Wolf in the thorns | skeletonmug: left-reminders: “If you’re a...

skeletonmug:

left-reminders:
“If you’re a fascist and anti-fascists come for you, you have a choice. You can give it up. You can go renounce what you said. You could just go on with the rest of your life and stop turning up at fascist rallies. Anti-fascists probably aren’t gonna buy you a pint and be your best friend, but they’ll move on. But if you’re a person of color, if you’re trans, or a person with a disability, or gay, or Jewish, and fascists come for you, there is nothing you can do that can make them happy, except stop existing. That’s the key difference between the far left and the far right. Anti-fascists organize themselves against those that are building fascism. If you’re doing that, that is something you can non-violently stop doing. If you’re a political enemy of antifa, you can become a friend. If you’re a political enemy of fascism, though, either they lose or you die.”

— @realphilosophytube , from “The Philosophy of Antifa”
(via dagwolf)
This described it almost perfectly.
However I think we need to separate fascism from the left/right spectrum of politics.
Fascists can and sometimes do come from either end of the spectrum. At the moment, yes, a lot of fascists are associated with right wing politics but it’s not exclusive. Don’t think because somebody is a lefty that they can’t be a fascist. It’s devastating when that’s proved wrong.
Fascism and social liberalism are on a different axis to left and right.