Antifa: The new troops of the Bourgeoisie!

What's fascism?

On the 23rd of may in 1919 the (at that time) revolutionairy Marxist Benito Mussolini founded the Fascio di Combattimento. In the local language they soon became kown as Fascists. Till the year 1920 they where a marginal group at the left wing of the political spectrum. After the oppurtunist swivel to the right and the frontal approach against Communism and Socialism, they gave the Fascist movement a strong impulse in 1920-1921. After the "red tidewave", when striking workers started industrial occupations and the foundation of workers Sovjets, the Fascists could count on warm symphaty and benevolent support from the Italian bourgeoisie. In a short period of time Fascism with full support of the liberal bourgeoisie, state bureacrats, parts of the army and the Catholic church became a mass movement in Italy. "Nothing outside the state, norhing against the state and everything for the state" was their famous slogan; the formula for the totalitary state. From the viewpoint of the Italian mass the Fascists always remained the killers of workers and accomplices of the hated landowners and factory lords of which Fascism was depending on during her whole existence.

Facism can't exist without a strong state. Fascism puts the interests of the state above those of the people. Examples of this are the Franco regime in Spain (1939-1975). Also the Hitlerite variant of National-Socialism was constructed on the same Fascist ideology and also suppresed their own people, propagated a bourgeois state Nationalism and imperialist utopias.

Antifascism on the other hand is the defence of the rights of the people, of each individual for an own living, self-determination, a non poluted enviroment, the right on a humane future. The Communist secratary-general of the Komintern, G Dimitrov stated justly that Fascism was:

"Fascism is the open, terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinist and most imperialist elements of finance capital."

The development of antifascism

The original antifascism origenates from 1920. It was formed from the necceserity for each political organisation to achieve their own objectives against their opponents. The autentic antifa was a result of the political will of the KPD and SPD. They didn't see al the opponents goals as contradictionairy to their own worldvision. There are much examples of public meetings between Nationalist/National-Socialist groups and Socialist/Communist groups at the other hand. Most of the activists where only concerned with the living of the ordinary citizen. There where joint combatmeetings against the hated Weimar Republic; all saw that the interests of the state was put above that of the people. Ofcourse every Communist knew why he was against Nazi's and every Nazi knew why he was against Communists.

Antifa work was in that time only a mean to a cause; to accomplish the own goal. Till 1970 antifascism was driven by the political motivation and was only small part of the Socialist, Communist and Anarcho groups. The antifa didn't have a control function to people from their own "scene", nor was it wanted as a gang to fight political opponents. Publications that where strictly antifascist didn't exist. Most Socialist and Communist publications where filled with ideological and philosofical articles; they where intensively and critical busy with their own objectives.

In the 80's and 90's the situation radically changed; the search for new (fake) identities made antifascism no longer a mean to a purpose, but a purpose on it's own. The antifascism became the only purpose for these groups and their existance. But a group that's only occupied with the opponend, is a group in the defence. They only react instead of agitate!

The struggle against Facism became from that moment on, only the struggle against "nazi's" (and everyone they saw as "nazi's"). This lead to a struggle against any form of national liberation (in 1970 German activists of the KPD/ML where labeled as "neonazi's" because of their struggle for national self-determination, catchfrased by the frase; Deutschland der Deutsche! Ami's raus!).

Till this day so called "antifascists" have been stuck in a hysterical aversion against everything what has to do with the concept "national". Everything that is more patriottic than chancellor Merkel has to be fought and destroyed. Some even labeled themselves as "Antideutscher" (Anti German). They took the ultimate consequence from their hate against their own people and identity. The meaning of "antifascism" is so much falsified and abused today that these antifascists became part of their "opponent's" camp. Under the pretext of the fight for "human rights" and "democracy" the antifacist agitate today as the most agressive warmongers of all (most recent example Libya). They see in every land a "new Hitler" who has to be killed with the help of US bombs, before a new "Holocaust" can take place. The antideutschers (anti Germans) even pull it of to name the racist state "Israel" as the ultimate fortress against "Facism". They propagate Israel her state terrorism as an act of "antifascism".

