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November 20, 2021 by achrilock

“Moreover, regardless of the composition of the U.S. police force, the fact that it developed out of Southern slave patrols and Northern opposition to the labor movement gives us insight into its role in the white-supremacist criminal ‘justice’ system.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/20/13671/

October 17, 2021 by achrilock

“The tragic irony of modern anti-fascism is that the more successful it is, the more its raison d'être is called into question. Its greatest successes lie in hypothetical limbo.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/17/12978/

August 26, 2021 by achrilock

“With or without guns, anti-fascists have been out on the streets confronting a series of MAGA marches that have provided public organizing platforms for the alt-right.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/08/26/12066/

March 28, 2021 by achrilock

“Thus, it’s no surprise that history shows that parliamentary government is not always a barrier to fascism. To the contrary, on several occasions it has been more of a red carpet.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/03/28/8461/

January 27, 2021 by achrilock

“Whiteness has never existed independent of its location at the top of the racial hierarchy. Thus, as Joel Olsen explained in The Abolition of White Democracy, “‘White’ or ‘Caucasian’ is not a neutral physical description of certain persons but a political project of securing and protecting privileges . . .””
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/27/7083/

January 9, 2021 by achrilock

“Regardless of how they articulate themselves, these anti-fascists value the free and open exchange of ideas—they simply draw the line at those who use that freedom to promote genocide or question people’s humanity.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/09/6497/

July 29, 2020 by achrilock

“The overwhelming majority of studies on postwar anti-fascism has focused on questions of historical memory and commemoration, thereby implicitly reinforcing the tendency to relegate struggles against fascism to the past.”

— Mark Bray,
‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/29/1981/

July 6, 2020 by achrilock

“Both Trump and the alt-right have managed to tap into a widespread white conservative anxiety about the rapid demise of ‘traditional’ white America—an anxiety about the fact that they are losing the demographic ‘battle’ and will no longer constitute a majority of the population in a generation, that they are losing the culture war as gay marriage has become legal, that the notion of white privilege is gaining currency, that the black struggle is ascendant, that ‘rape culture’ is being targeted, and transgender identity and rights are increasingly legitimized. Moreover, liberal elitism and neoliberalism have hardened reactionary sentiments among many working-class whites.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/07/06/1315/

June 9, 2020 by achrilock

“The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillars of strength in society grounded not only in white supremacy but also in ableism, heteronormativity, patriarchy, nationalism, transphobia, class rule, and many others. This long-term goal points to the tensions that exist in defining anti-fascism, because at a certain point destroying fascism is really about promoting a revolutionary socialist alternative (in my opinion one that is antiauthoritarian and nonhierarchical) to a world of crisis, poverty, famine, and war that breeds fascist reaction.”
— Mark Bray, ‘Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/09/563/

June 5, 2020 by achrilock

“By the turn of the twenty-first century, antifa had become a potent and portable formula for confronting fascism. Moving into the new millennium, however, anti-fascists in a number of countries would have to recalibrate their strategies as new far-right parties rose to prominence by distancing themselves from overtly fascist politics, and explicitly bonehead supporters.”
— Mark Bray, ‘Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/05/485/