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British Conservatives so far seem torn between condemning the riots and understanding them. I wonder how long it is before the opinions of people who understand the riots are suppressed, as have been the opinions of people who understand Russia or understand the Arabs in Palestine or hold a long long list of other opinions.
Violent racist Nazis, who if they had guns, would be murdering people. These are dangerous times. So much misinformation far too easily believed. There are too many willing executioners out there.
ReplyDeleteWhy mention Nazis and not Marxists? The Antifa communists are and always were very violent too - I remember reading in Lord Skidelsky's biography of Mosley while reading history at university that the violence in the Battle of Cable St came mostly from the far left. I told this to someone leftish whom I knew - he looked at me with hatred and said 'Good'.
DeleteAntifa means anti fascist as far as I know. Don't know any Marxists but I know many people that oppose nazis and their resurgance. Cable Street was local people, Jews and gentiles alike defending their turf against Nazi thugs.
ReplyDeleteAntifa began as a shortened form of Antifaschistische Aktionwas, an organisation set up by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1932, which engaged in violent street battles with the National Socialists until they came to power the next year. Antifa has had a resurgence.
DeleteThanks for googling that. And thank God 'Antifa has had a resurgence'. Nazis need to be opposed.
ReplyDeleteI knew Antifa was originally (and still?) Communist without recourse to googling and it's very important people realise this.
Delete“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.” Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
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