The new fascism

In the Western imperialist metropolis - mostly in the US - a new kind of Fascism was created. Their political structures are the new Fascists since the 60's. The big Capitalist concerns, the secret services, the (militairy) forces, the big political party's and the organised crime are strongly intertwined and almost identical. On 11 September 2001 this new Fascism formed itself when GW Bush stated; "Your with us, or against us!"

In France is Nicolas Sarkozy the face of this new Fascism. In the BRD it's the CDU politician Wolfgang Schäuble. He's supported by the Capitalist employers' organisation "Bund der Deutsche industrie", the central trade union DGB, who are intertwined with the political apparatus, the bourgeoisie and reactionary conservatives like "Junge Freiheit" and "Pro NRW" who seek an alliance with zionism (like the recent attempt for an alliance with the zionist Ralph Goirdano). Under Schäuble they are constructing a new secret Staatspolizei (Gestapo). He also intesivies the struggle against Islamists and German "extremists", who don't conform to the so called "Western value community". Who doesn't subject to the imperialist world order and doesn't consume the American culture is labeled as public enemy and extremist. They are put on the black lists of the Verfassungsschutz (secret service) or in the worst case Guantanamo.

In the whole West they conduct politics which put the state above the well-being of the people. That's Facism! But this new Fascism isn't Nationalist, but it's Globalist!

It's a petty that the antifa isn't able or prepared to use her "antifascism" against this new brand of Fascism and the extremists of the mainstream. Instead they rather fight against the "neonazi" danger. Are these a-political subcultural groups a serious political hazard than? No!

The answer is clear; antifascism these days is degenerated in a pseudo-idology without any meaning. She has sold out to the imperialist new world order and is a essential element of this new Fascism!

Based on an article from the "Nationale & Socialistische Actie / Autonome Nationale Socialisten" (Netherlands)

(Excuse me for mistakes in translation)

Interesting article, though it could have done without the "New World Order" line at the end (which invokes the notion of conspiracy theory). Thank you for taking the time to translate it.

Where do the Autonomous Socialist Nationalists of the Netherlands stand with respects to matters of political and economic organization?

Celtiberian wrote:Interesting article, though it could have done without the "New World Order" line at the end (which invokes the notion of conspiracy theory). Thank you for taking the time to translate it.

With "New World Order" the author probably means the Trans-Atlantism (Washington-Brussels-Tel Aviv) and the consolidation of their world hegemony (and thus the spread of finance Capitalism).

Where do the Autonomous Socialist Nationalists of the Netherlands stand with respects to matters of political and economic organization?

I think most of their ideology is a mix of leftwing Nazism (Leftwing elements of the SA, Strasser, Fritz Kloppe and so on) and German National-Bolshevism (ideas from Karl O Paetel, Laufenberg, Wolfsheim, Niekisch).

They see the State as the expression of the "Capitalist worldorder" and wish it's destruction. They promote a form of "popular council control" (Sovjets) as political form of organisation. They persue the classtruggle, collectivisation of all the means of production and want a Socialist community. They're also against any form of "Führerprinzip" (leader principal) and elitairist vanguard pretension. Their foundation is the "liberation nationalism" and they are for the souvereignity of the national working class (without distinctions on race or religion).

Nationaal-Syndicalist wrote:With "New World Order" the author probably means the Trans-Atlantism (Washington-Brussels-Tel Aviv) and the consolidation of their world hegemony (and thus the spread of finance Capitalism).

Perhaps it's just a cultural difference. In the current American vernacular, the term "New World Order" invariably refers to a sinister plot, also headed by international financiers, to establish an oppressive (in many renditions, "socialistic") world government. Every war, television program, and commodity sold at the grocery store, in some way, is supposed to advance the agenda of this New World Order. In the United States, it's typically paleoconservatives who push the theory most emphatically, often incorporating the "cultural Marxist" myth into the conspiracy—their proposed solution to the conspiracy predictably being a 'return to small government, free enterprise, and Christian values.'

I think most of their ideology is a mix of leftwing Nazism (Leftwing elements of the SA, Strasser, Fritz Kloppe and so on) and German National-Bolshevism (ideas from Karl O Paetel, Laufenberg, Wolfsheim, Niekisch).

So basically a fusion of Strasserism and National Bolshevism? It's interesting that they should wish to incorporate elements of the Strasserist tradition, because the only features which really distinguish Strasserism from National Bolshevism, to my knowledge, are the former's 'Conservative Revolutionary' philosophical basis and advocacy of incorporating religion into more elements of our cultural life. Perhaps they favor Strasser's market socialism and decentralized governance more than the centralized economic planning and dictatorship espoused by Niekisch, et al.?

