Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook

</image> <label>Author</label> <label>Illustrator</label> <label>Published on</label> <label>Publisher</label> <group layout="horizontal"> <header>Publication order</header> <label>Previous</label> <label>Next</label> </group> </infobox>Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook is a 2017 book by Mark Bray that discusses the history and philosophy behind the anti-fascist movement.

Summary

Four: Five Historical Lessons for Anti-Fascists

This chapter draws on five key lessons that the anti-fascist movement must learn in order to become more effective. They are:

1. Fascist revolutions have never succeeded. Fascists gained power legally
2. To varying degrees, many interwar anti-fascist leaders and theorists assumed that fascism was simply a variant of traditional counterrevolution politics. They did not take it seriously enough until it was too late.
3. For ideological and organizational reasons, socialist and communist leadership was often slower to assess the threat of fascism, and slower to advocate militant anti-fascist responses, than their parties rank-and-file membership.
4. Fascism steals from left ideology, strategy, imagery and culture.
5. It doesn't take many fascists to make fascism.

External Links

• Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook at libcom