Thanks. It’s certainly an obscure term, but not meaningless. And whatever one thinks of Antifa, they’re not defenders of liberal democracy.https://twitter.com/wycats/status/944613060735516673 …
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Well the Hitler/Stalin comparison goes too far, but honesty I don’t think that many people are defending Antifa. They’re just not that important.
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Yeah I was trying to squeeze it into a tweet. I buy the "not important" explanation for why it didn't stir up more noise.
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You have to take a look at the economic history of liberal democracy to understand many of the participants in antifa action skepticism of it. Leftists tend to reject the traditional notions of private property that govern the relationship between gov and it’s people.
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I understand the skepticism but I think it's also legitimate for people to want political actors to work in terms of the political system we have. It's also fine to say "no thanks" but at that point a lot of people will have trouble seeing why they're the good guys. L
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I've said before that I appreciate the need for people to counter protest Nazis, and also that such protests should be prepared to tussle and get violent (it's a Nazi counterprotest!). But that's a moral calculus from the perspective of liberal democracy.
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