Not the boots on ground. The boots on ground are a bunch of dumb ideologically subverted teenagers who think they are forming a revolution against tyranny.
The problem with having an army of brainwashed slaves is that they can be turned if they realize they are being led around by the nose ring while ssomebody else is actually trying to tear down the system.
As someone who was balls deep in anarchism for 20 years, you are correct.
The big performative BLM/antifa "protests" are most certainly government-approved and corporate-endorsed, and the citizen-on-citizen violence and destruction of small businesses does not threaten the elite. It emboldens them.
But most people who are actual "antifa members" are your disenfranchised types who hate the system, but happened to discover Peter Kropotkin before Thomas Paine.
I actually wouldn't be surprised to see an antifa/patriot alliance in the coming years. "Political compass" bullshit is becoming moot and we're seeing a rise in both the anti-idpol left and the anti-corporatist right, making the groups overlap. The lockdowns have also shaken many a leftoid's faith in the Democrat establishment.
There are really only two sides: freedom and tyranny. Different folks reach this conclusion in different ways.
That’s NOT what Antifa wants, they are not anarchists, they are radical Marxist authoritarians that want to enslave you:
Not the boots on ground. The boots on ground are a bunch of dumb ideologically subverted teenagers who think they are forming a revolution against tyranny.
The problem with having an army of brainwashed slaves is that they can be turned if they realize they are being led around by the nose ring while ssomebody else is actually trying to tear down the system.
They also want a bunch of free shit from the government.
They've actually been chanting 'fuck trump fuck biden, burn it all down!' for weeks and they are super pissed over the $600.
They want free money, but they've figured out the dems aren't going to give it.
As someone who was balls deep in anarchism for 20 years, you are correct.
The big performative BLM/antifa "protests" are most certainly government-approved and corporate-endorsed, and the citizen-on-citizen violence and destruction of small businesses does not threaten the elite. It emboldens them.
But most people who are actual "antifa members" are your disenfranchised types who hate the system, but happened to discover Peter Kropotkin before Thomas Paine.
I actually wouldn't be surprised to see an antifa/patriot alliance in the coming years. "Political compass" bullshit is becoming moot and we're seeing a rise in both the anti-idpol left and the anti-corporatist right, making the groups overlap. The lockdowns have also shaken many a leftoid's faith in the Democrat establishment.
There are really only two sides: freedom and tyranny. Different folks reach this conclusion in different ways.