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.
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.