Antifa’s fascist violence will return on election night. That’s why it’s important to understand their fraudulence and fascism, and reject the politics of plutocrat-contrived violence. Perhaps strangely, Marxian analysis itself is best suited to communicate this point to the radical left.

This is because at the root of Marxian analysis are not self-declarations, nor definitions based in superstructural manifestations, but rather the material relationship between base and superstructure.

In layman’s terms this boils down to two things in practice: ‘follow the money’, and ‘watch what they do and not what they say’.

The real existing financial motives and the socio-economic class behind those motives is what we will find driving the base, even while at the superstructural level we find an ideology which only nominally, only apparently, appears at odds with the real motives at the base. Antifa, at its class and financial base (i.e., its objective and material base) is a plutocrat supported and controlled operation against the republic.

“Unlike the old left, rooted in radically independent organized labor, Antifa’s leadership and activities, to the contrary, are financed through billionaire oligarchs both directly and indirectly, like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.”

In the simplest possible terms, Antifa is fascist because while they use some of the talking points and imagery of the old left, they actually work towards a plutocratic coup (or counter-revolution) against the republic. This is not to say there is a system-wide fascist threat, for reasons we will explain in an upcoming installment. In short, the coming coup against republican norms will not establish ‘fascism’ as historically understood, but a new kind techno-industrial repressive society within the rubric of post-modernity, which has hitherto not been contemplated rigorously outside of small circles of futurists and science fiction authors.

Antifa and BLM protests have generally disappeared from the simulated reality of the controlled media lens, because these riots did not have the intended effect of delegitimizing the Trump administration, instead working against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Antifa Explosion – What the Week of November 2^nd Will Look Like

Once Trump declares victory at around 11:30 pm on November 3^rd, right as social media bans, blocks, and censors Trump’s announcement of victory, we will see the start of mass Antifa violence in key cities in swing states. As the French Marxist Baudrillard would have explained, an entire media simulation will ensnare (within its simulacra) whole portions of the population, which will be encouraged to send in their late ballots, following a last minute strategic ballot harvesting ploy targeted at key locations.

The disastrous ruling of the Supreme Court allowing three-day late ballots to be counted, will encourage a whole post-election drive to harvest ballots precisely in those precincts where the known data is already in from election night. The push to throw the election for Biden post facto will focus largely on those precincts within particular communities, within swing states. The problem for Biden has been the lack of a ground campaign and any sort of excitement.

This means we should expect a very big controlled-media scandal to captivate headlines right after the election. Whether or not this will actually motivate post facto ‘voting’ is beside the point. It most only be a semi-credible narrative that will explain why hundreds of thousands of voters turned out starting November 4^th to cast their late ballots organically, even as in fact these will have been the result of targeted ballot harvesting.

Why Antifa’s ‘Communists’ Are Actually Fascists

1. It Doesn’t Matter What You Call Yourself

Many Antifa members, as well as the BLM leadership, call themselves Marxists, and because this self-declaration is also convenient for their conservative opponents, these self-descriptions go unchallenged.

Likewise in terms of its membership, fascist movements a hundred years ago were largely drawn from workers and small business owners who saw themselves as socialists and liberal-progressives. People do not fit into easy categories, and besides socialism and liberal-progressivism were a mix of both enlightenment and romantic ideas relating to both myth and utopia.

What defined them as fascists in Marxian terms was not the self-professed utopian, futurist, religious, socialist, or reactionary beliefs of this or that member of the movement, but by the objective material and financial reality of being backed by the plutocracy against the public, itself. All the while posing as guardians of the public.

Marxian analytic tools demonstrate that the same as true of Antifa in the U.S. today. The conservative right has long enjoyed throwing around the term ‘socialist’ and ‘Marxist’, especially ‘cultural Marxism’, to denounce their opponents within the Democrat Party, and this has the inverse effect of drawing elements of the populist and radical left who have no relation to the ruling plutocracy within the DNC, towards down-ballot DNC politics and Antifa protest-riots.

We cannot characterize a party or movement by the plurality socioeconomic class of its members in a vacuum. Otherwise both the Democrats and Republicans are ‘labor parties’.

2. We Already Proved That Antifa Is Financed by the Plutocracy

Indeed, Antifa in the U.S. has become a plutocrat-financed fascistic movement if we are using any Marxian metric. This seems counter-intuitive, for after all they profess themselves to be antifascist, and the fascists they are opposed to are allegedly the ‘basket of deplorables’ that back Trump. This means we need to set aside the institutionally approved (Eco, Griffin, et al) definitions of fascism, ultimately liberal ones in service of the status quo, to arrive at any meaningful definition of any utility. The academic institutions themselves are compromised with regard to these matters.

This is why in our piece ‘How Can the Deep State’s Antifa Organization Be Stopped?’ we showed the plutocrat financed NGO industrial complex through organizations like Democracy Alliance, was the defining base of Antifa activism – what Marxian analysis has always held, far and above, as defining the objective nature of a movement, and not its self-professions nor characterizations by their opponents.

