This Is Antifa

We’ve talked about who I am and who we are. Now let’s talk about why we’re here.

Fundamentally why we’re here is to lead the way to eliminating the tendencies toward fascism from the human body politic.

We recognize this to be not a goal with a finish line but an ongoing, recursive, strategy for ensuring the survival and progress of humanity, born of the always-evolving, always-progressing nature of our species.

The freer and more educated we are, given the reasonable limits of not harming others, the more completely we maintain observation of the prime directive.

Any ideology that undermines that prime directive is a threat to our existence.

Fascism is a threat – not a distant potential threat but a clear and present danger – to the continued existence of the human race.

We will not normalize it, tolerate it, or pretend it’s just another opinion in the marketplace of ideas.

We are here to de-socialize fascism. To make it shameful again. To confront it not with violence, but with clarity, visibility, and refusal.

We are not here to win arguments. There is no argument in favor of fascism or any similar ideology that successfully upholds the prime directive. We’ve spent the last couple of hundred thousand years proving it repeatedly. It’s time to move forward and stop re-litigating the question of whether competition and violence is a more effective way to keep the species alive and progressing than freedom and education. It isn’t, we know it, all of history proves it, it’s time to let it go.

We are here to stop the current ongoing collapse into fascism being observed not just in the United States but in much of the so-called democratic world. We recognize the current situation as reflecting the last desperate attempt of an entirely toxic and intolerable way of thinking to keep itself alive, and we are resolved to prevent that from happening.

We are here to force the hands of the politicians who try to play the middle by avoiding words like “fascism” and “antifascism” and “antifa” (unless they’re being used as cheap props) to say firmly and to the faces of their constituents and the world whether they do or do not oppose fascism.

And yes, we know the name “Antifa” is a trap. It positions fascism as the default and us as the reactive force. But we’re not giving up the label. Not because we love it, but because it has power. It has weight. It has history. And we’re going to wield that history with precision.

We are not “anti” as in opposition. We are pro-human, pro-survival, pro-truth, pro-accountability. Fascism isn’t the baseline. It’s the aberration.

We’re not here to play defense anymore.

We’re here to reset the rules of the game entirely.

This is the real deal. We’re facing the most intense and powerful attempt to end not only the United States but democracy itself, as evil, manipulative, powermongers systematically replace the institutions of democracy with autocracy, totalitarianism, and fascism.

We are not backing down. Whether in five minutes or five years, we will triumph.

Not because we’re better at murdering innocent people, not because we’re better at prosecuting the helpless, not because we’re better at austerity and controlling people through deliberately maintained poverty and opportunity made inaccessible.

We’re not backing down because if we do, we’ll be extinct.

We’ll see you soon with the final piece in this cycle: actual anti-fascist action.