America’s pro-Nazi president defends Charlottesville rampage

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Trump’s press conference tirade on Tuesday was part of a calculated attempt to develop a fascistic mass movement in the United States.

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[GLF]

A convenient liberal distraction and one big bourgeois reaction, but an actual fascist Trump is not.

He is a nuttier than squirrel shit racist, though.

[Antiochus]

Chomsky defended the protestors. I mean the Nazis, not the antifascists. He claimed they were well within their rights to march there.

[GLF]

Chomsky defended the protestors. I mean the Nazis, not the antifascists. He claimed they were well within their rights to march there.

The state shouldn't be granted the power to restrict so much as a single mouse fart.

So yes, they were within their rights. 100%. And Antifa, too, were well within their rights...to kick their Nazi asses.

[ckaihatsu]

This is a good example of the *limits* of bourgeois 'rights'.

If we're stuck in a nationalistic framework then all politics, including revolutionary politics, has to pass through the bourgeois filter of 'who-has-rights-and-who-doesn't', when such is *meaningless* in confronting the far-right. (If they didn't get protection from the state they'd be popularly *overwhelmed* in no-time flat.)

[willowtooth]

Chomsky defended the protestors. I mean the Nazis, not the antifascists. He claimed they were well within their rights to march there.

Chomsky simply reiterated his stance that he's always had.

"As for Antifa, it's a minuscule fringe of the Left, just as its predecessors were,"

"It's a major gift to the Right, including the militant Right, who are exuberant."

"what they do is often wrong in principle – like blocking talks – and [the movement] is generally self-destructive."

"When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it's the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that is,"

"That's quite apart from the opportunity costs – the loss of the opportunity for education, organizing, and serious and constructive activism."

"There's some limited similarity to the Weather Underground," Chomsky said about the group that grew out of the anti-Vietnam War movement. He added, however, that "Weathermen differed not only in radically different context, but also in tactics, almost always against property, in intent at least."

By contrast, "Antifa purports to be defensive," he said. Anti-fascism during the rise of Nazism in Germany is perhaps a better analogy for today's Antifa, said Chomsky, who expressed alarm at Trump's remarks. He clarified that in Germany, "left violence was hardly the problem."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/no...rticle/2631786

[GLF]

Most of you will vehemently disagree with me on this but I feel sorry for those deluded boys. Not as much as for Heather or her mom, but yes, in any just society they would be rounded up en masse and sent to the mental hospital.

They deserve to have their little asses whooped, but I am anti-retribution in all aspects of society. Violence is only okay on the street to defend those being attacked. After that it's NOT okay, particularly when one group can't defend themselves.

My hope is that when the stuff dies down...and will eventually...those young men learn a valuable lesson.