Marxian analysis requires that we assess a movement by a.) Its material base, meaning which class empowers it and makes it possible (finances it) and b.) In whose class interest they work to empower. The answer for both here is the plutocracy. Because they pose as ‘revolutionary left’ but are in fact plutocratic, means they are fascist.

Marxian analytic tools must be salvaged from today’s ‘Marxists’, as these are as prescient as they are timely. They go farther to explain the 4^th Turning, the 4^th Industrial Revolution, the declining rate of profit, the internet of things and 3D printing, and the potential for a future economy based on the natural right of liberty and human dignity, both in the world and of the soul. But its vulgar misrepresentation as the ideology of Antifa and BLM serves the purpose, perhaps intentionally, of turning-off tens of millions of Americans who could otherwise see what is useful within the analytic framework of class and economic development through history.

3. Their Tactics Are Taken From Fascism

Of course the fascism of Antifa is visible to many, because of its gang-stalking and arson, the mob intimidation of citizens and small businesses to support this nascent totalitarian movement. To force passersby to raise the fist just as eighty-five years ago, Germans and Italians were identically forced to give the Roman salute, is only a corroborating piece of anecdata, and not the root of the reasoning that Antifa is fascist in nature.

But insofar as the Antifa mob and BLM leadership situates itself ostensibly in Marxism, this is perhaps even more dangerous for the reasons we’ve explained. And yet it is Marxian analysis itself which is best suited to demonstrate that even at a theoretical level, Antifa is fascist.

The owning class weary of radical economic changes and a rising ‘right-wing’ populist movement which itself is fixated on economic issues historically associated with the left, deploys the very same ‘victims of modernity’ (war veterans, permanently unemployed of all ages, workers, vagabonds, indebted students, adventurers, petty thieves and released criminals) to bring its definition of order out of chaos by operationalizing the chaos and the chaotic tendencies of its minions.

Unlike the old left, rooted in radically independent organized labor, Antifa’s leadership and activities, to the contrary, are financed through billionaire oligarchs both directly and indirectly, like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.

Likewise we cannot characterize something as ‘fascist’ by its explicit beliefs or by views that may be projected onto them, but rather by the class that operationalizes them, and towards what end. Race, nationality, ethnicity, religion – these are but superstructural permutations of the givens of a time and place. Here is, among many other places, where Umberto Eco and Roger Griffin and those in their image are critically errant in understanding fascism. Fascism is a matter of methods, of tactics, and of financing – not of symbols, explicit ideology, or specific positions on culture-war (wedge) issues.

That said, Griffin’s point that fascism no longer has the ability to mobilize a mass movement in the way it did prior to WWII, but that it can carry on as a smaller phenomenon that can inspire terrorism, is agreed. Many of his reasons for stating so are incorrect, even if this conclusion is apt.

4. Antifa Punches Down, the Historic Labor Left Punches Up

Both the traditional radical left and fascist right were proponents of violence towards political goals, even if in self-defense, but the traditional radical left used to focus on ‘punching up’: Attacking capital, the ruling class, the banks, big land owners.

But historic fascism in its late-nascent stage is more similar to Maoism during the Cultural Revolution (there’s a strong New Left orientation to Maoism as well). It organizes and concentrates power by ‘punching down’.

This dangerous fascistic trend among what has come to be known as ‘the left’. At the level of universities, it began in the late 90’s when coastal university classrooms became ‘call-out sessions’. It moved into mass culture through venture-capital funded click-bait websites like Buzzfeed and Jezebel. Of course all of these antics would have been unrecognizably alien to militant rank-and-file labor union members in decades past.

That Antifa punches down and that mainstream media echoes their talking points, and that public service announcements are increasingly indistinguishable from Antifa propaganda, is a clear sign of its fascist essence. Punching down is always from a position of power, and its appropriation by the overt sections of power is a clear sign that their ideas have become what the French Marxist Althousser called the Ideological State Apparatus: That anything and everything outside of nebulous, ever-changing shibboleths (i.e. ‘community standards’) can potentially be called ‘fascist’ as a justification for ‘cancel culture’ and black-listing, is precisely that which the growing ‘illiberal liberalism’ of the plutocrats indeed flourishes on.

Pro-systemic propaganda punches down. Anti-systemic propaganda punches up. It’s an equation as simple as it is true.

5. Like Fascists, Antifa Relies on Support from Local Law Enforcement, Local Business, and an Entrenched Local Political Class to Place Them ‘Above the Law’

Perhaps you’ve seen old film reel of Nazis in the 1920’s in paramilitary uniform, long before they had official power in the governmental sense, seemingly able to physically attack those they wanted at whim, without local authorities intervening. From a position of power, from local friendly police departments, business interests, and politicians who at the very least ‘look the other way’, Antifa – like its fascist counterpart – is able to get away of enforcing its power on a down vertical. Road-blocks, riots, home-burnings, against the general public – all with local official support. Their aim is to coerce from the public a fear-based passivity and conformity to the politics of their program.

