As anarchist I would have a lot of things to say about antifascism, mostly critics. I am not writing this text to do a theorical critics on antifascism, although I would like first to point out the mistake (to me) of focusing in only one particular thing, the same way as I think that antiracism or feminism, alone, are a mistake. Why, you would ask. Because, as anarchists we are well aware that the world is much more complex than a simple and easy manichean view on it, or on the society. There’s not only « monsters » and good people. Fascism is not the evil coming from the nowhere, but it’s the result of the society against wich anarchists are struggling since the 19th century, and before the coming of the European official fascism the world was not such a paradise, racism was existing, there were pogroms, women were badly treatened, children were working in mines, genocide was already part of the human history, workers were dying early because of a terrible exploitation, and anarchists were persecuted, sentenced to death or send to penal colonies in the Pacific islands or South America. Focusing only in fascism is a mistake because it’s build up a big evil, that doesn’t even have a lot of sense nowadays (what is fascism exactly again ? ), and to fight this big evil most of the time antifascists are acting threw the saying « the enemy of my enemy is my friend ». And this leads to a really problematic confusion among the antifascist movement (I am not talking about every antifascists of course, some know well where it stinks and with who they don’t want to hang out). But it also makes that you only see one single problem in this society, you only focuse on one thing, and erase all the rest.
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