Summary of Mark Bray's Antifa

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 On April 23, 1925, a political meeting was held on rue Damrémont in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. The speaker was Pierre Taittinger, leader of the fascist organization Jeunesses Patriotes. The communists took the decision to hold the meeting on their turf, and four Jeunesses Patriotes died as a result.
#2 In France, during the Dreyfus affair, three proto-fascist groups arose to oppose the Dreyfusard movement and defend the military and the anti-Semitic mobs. They were the Ligue antisémitique de France, the Ligue des Patriotes, and the Ligue de l’Action Française.
#3 The first proto-fascists were members of the American South’s Ku Klux Klan, who used violence to intimidate and control black voters in the Republican party.
#4 The specter of popular upheaval from below forced many conservative elites to take popular politics and alien liberal notions of public opinion seriously for the first time. This led to the creation of a number of organizations in France, Germany, Austria, and elsewhere, primarily with petit bourgeois constituencies that were often steeped in anti-Semitism.

Sujets

• Fascism
• Totalitarianism
• Political Science
• Political Ideologies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669397434
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

On April 23, 1925, a political meeting was held on rue Damrémont in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. The speaker was Pierre Taittinger, leader of the fascist organization Jeunesses Patriotes. The communists took the decision to hold the meeting on their turf, and four Jeunesses Patriotes died as a result.

#2

In France, during the Dreyfus affair, three proto-fascist groups arose to oppose the Dreyfusard movement and defend the military and the anti-Semitic mobs. They were the Ligue antisémitique de France, the Ligue des Patriotes, and the Ligue de l’Action Française.

#3

The first proto-fascists were members of the American South’s Ku Klux Klan, who used violence to intimidate and control black voters in the Republican party.

#4

The specter of popular upheaval from below forced many conservative elites to take popular politics and alien liberal notions of public opinion seriously for the first time. This led to the creation of a number of organizations in France, Germany, Austria, and elsewhere, primarily with petit bourgeois constituencies that were often steeped in anti-Semitism.

#5

After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, European politics became extremely tense. The socialist parties had discussed plans for a massive continental general strike to stop militarism, but when the trumpets sounded, most parties fell in line behind their states.

#6

The post-World War I revolutionary movement was short-lived. The bitter and bloody conflicts between international socialism and communism would never be resolved, and they would stand in the way of anti-fascist unity for decades to come.

#7

Fascist squadristi terrorized local socialists and their families in Castenaso, Italy, in 1921. The threat of revolution and significantly disrupted production pushed economic elites to look beyond the impotence of the parliamentary government for solutions.

#8

The First World War was a conflict that most had imagined would be short and quick, but turned into a four-year quagmire of trench warfare. The war greatly enhanced technological capacity to produce carnage, which traumatized many people.

#9

The Arditi del Popolo were a group of fighters who were formed to support the leftist ideals of the PSI, but they were eventually unable to withstand the Fascist onslaught.

#10

The March on Rome, which was led by Mussolini, was a display of his psychological warfare tactics. He amassed a group of Fascists outside of Rome who threatened to forcefully take power, but the king refused to approve the decree. Mussolini was invited to form a coalition government, and he demanded sole control.

#11

Until the development of partisan bands in the 1940s, resistance to Mussolini’s regime was almost entirely orchestrated from abroad. All exiled antifascist activists could do was chip away at his power and organize abroad against the wave of fascism that threatened to engulf the continent.

#12

The Weimar Republic was born out of war and was baptized in the fires of the revolution of 1918–19, but it was not enough to keep right-wing nationalists from resenting having to pay what they considered to be excessive war reparations dictated by the Treaty of Versailles.

#13

Hitler reinvented right-wing politics through violence, and the German socialists declined the offer of a united front. The 1928 announcement of the third period further damaged relations between the two main factions.

#14

The bitterness of the social fascist label was highlighted when Berlin’s socialist chief of police banned open-air marches on May 1, 1929. The KPD had to defy the ban and protest. The clashes left 30 dead and nearly 200 wounded, and 1,200 were arrested.

#15

The German anarchist movement was also affected by the rise of Nazism. While the Schwarze Scharen were able to store explosives, they were eventually arrested based on a tip from an informant.

#16

The creation of the Iron Front was