It matters very little in this sense, that they call themselves Antifa. While history moves in one direction, and historical parallels are fraught with contradictions, Antifa today in the most simple terms is recruited and built from that disenfranchised and permanently unemployed hodgepodge of people of various socioeconomic backgrounds, along with thrill-seeking youth (in that age-old quest for meaning, purpose, and identity) which formed the bulk of fascist mobs in the teens and twenties a hundred years ago in Europe.

When we understand that their ability to operate ‘above the law’ in many cases, find large groups of philanthropically minded lawyer’s groups (like the National Lawyers’ Guild) to work to have their charges dropped, district attorneys who are lenient, and the media industrial complex including monopoly social media, all work in coordinated fashion to enable the Antifa organization.

6. Their Violence Has Not Once Been in Defense of Labor Strikes and Pickets

Their methods and tactics are entirely uninvolved in labor ‘general strike’ type strategies that would more correctly characterize them as traditionally leftist. As seen above, rather, their methods are taken solely from the rise of fascism. Their material financial base, as well as their methods and tactics are fascist, as we have shown. Legitimate left-wing movements arise from, and are materially (financially) rooted in organized labor at its base. The various superstuctural manifestations along the ideological plane, whether nationalist, fascist, social-democratic, communists, anarchist, etc., are not – in the final analysis – determinative of the class and socio-economic nature of its (conscious or not) ‘leftism’ in terms of its relation to organized labor.

7. Their Cancel-Culture and Voter Disenfranchisement Campaign is Against Democracy

This critical in separating Antifa from historical bourgeois-democratic movements. In Marxian terms, in the transition from feudal modes of production to capitalist modes of production, the plutocracy helped arm and organize workers and peasants, the poor and disenfranchised, to overthrow the feudal nobility and usher in an history period characterized by bourgeois-democratic liberties and freedoms, which have come to characterize the ‘western tradition’ in modernity. Antifa is not a bourgeois-democratic movement because the U.S. is not a feudal, nor semi-feudal country, and also because their actions work against the existing rights to association and speech (cancel-culture), and work against enfranchisement as they have been operationalized towards a ballot harvesting scheme.

Concluding Commentary

The views of Griffin and Eco focus overwhelmingly upon the superstructural manifestations of the fascism of a century ago, so much so that Eco’s attempt to uncover an ‘Ur-fascism’, or generalized theory of identifying fascism, is an utter failure. Rather, Marxian analysis demonstrates that both historical fascism regardless of name as well as contemporary movements of the same essence are defined not by these superstructural manifestations (ideology, aesthetics, etc.) but rather by its driving base in terms of socio-economic class (economic foundation, private property, capital.

Election night and the weeks to follow will be met with a wave of violence larger than seen before. It will be difficult for those remaining on the left to understand that the Antifa foot soldiers are agents of capital, and not of labor. This is largely because of the gradual takeover of the left by new-left identity politics which crept slowly, and then rapidly, with May of 1968 and the Situationist moment being a key signifier.

We know that the FBI’s field offices which historically have infiltrated radical left-groups are also compromised, because we would otherwise see these FBI agents – whose work is often to act as agents provocateurs – to act as de-escalating agents urging calm from within the ranks of these fascistic Antifa outfits. We have not seen this, which is a key sign that the FBI at the very top is wrought with complicit activity, which incidentally is another piece of evidence in 5., above.

Perhaps it is ironic that Marxian analysis itself is best able to demonstrate that Antifa – whose members often describe themselves as Marxists (socialists, communists, etc.) – is in fact fascist.

The defense of the republic, of the bourgeois-democratic revolutionary gains of 1776-89 which were expanded in 1865, today rests upon election integrity, voter enfranchisement, and in a strange twist of fate, the Justice Department under AG Barr.

Antifa has become a pseudo-fascist tool in the Color Revolution underway, as part of a coup against the executive branch’s administration, and the massive geopolitical and economic shift that administration represents. The methods of the 2016 election would see Trump win by an even wider Electoral College margin in 2020. For these reasons, it was necessary for the deep state to introduce a whole array of ‘extraordinary circumstances and new rules’: staged riots and ballot harvesting in order to change the election outcome.

The threat of Antifa will always exist so long as the U.S. continues to produce a new-left radicalized permanent under-class, as seen now.

The three ways to stop Antifa are to A.) Remove its funding sources and de facto leaders; B.) Create a production-driven economy; C.) Defund humanities departments promoting critical race and gender theories; and D.) Rehabilitate its hardened members.

Remove Antifa’s Funding Sources and de facto Leaders

Antifa is a terror organization operationalized and functionally created by the deep state. One of the front group NGOs that funnels money to Antifa is ‘Democracy Alliance’, which has Kamala Harris, George Soros, Tom Steyer, BLM Corporation, and many more, as members or backers. BLM Corporation is heavily financed by George Soros. Any number of the backers, members of ‘Democracy Alliance’ and similar, form an interconnected web of organizations apparently financing each other – until one locates a critical billionaire oligarch or their front – such as the Ford Foundation, the Kellog Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg, Soros through Open Society Foundations, and the likes. There are also many thousands of smaller – though quite sizable – donations from relatively wealthy individuals with histories of donating to center-left causes.

