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“While the Antifascist Action and all opposing groups were banned after Hitler became head of state, the antifa communist ideology never went away. From the ashes of WWII, it was absorbed and institutionalized in the official state ideology of what would become the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany. From 1949 to 1990, East Germany existed as a communist state carved out of the Weimar Republic by the Soviet Union, one of WWII’s victorious Allied leaders. For over forty years, the extremely repressive conditions in East Germany exemplified what “antifa” state-building actually looks like.”

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Book:Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
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“Fyssas’s murder was a turning point for the broad anti-fascist left in Greece. The Golden Dawn had always met dedicated resistance to its violent attacks on migrants, leftists, critics, and journalists, but the fatal stabbing of a left-wing rapper in public was kerosene to the anti-fascist fire that had long burned in many Greeks’ hearts.”

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Book:Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle
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“Both the extreme left and right seek to undermine liberal democracy and the rule of law, whether through the use of violence or other means. They have differing political visions and goals, but both would result in the destruction of the liberties we value.”

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Book:Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
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“American media constantly warn us about the rise of right-wing violence and the lethal threat posed by white supremacy. No honest person denies there are indeed violent far-right militants in the United States, as documented by federal law enforcement, but their numbers and influence are grossly exaggerated by biased media. Antifa receive a tiny fraction of the news coverage of the far right, and yet I would argue their increasingly violent tactics and ideology pose just as much, if not more, of a threat to the future of American liberal democracy.”

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Book:Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
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“At the moment, the threat of the far right is understood by the American public and actively countered by government, academia, media, and civil society. No comparable resolve or mass organization exists to counter the far left. Why? One explanation is the cultural dominance of the left. The political homogeneity in popular culture, academe, and urban centers of influence (e.g., New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, etc.) has produced a populace with severe blind spots.”

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Book:Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
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“Undoubtedly street blockades and other forms of confrontational opposition can be very useful against any political opponent, but once far-right formations have managed to broadcast their xenophobic, dystopian platforms, it is incumbent upon us to drown them out with even better alternatives to the austerity and incompetence of the governing parties of the Right & Left. On its own, militant anti-fascism is necessary but not sufficient to build a new world in the shell of the old.”

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Book:Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
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“Despite the odium and widespread condemnation of Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, he passed with all the fanfare of a fart in a mesh sack. Medical examiners said it was a thrombotic stroke, likely exacerbated by obesity and high blood pressure. Some said cocaine and opioids had been found in his system, but these reports were never confirmed. Trump was dead, and now it was time to start glossing over his dismal legacy and perpetuating his vision, posthumously, for Making America Great Again...”

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Book:Freedom City
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“Ο φασίστας είναι μια μούμια που της φύγαν όλοι οι χυμοί της ζωής, είναι ένας νεκροζώντανος, ένας ζόμπι που πρέπει να ταφεί το ταχύτερο, καταρχήν για λόγους δημόσιας υγείας.”

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Book:Η μεγάλη περιπέτεια του μαρξισμού
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“The BLM-antifa narrative that police are murdering black and brown people in epidemic proportions needs to be thoroughly debunked. It is not supported by the evidence or data. This should be the job of the media, but it has been they who fan the flames of racial division through one-sided wall-to-wall coverage. The unending distraction from real issues that can otherwise be addressed through evidence-based policy making has us chasing shadows.”

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Book:Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
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“I’m angry at them, but I still see their humanity and don’t wish them ill. I actually feel sympathy for those pulled and brainwashed into antifa’s twisted ideology. They are often exploited and used by a movement that explicitly rejects the value of individuals in favor of the cause.”

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Book:Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
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“he resented Golz's orders, and the necessity for them. He resented them for what they could do to him and for what they could do to this old man. They were bad orders all right for those who would have to carry them out. And that is not the way to think, he told himself, and there is not you, and there are no people that things must not happen to. Neither you nor this old man is anything. You are instruments to do your duty. There are necessary orders that are no fault of yours and there is a bridge and that bridge can be the point on which the future of the human race can turn. As it can turn on anything that happens in this war.”

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Book:For Whom the Bell Tolls
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“C'è infatti in Germania una quantità di sinceri antifascisti che sono più delusi, più disorientati e più sconfitti di quanto lo siano i simpatizzanti nazisti: delusi perchè la liberazione non è stata radicale come si erano aspettai; disorientati perchè non vogliono solidarizzare con il malcontento dei tedeschi, in cui si trovano a rintracciare troppo nazismo nascosto, nè con la politica degli alleati, di cui osservano con costernazione l'indulgenza nei confronti dei vecchi nazisti; e infine sconfitti , perchè in quanto tedeschi dubitano di poter far valere la loro quota di partecipazione alla vittoria alleata, e allo stesso tempo, in quanto antinazisti, non sono altrettanto convinti di non avere alcuna responsabilità nella sconfitta tedesca.”

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Book:German autumn
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“I was taken aback by the expression. How, I wondered, could anyone be a premature anti-Fascist? Could there be anything such as a premature antidote to a poison? A premature antiseptic? A premature antitoxin? A premature anti-racist? If you were not premature, what sort of anti-Fascist were you supposed to be? A punctual anti-Fascist? A timely one? In fact, in the '30s, as the European situation moved inexorably toward war, the British and French governments (the French often under pressure from the British) passed up one timely opportunity after another to become anti-Fascist.”

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Author:Bernard Knox
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“Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanised state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right - or rather, your moral duty - to eliminate this system? - 3rd Leaflet of the White Rose”

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Book:The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
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“There is a fascist way of being antifascist, is a reflection that arises from seeing how, often, the accusation of being fascist is used, in the most varied contexts. as a low-key dialectical argument to close a discussion for which one has no case. Perhaps it is because when all one is capable of doing is opposing an idea one ends up representing that same idea in the mirror.”

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Author:Luigina Sgarro
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“Legacy Letter from Beta Metani-Marashi Palm Coast, Florida – October 15, 2025 To my children, my grandchildren, and those who will come after, I did not survive communism so you could live in its shadow. I did not cross oceans, endure loss, or rebuild my life twenty times so you could forget what tyranny looks like when it wears a friendly face. I was raised in a world where truth was punished, faith was forbidden, and family was fractured. We were told what to think, what to say, even what to feel. I escaped that world—not just for myself, but for you. Now I see the same tactics repackaged in new slogans. They call it progress. I call it a warning. You must never forget: freedom is not inherited—it is earned, guarded, and passed down like sacred fire. It lives in your choices, your courage, and your refusal to be manipulated by fear or flattery. You will be told that resistance is hate. That tradition is oppression. That questioning is dangerous. Don’t believe it. I built this home as a sanctuary. Not just of walls and windows, but of values. Faith. Family. Legacy. You are the heirs of that sanctuary. And you must protect it—not just with words, but with wisdom. I don’t wish my past on anyone. Not even those who oppose me. But I do wish you the strength to recognize tyranny when it smiles. And the grace to fight it without becoming it. You are my greatest testimony. Live boldly. Love fiercely. And never forget where you come from—or what I left behind so you could rise. With all my heart, Beta”

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Author:Zybejta Beta Metani'Marashi
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