Breaking: Antifa founders identified!

[malthaussen]

38. Frankly, that's absurd. For one thing, it lacks Joe Stalin.

But the concept that FDR and Winston Churchill were the original "founders" of Anti-Fascism is ahistorical. Indeed, the real anti-Fascists from the start were the Communists, which is why the US Government designated certain people "premature anti-Fascists" when anti-Fascism became fashionable. "Premature anti-Fascist" was code for "dirty stinking Commie."

The idea boggles the mind, really. "Prematurely" anti-Fascist? Like there was a time when it was okay to be pro-Fascist. And there's the rub: there was a time when it was okay to be pro-Fascist, until the Fascists started making life complicated for Big Business and the Western Democracies. Fortunately, we were able to fight the Fascists to the last Russian (compare the casualty figures for WW2 sometime). Then belatedly "liberate" Western Europe and brag about how we won the war.

-- Mal