The other components of Democracy Alliance are organized labor and elected politicians – a critical component because the staff organizers of labor unions are professionally trained in organizing, and turn-out. They work in spheres both electoral and street activism.

This was realized in the nexus between SEIU and the Bernie Sanders campaign, whose moneys came through both COPA/COPE moneys from labor, and from Act Blue donations to Sanders – which in turn went to the Working Families Party and Our Revolution.

The role of SEIU and the AFL-CIO in this chart below should not lend to confusion that this is operationalized in the interest of organized labor. Organized labor is in steady decline precisely because of its subservience to the DNC, and the rotating door between labor union management and the HR departments of the same companies organized yesterday, or to the DNC itself which facilitates that.

This graphic shows the web of Democracy Alliance, which should be viewed at the original source below because it can be enlarged:

Housing a core of the violent vagabond Antifa ‘fascist’ drifters at a tent-city encampment in Portland is a whole collection of opportunistic NGOs.

Presenting these as made possible by a lot of ‘grass-roots’ sounding NGOs obfuscates the relatively small number of above mentioned donors whose funds ultimately control the direction of the work, even though many (perhaps millions) of small contributions have been used for these ends, even though those donors thought they were donating to other causes. Note also that the legal pretext of the space in the tent city sign, meaning also that public dollars went to this, is Covid-19.

And so with Antifa, as with anything else, we have to assess which class it works in the interests of and, perhaps more clearly, which class finances its activities. In the case of Antifa, we will be repeating, it is a billionaire-oligarch machine used in demagogic ways as part of a strategy of tension, and indistinguishable in that sense to both pre-war and post-war fascism itself.

In that sense which a RICO type prosecution can establish, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, is Antifa’s ‘Minister of Information’. George Soros is its ‘Chief Financial Officer’.

Antifa members/adherents need to be liberated from the toxicity of Antifa’s methods, and from the yolk of the billionaire-philanthropic, NGO and DNC ecosystem which keeps them ensnared.

As far as this goes, donations to BLM were done through ActBlue – the DNC’s primary online donations system. Through this and parallel BLM related NGOs and charities, Antifa rioters had their bail posted using BLM moneys. In that sense, Antifa is how whites involve in BLM riots, but the ‘capture and release’ policy which Antifa enjoys is carried out under the auspices of local government leniency towards BLM, not Antifa, since Antifa does not exist as on organization outside of how prosecutors will use RICO to establish it as such.

Remember, there were very few Antifa manifestations, largely these were carried out under the BLM banner and using BLM funding to acquire permits, pay for police overtime where applicable, funds for city clean-up afterwards, and BLM funds for legal needs were used a well. Regarding property damage, there will no doubt be strong evidence revealed that large property investment firms involved in urban renewal and gentrification projects had, at the very least, foreknowledge that arson-riots would ensue.

Antifa does not believe itself to have Dorsey, Harris, and Soros as leaders, they do not believe themselves to exist as an organization outside of smaller cells which may appear to vary ideologically along the spectrum of anarchism, libertarian socialism, anarcho-communism, communism, socialism, social-democracy, gender/queer theory, and atheism/’ironic’ Satanism. They simply imagine that Twitter is a relatively ‘open’ platform, and that ‘far right’ or ‘alt-right’ accounts get banned and silenced as the mere result of ‘gang reporting’. They might think that Dorsey is a ‘progressive’ that is only somewhat skewed in their direction, but perhaps only for ‘market’ reasons. Just like ISIS members believe they are independent of Saudi Arabia, and may hold the Saudis in great disdain.

With the exception of Antifa leaders who are on the dole and in the know, the vast majority of Antifa adherents/members truly despise the Democrat Party. Even Bernie Sanders was too moderate, even as the betrayal of Sanders by the DNC has activated support for Antifa, believing that without legitimate democratic recourse, ‘direct action’ is the only realistic choice. This means that connecting the dots and showing how Antifa is controlled by billionaire oligarchs, is unbelievable to them.

Dorsey, Harris, Soros, and others will have to be cut-off from Antifa, probably through direct law enforcement methods.

Harris as an experienced DA represents a theory and practice of law enforcement that works through secret societies and related networks, which forms the African American (though she is not) component of the larger pseudo-Crowleyite occult network that forms the ideological glue of the Deep-State nexus. They may use occult symbolism and certain rites and rituals, and project a radical theory on spirituality as well, which is reinforced by the African and syncretic (Afro-Caribbean, deep-south) religious studies departments at HBCUs – themselves the chief recruiting ground for BLM leader-activists. Among the deities worshipped is Ogou-Feray, a god of war, law enforcement, vengeance as justice, and iron tools and weapons.

On top of that, Harris’ theory of law enforcement informs other local District Attorneys in areas that BLM-Antifa riots are needed, so that a ‘catch and release’ policy can be put in place and justified along apparently legally sound grounds, normally surrounding 1^st Amendment rights. This is one where violent acts are interpreted as protected speech, borrowing heavily from legal theory that protects avante-garde art displays of violence in the public sphere, such as those of performance artist and Rothschild consultant, Marina Abramovic.

