Antifa is a movement against fascism. But is everything so simple?

Technical progress, the development of various fields of activity, the development of a common culture are all observed in the course of the development of the modern world. However, this is not all. Within the emergence of organizations and trends, those who set themselves the goal of permanently eradicating certain, in the opinion of their representatives, destructive influence on society categories arise or are renewed. One such movement is the antifa - this is the international community, which sets as its goal the struggle against any manifestations of fascism.

History of occurrence

Antifa is a subculture whose full name is "anti-fascism", uniting under its flag representatives of the left and left radical party sector, as well as independent groups and organizations that eradicate racism and neo-Nazism.

This concept first appeared in Italy during the time of Mussolini. The term "antifa", "against fascism", denoted the opponents of the military leader and dictator, the system he planted.

Since 1923, such an association existed in Germany. Its members belonged to the Communist Party of Germany in the Weimar Republic, but later the anti-fascist trend attracted socialists. Be that as it may, neither one nor the other was a revolutionist, and did not fight against fascism as such, but denied it in terms of future progressivity and advocated the ideals of the Weimar Republic. When the country was headed by A. Hitler, the term was forgotten, it was used extremely rarely and was associated with the resistance of the Communists.

In the USSR, antifa is a contradictory policy

Yes, anti-fascism existed in the Soviet Union as part of the struggle against the invaders during the Second World War, and, hence, the Great Patriotic War. Thus, many prisoners were trained and treated in antifa forcibly, became communists, such as the prisoner of war from Hungary Pal Maleter.

However, the actions of the leadership of the USSR were not consistent, which was skillfully used by Hitler and Nazi Germany as a debunkment of the entire movement. So, the Soviet Union returned hundreds of political communist emigrants back to their native country, where they were not expected to do anything other than torture, torture and death.

Modern movement

Today antifa are organizations, associations and communities that set as their main task the eradication of any fascist tendencies, including fascism, Nazism, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, chauvinism and everything that can be attributed to discrimination. Sometimes representatives of this trend act even against capitalism.

Especially the idea of antifa is developed in European countries, where as a whole the "left" ideology is more firmly rooted than in Russia. Anti-fascists prevent the marches of neo-Nazis, disrupt their actions. In general, it can be said that representatives of these opposing movements often avoid problems that they seem to be engaged in, and go to war directly with each other, and often it ends in blood.

So, 2009 can be commemorated as tragic for the entire Russian anti-fascist movement, since it was then that journalist Anastasia Baburova, lawyer Stanislav Markelov and activist Ivan Khutorskaya , nicknamed Kostol, were killed. Each of them was a representative of the antifa. These cases are just a drop in the ocean, and aggression and one and the other reaction reacts with reciprocal aggression, and violence breeds violence. So, despite the denial of anti-fascists, there is death on their account - in the fall of 2012 a student Alexander Dudin, who supported nationalist views, during a small skirmish was stabbed in the stomach. He did not have time to take him to the hospital, and he died in an ambulance.

On youth slang opponents of anti-fascists are called bonuses - they are ultra-right, radical-minded nationalists, followers of the so-called. Bonism. Earlier it was easy to identify them - they were skinhead skinheads in turtles, but today such distinctive features are mixed with others and in general partially came to naught. Bons, in turn, call antifascists jerks.

Antifa in Russia

In our country, anti-fascists are people of the most diverse political and philosophical views, united by the main general idea. Today antifa are communists, socialists, anarchists, liberals and even those who are far from being connected with politics; Skinheads, rappers, punks and other subcultural youth associations. All of them, as a rule, exist in separate autonomous groups that promote and develop the movement based on their own resources and capabilities - draw graffiti on the walls and post educational posters, distribute information on the Internet or act in the vein of full-fledged planned actions. Is the antif movement refilled? Moscow, which initially had a much smaller number of representatives of this current, now focuses on its territory already thousands of anti-fascists, and this figure only continues to grow continuously.

Symbol

The main attribute of the antif are the red and black flags, which the activists adopted from the "Anti-fascist action" - the movement of the Second World War, which was an integral part of the German Front.

Sites, newspapers and other resources for anti-fascists

To date, the resource base of anti-fascists is quite developed. So, there are specialized pages in social networks devoted to the introduction to the essence of the movement, anarchic sites that also consider this topic, and various samizdat periodicals, magazines and newspapers.