communists took power in East Germany after the nazis, the fascist gestapo headquarters in Berlin – with its execution rooms and torture chambers – was taken over by the communist secret police.
Similarly, at the SS concentration camp at Buchenwald (renamed “special camp no. 2"), the communists replaced the nazis and thousand more died at that death center.
3. That is the legacy of Antifa: Unflinching support for Marxist-Leninist driven slaughter of almost countless innocent men, women and children of nearly every race, religion and ethnicity on the planet.
4. Supporting or turning a blind eye to the evil that is Antifa is beyond being disgusting or immoral or unethical. It is, at its root, an act of depravity and cruelty and an obscenity to humanity.