There really isn’t an Antifa without these financial and legal backers, but since we now have a large population already indoctrinated, they are still capable of carrying out smaller attacks even without their backers in place. And moreover, the foundation for Antifa type organizations in the future will continue to exist so long as rampant unemployment persists.

Create a Production and Work Driven Society

The long-term solution means creating new jobs at livable wages through the re-negotiation of trade agreements and moves towards an autarchy-based economy.

This shutdown and quarantine has led to the single-largest upwards redistribution of wealth since Obama’s banker bail-outs and quantitative easing, providing Antifa ample recruiting ground.

That same 2007 global crisis led to the Arab Spring phenomenon, and the formation of ISIS – which it was intended to by those same oligarchs who were behind both.

The tactic did not begin with building insurrectionary groups and fomenting a radical discourse. The org skeletons and ideological tropes have long been in play, just as modern politicized Salafism has been around since before Qutb in the 1950’s.

It actually begins with neoliberal austerity measures, the privatization of government sectors over to the NGO sphere, moving those from sovereign state hands to international NGO/philanthropic hands. These NGOs which exist to fill the same void caused by the austerity which was the forced policy of the same NGO backers, then uses its physical facilities and email lists of clients to propagandize the public against the government. This happened overtly in places like Egypt and Syria, leading to the Arab Spring (hence ‘Color/Spring). It is as planned as it is cynical.

So while it’s easy to paint Antifa activists as largely young, idealistic, and prone to manipulation by America’s rapacious oligarchy who operationalize them towards their own ends – we would point out that these activists have long been deprived of the basic dignity that one derives from work. We aren’t talking fairy tale work, as in ‘dream jobs’, but simply steady work with tolerable conditions, which pay the bills, and in that sense, work with dignity.

A lot of these globalist oligarch NGOs also create jobs by day which are staffed by Antifa rioters by night. There is a social need for these NGO services, though there would be less of a need with a productive economy that avoids the social ills that NGOs patch over. Those remaining services that NGOs provide, ought to be public governmental entities that are democratically managed at the local governmental level, suited to the needs and organic belief systems of the relevant community it serves, and not controlled by globalist oligarchs.

We would also point out that the families of these Antifa activists are largely those which never recovered from the 2007 market crash, and were hit again in 2020 under the pretenses of Covid-19.

It has been this betrayal of the working-middle class by the Democrats – their own supposed electorate – that has provided adequate human material to form the looter-rioter armies which Democrats themselves operationalize in the Color strategy against Trump. This is what the planners wanted.

Defund Humanities Departments Promoting Divisive Critical Race and Gender Theory

While old left criticisms of capitalism are a part of Antifa ideology, the new left distortion and distraction of those pent-up frustrations stemming from unresolved social ills, is transferred onto abstract and de-classed identity politics issues relating to gender ideology – one that has even surpassed the identity politics of race. This much explains in part why the BLM Corporation ‘platform’ emphasizes the need to end the black nuclear family as an institution of patriarchy and gender hegemony.

There may also be a need to closely examine the extra-curricular activities of professors of western occultism and religious studies, as well as those at HBCUs, as well as performance art professors, with regard to insidious occult recruitment.

Defunding humanities departments in universities that embrace critical gender and critical race theory – that maleness and whiteness are the inherent problems needing moderation. Those views have served as a convenient distraction from class issues brought upon society by the very same rapacious oligarchs who are able to operationalize the same mob they have created through their policies.

It means tying a public higher education system and student debt relief to technical training. A liberal education and graduation requirements including arts, philosophy, history, and the humanities in general are undoubtedly critical in developing rounded and cultured citizens with the critical thinking skills to understand the world outside of their narrow specialization. But the subsumption of the humanities by critical race and gender theories has in fact led to an erosion of that cultured roundedness, and a dogmatic tunnel vision that reduces the vastness of the human experience to power relations along the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (to a lessening extent), class.

Rehabilitate its hardened members

In stopping Antifa it is tempting to fall back on emotionally appealing, reactionary, and short-sighted ‘law and order’ solutions which later on will have a far greater negative effect on the freedoms and liberties of all.

However, actual instances of Antifa violence – especially where life, property, and voter enfranchisement are harmed – will need to be dealt swiftly and decisively using the gendarmerie of the state. Antifa’s own fascist tactics are turning the public against it. Where local prosecutors and elected officials have come under the sway of the same oligarchs who finance the Antifa violence, then the federal government will have to act.

This allows the state gendarmerie to act in defense of constitutional norms against an extra-legal and violent threat to civil society. In the war of public perception, despite widespread mainstream media indulgence, Antifa violence is widely unpopular. Rasmussen shows that 49% view Antifa as a terrorist organization, which would strongly imply that most of those who do not view it so would still not view them fondly.

The most constitutionally dangerous approach would be to treat the bulk of Antifa adherents as anything other than Americans endowed with the same rights and responsibilities under the law. ‘Othering’ them in such a way that it dehumanizes them and, in the American context, views them as something other than citizens with rights, for example, to speech and association (in both the public and monopoly-private sphere), would result in a miscarriage of justice and would be morally similar to the Antifa problem itself.