They see the State as the expression of the "Capitalist worldorder" and wish it's destruction. They promote a form of "popular council control" (Sovjets) as political form of organisation. They persue the classtruggle, collectivisation of all the means of production and want a Socialist community. They're also against any form of "Führerprinzip" (leader principal) and elitairist vanguard pretension. Their foundation is the "liberation nationalism" and they are for the souvereignity of the national working class (without distinctions on race or religion).

Excellent. I hold many of those positions myself.

Celtiberian wrote:So basically a fusion of Strasserism and National Bolshevism? It's interesting that they should wish to incorporate elements of the Strasserist tradition, because the only features which really distinguish Strasserism from National Bolshevism, to my knowledge, are the former's 'Conservative Revolutionary' philosophical basis and advocacy of incorporating religion into more elements of our cultural life. Perhaps they favor Strasser's market socialism and decentralized governance more than the centralized economic planning and dictatorship espoused by Niekisch, et al.?

German National Bolsjevism and leftwing Nazism (National-Revolutionairies like "Der Wehrwolf", Röhm and the Strassers from the NSDAP) have a lot of simularities, although also several differences even within those ideological movements themselves. And each activist has his own vision; from Strasserism, German National-Bolsjevism and even some people who one could call National-Communists. So it is an open minded movement in that sense.

The AN movement in the early days was a exact copy of the German "Nationale Widerstand" and their "autonomous" Nationalists. It started mostly as a subcultural phenomina with a lot of Hitlerites and other reactionairies. The last years in the Netherlands it's developing itself to a really distincted movement with an own identity and ideology. It has a lot simularities with the leftwing autonomous movement and also the ideology became more and more revolutionary incorperating several different ideologies. That's a good development in my opinion.

Nationaal-Syndicalist wrote:The AN movement in the early days was a exact copy of the German "Nationale Widerstand" and their "autonomous" Nationalists. It started mostly as a subcultural phenomina with a lot of Hitlerites and other reactionairies. The last years in the Netherlands it's developing itself to a really distincted movement with an own identity and ideology. It has a lot simularities with the leftwing autonomous movement and also the ideology became more and more revolutionary incorperating several different ideologies. That's a good development in my opinion.

Distancing themselves from Hitlerism, and reactionary ideologies in general, is certainly a positive development.

I wish I spoke Dutch so I could find out more about these guys-- they seem as if they're on the right track.

RedSun wrote:I wish I spoke Dutch so I could find out more about these guys-- they seem as if they're on the right track.

Most information is indeed in Dutch or in German. But most of the comrades speak also English, so you can always contact them if you've questions.

Thank you. Having done a bit of Googling, two questions:
-What is the Racial Volunteer Force, why do they use the Totenkopf, and what is their connection to the Autonomous Nationalist Socialists?
-What is the purpose/meaning of the term 'Autonomous'?

RedSun wrote:-What is the Racial Volunteer Force, why do they use the Totenkopf, and what is their connection to the Autonomous Nationalist Socialists?

As i stated before the Autonous Nationalist Socialists started out as a copy of the German NW. So it has it's roots in the National-Socialist movement and was associated with that kind of organisations. Later on they developed their own ideology which is a mix of leftwing Nazism and National Bolshevism.

-What is the purpose/meaning of the term 'Autonomous'?

That there are no members and every individual within the collective is unbound to any form of hiërarchy. They use the black bloc tactics. It's a strategy born out of neccessity because of State repression.

Thank you. Having done a bit of Googling, two questions:

Not all information you'll find on this phenominon will be objective.

Really? You mean the news media would display a bias regarding a group with the terms 'Nationalist' and 'Socialist' in its name? Never.

RedSun wrote:Really? You mean the news media would display a bias regarding a group with the terms 'Nationalist' and 'Socialist' in its name? Never.

I mean that certain "antifascist" fractions of socalled "Socialists" don't believe that some people revision their own believes, take distance from dogmatism and will keep using the past against sincire initiatives.

I heard that anti-German activists are communists;uh,hello Marx was German!

Anyway,thanks for the article