While it will be necessary to charge individual members with crimes they are themselves responsible for, the temptation to fall towards a ‘guilt by association’ line of prosecution will prove disastrous for the republic.

They have been inculcated into a cult-like group which has been reinforced by many vectors in society at large, outside of their control and agency, and the desired approach would be rehabilitation.

It is important in the course of rehabilitation that its adherents be heard and understood, and the belief system tangled up around it be untangled from the catastrophic methods and billionaire oligarch financial support ties that define them in reality.

Conclusion

All of the real-existing economic problems in the U.S. form the foundation for Antifa volatility. But those controlling Antifa ideology at the level of social media and the university system, have added ‘new left’ distractions on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. While its real leaders, who happen to be elected politicians and NGO-controlling ‘philanthropist’ elites must be held ultimately accountable under conspiracy charges, the balaclava donning arsonist thugs in the street must be dealt with using the full force of the law here and now, wherever life, liberty, property, and democratic processes are demonstrably harmed.

The Italian writer and movie-maker Ennio Flaiano (1910-1972), who lived through fascism (1920s and 1930s), WW2 and Italy’s post-war economic miracle (1950s and 1960s), once famously remarked:

“In Italy, fascists fall into two categories: fascists and antifascists.”

He was referring to the belligerent, intolerant attitude he saw on the left, especially, but not only, among far-left radicals.

Like all political categories, fascism has different shades of meaning, but it is really a byword for politically motivated violence.

And just like a mutant virus evading the host’s immune system, intolerant people and belligerent mobs only need to label themselves “anti-fascists” to indulge in violence without a spade being called a spade.

The global elites see the spade, though. And use it.

Blind, Unwitting Adherence to the Mainstream Narrative

Antifa: Was wollen Linksradikale? (“What do left radicals want?”) is a reportage shot in Berlin by team Reporter.

“What kind of Germany do you imagine?”, asks the journalist to a few local Antifa activists who uncharacteristically agreed to speak to the media:

“First of all, there will be no Germany”, is the reply.

“One would wake up in a world without borders, in which every human being is welcomed. And everybody has the same rights.”

This might sound all very John Lennon, but the fascist wolf in the anti-fascist sheep’s clothing shines through.

On his black cap, the interviewee bears the inscription “Killing Nazis”. He advocates burning company premises such as Coca-Cola; describes extremism as a “necessity”; and justifies violence as a means to an end.

German far-left extremists committed 9,849 crimes in 2019 alone, up by 23,7% from 2018, according to figures released by the Verfassungsschutz (“German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution”).

If the thug element is apparent, so is the useful idiot one.

“What does motivate you in the first place?”, asks the journo.

“I stand up for human rights. I’ve seen many videos of the refugees camps. All those refugees drowning. I thought I must do something”.

“Radical left extremism is necessary to get politicians act”, adds the activist, “because look at Friday for Future. Nothing happened afterwards”.

What is striking about Antifa’s (and, to a lesser extent, BLM’s) ideology is its utter adherence with the mainstream narrative: human rights, refugees crisis, climate emergency.

The topics Antifa and BLM are silent about also point to such adherence.

Back in the late 1960’s, in the West, there was the Anti-War movement. Mass demos would take place demanding the end of the war in Vietnam.

Today, no words against 20 years of ongoing NATO imperialist wars.

Not by chance ANTIFA & BLM are the U.S. Deep State’s favorite ideologies.

Their followers worldwide are like the ostrich: they stick their head into the injustice of the past, while ignoring the imperialist wars of the present.

No Borders, Please. We’re the Bosses’ Watchdogs

The Italian Neo-Marxist philosopher Diego Fusaro has formulated a syllogism to unmasks Antifa’s & BLM’s activists, whom he brands as “fuchsia brigades”, as opposed to the red of the real, Marxist left:

1) the bosses want open seaports, to circulate goods and commodified people [the migrants].

2) the fuchsias brigades defame those who oppose open seaports as fascists.

3) the fuchsias brigades call their pathetic struggle against everything that opposes the bosses, of which they are the watchdogs, “fight against fascism”.

The “No Border” ideology is thus functional to the delivery of a, as Marx would call it, “reserve army” of uprooted, quasi-slave African Labor.

Cancel Culture: Paving the Way for Markets Totalitarianism

But the globalists agenda does not stop here.

Enter Antifa’s & BLM’s iconoclastic fury – destroying statues, etc.

Theirs is not a generic “appetite for destruction”, to quote a famous hard metal song. It is a targeted, iconoclastic appetite for destruction.

And it is that iconoclastic fury that, more than anything else, characterizes Antifa’s and BLM’s riots and mass protests this summer in the U.S.A.

So much that commentators had to find a name for it: “cancel culture”.

The question is: Why this cancel culture, why now?

To paraphrase Lincoln’s definition of democracy, the global elites’ vision is that of a society 1) of markets, 2) run by markets, 3) for the markets.

Since the end of the Cold War, bits 2 and 3 have turned into reality.   National governments are ever more heavily influenced and restrained in their scope by international organizations far away the reach of citizens and very close to the reaches of multinational companies.

We are already in a society run by markets – via the smokescreen of international organizations and governance -, for the markets, witness the ever-growing concentration of economic power in few hands (Jeff Bezos’s wealth is comparable to Spain’s GDP).

What most people still do not realize, is that the global elites are now into bit 1, the creation of a society of markets, and not solely, as it already is, run by markets, for the markets.

Capitalism Unbound: One Step to Total Victory

The central insight of the Italian Neo-Marxist school of philosophy – Costanzo Preve (1943-2013), and his star disciple Diego Fusaro – is that global capitalism, to triumph, needs to erase everything – not just trade unions, universal healthcare and free education, but also family values, biological sex identity, religions, nation-states, etc. – everything that does not have a price, and as such poses a limit, an obstacle to the realization of the cash-nexus society, in which all human relations are expressed as financial transactions.

Western culture, its classical and modern heritage, its heroes and founding fathers, being irreducibly different from financial transactions, hence not for sale, is on capitalism’s way to global dominion.

The society envisaged by the global elites is one in which people interact with each other solely via the cash-nexus, points out Fusaro – all non-financial relations having turned into financial relations or dissolved.

As long as something exists – natural child-bearing, caring for one’s elderly parents, faith in God, love, friendship, patriotism, historical memory, etc. – that cannot be expressed in financial terms, as long as something – anything – not for sale survives from the old, pre-globalization world, then Capitalism will be bounded by it.

But like a fourth stage cancer, global capitalism knows no boundaries and destroys everything on its path.

And it has several tools at its disposals – from “humanitarian wars” abroad to “anti-fascist” mobs at home.

Those are really two sides of the same coin.

So what really is the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone cum People’s Republic all about?

Are the communards mere useful idiots? Is this a refined Occupy Wall Street experiment? Could it survive, logistically, and be replicated in NYC, L.A. and D.C.?

An outraged President Trump has described it as a plot by “domestic terrorists” in a city “run by radical left Democrats”. He called for “LAW & ORDER” (in caps, according to his Tweetology).

Shades of Syria in Seattle are visibly discernable. Under this scenario, the Commune is a remixed Idlib fighting “regime counter-insurgency outposts” (in communard terminology).

For most American Right factions, Antifa equals ISIS. George Floyd is regarded not only as a “communist Antifa martyr”, as an intel operative told me, but a mere “criminal and drug dealer”.

So when will “regime forces” strike – in this case without Russian air cover? After all, as dictated by Secretary Esper, it’s up to the Pentagon to “dominate the battlefield”.

But we’ve got a problem. Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is supported by the city of Seattle – run by a Democrat – which is supported by the governor of Washington State, also a Democrat.

There’s no chance Washington State will use the National Guard to crush CHAZ. And Trump cannot take over Washington State National Guard without the approval of the governor, even though he has tweeted, “Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game.”

It’s enlightening to observe that “counter-insurgency” can be applied in Afghanistan and the tribal areas; to occupy Iraq; to protect the looting of oil/gas in eastern Syria. But not at home. Even if 58% of Americans would actually support it: for many among them, the Commune may be as bad if not worse than looting.

But then there are those firmly opposed. Among them: the “Butcher of Fallujah” Mad Dog Mattis; color revolution practitioners NED; Nike;

JP Morgan; the whole Democratic Party establishment; and virtually the whole U.S. Army establishment.

Welcome to the Only Occupy Others movement.

Still the question remains: how long will “Idlib” be able to defy the “regime”? That’s enough to cause an alleged “bully”, Attorney General Barr, many a sleepless night.

Real Black Power

Trump and Barr have already threatened to criminalize Antifa as a “terrorist organization” – even as Black Lives Matter has pointed a yellow dagger in the asphalt of 16th St. in D.C. towards the White House.

And that brings us to the across the board legitimacy enjoyed by Black Lives Matter. How’s that possible? Here is a good place to start.

Black Lives Matter, founded in 2013 by a trio of middle class, queer black women very vocal against “hetero-patriarchy”, is a product of what University of British Columbia’s Peter Dauvergne defines as “corporatization of activism”.

Over the years, Black Lives Matter evolved as a marketing brand, like Nike (which fully supports it). The widespread George Floyd protests elevated it to the status of a new religion. Yet Black Lives Matter carries arguably zero, true revolutionary appeal. This is not James Brown’s “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”. And it does not get even close to Black Power and the Black Panthers’ “Power to the People”.

The gold standard on civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King, in 1968, concisely framed the – structural – heart of the matter:

“The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced.”

The Black Panthers, young, extremely articulated intellectuals who had mixed Marx, Lenin, Mao, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and Frantz “Wretched of the Earth” Fanon took MLK’s diagnosis to a whole new level.

As summed up by the Panthers’ Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver: “We believe in the need for a unified revolutionary movement … informed by the revolutionary principles of scientific socialism.” That synthesized the insights of MLK, who was, crucially, a proponent of color blindness.

Fred Hampton, the target of a de facto state assassination in December 1969, made sure the struggle transcended race: “We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I’m talking about the white masses, I’m talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don’t fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.”

So this is not only about race. This is not only about class. This is about Power to the People fighting for social, political and economic justice under a system that’s intrinsically unequal. It expands on the in-depth analysis by Gerald Horne in The Dawning of the Apocalypse, where the 16th century is fully dissected, “creation myth” of the U.S. included.

Horne shows how a bloodthirsty invasion of the Americas engendered fierce resistance by Africans and their indigenous populations allies, weakening imperial Spain and finally enabling London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607.

Now compare this depth of analysis with the meek, almost begging for mercy “Black Lives Matter” slogan. One is reminded, once again, of Malcolm X’s sharpness: “We had the best organization the black man’s ever had—niggers ruined it!”

To solve the Black Lives Matter question, one must, once again, follow the money.

Black Lives Matter profited in 2016 from a humongous $100 million grant from the Ford Foundation and other philanthropic capitalism stalwarts such as JPMorgan Chase and the Kellogg Foundation.

The Ford Foundation is very close to the U.S. Deep State. The board of directors is crammed with corporate CEOs and Wall Street honchos. In a nutshell; Black Lives Matter, the organization, today is fully sanitized; largely integrated into the Democratic Party machine; adored by mainstream media; and certainly does not represent a threat to the 0.001%.

The Black Lives Matter leadership, of course, argues that this time, “it’s different. Elaine Brown, the formidable former chairwoman of the Black Panthers, takes no prisoners: Black Lives Matter has a “plantation mentality”.

Try to set the night on fire

Set the Night on Fire is an extraordinarily absorbing book co-written by Jon Wiener and the inestimable Mike Davis of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums.

Cataloguing in exhaustive detail the L.A. of the Sixties, we are plunged into the Watts riots in 1965; the antiwar movement joining the Black Panthers to form a uniquely Californian Peace and Freedom Party; the evolving grassroots unity of the Black Power ethos; the Che-Lumumba club of the Communist Party – which would become the political base of legendary Angela Davis; and the massive FBI and LAPD offensive to destroy the Black Panthers.

Tom Wolfe notoriously – and viciously – characterized L.A. supporters of the Black Panthers as ‘radical chic”. Elaine Brown once again sets the record straight: “We were dying, and all of them, the strongest and the most frivolous, were helping us survive another day.”

One of the most harrowing sections of the book details how the FBI went after Panthers sympathizers, including the sublime Jean Seberg, the star of Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan (1957) and Godard’s Breathless (1960).

Jean Seberg contributed anonymously to the Panthers under the codename “Aretha” (yes, as in Franklin). The FBI’s COINTELPRO took no prisoners to go after Seberg, enrolling the CIA, military intel and the Secret Service. She was smeared as a “sex-perverted white actress” – as in having affairs with black radicals. Her Hollywood career was destroyed. She went into deep depression, had a stillbirth (the baby was not black), emigrated, and her – decomposed – body was found in her car in Paris in 1979.

In contrast, there have been academic rumblings identifying the sea of converts to the Black Lives Matter religion as mostly products of the marriage between wokeness and intersectionality – the set of interlinked traits that since birth privileges heterosexual white men, now trying to expiate their guilt.

Generation Z, unleashed en masse from college campuses across the U.S. into the jobs market, is a prisoner of this phenomenon: in fact a slave to – politically correct – identity politics. And once again, carrying zero revolutionary potential.

Compare it once again to immense political sacrifices of the Black Panthers. Or when Angela Davis, already a pop icon, became the most famous black political prisoner in American history. Aretha Franklin, when volunteering to post bail for Davis, famously framed it: “I’ve been locked up for disturbing the peace, and I know you’ve got to disturb the peace when you can’t get no peace.”

Elaine Brown: “I know what the BPP [Black Panther Party] was. I know the lives we lost, the struggle we put into place, the efforts we made, the assaults on us by the police and government – I know all that. I don’t know what Black Lives Matter does.”

It’s open to endless debate whether Black Lives Matter is intrinsically racist and even inherently violent.

And it’s also debatable whether taking a knee, now a household ritual practiced by politicians (complete with Kente scarves from Ghana), cops and corporations, really threatens the foundations of Empire.

Noam Chomsky has already ventured that the protest wave so far carries zero political articulation – and badly needs a strategic direction, far beyond the obvious revolt against police brutality.

The protests are dying down just as the Commune emerges.

Depending on its evolution that may pose a serious problem to Trump/Barr. The President simply cannot allow a running color revolution to develop in the middle of a major American city. At the same time he’s impotent as a federal authority to dissolve the Commune.

What the White House can do is to dog whistle its own counter-insurgency units, in the form of armed to their teeth white supremacist militias, to go on the offensive and crush the already flimsy supply lines of the wokeness-cum-intersectionality crowd.

Occupy after all took over key areas of 60 American cities for months just to suddenly dissolve into the ether.

Additionally, the Deep State has already war-gamed plenty of scenarios to deal with siege situations way more complex than the Commune.

Whatever happens next, one key vector is immutable. A state of permanent insurrection only benefits the 0.00001% plutocracy comfortably ensconced while the plebs set the night on fire.