A communist state, also known as a Marxist-Leninist state, is a one-party state that is administered and governed by a communist party guided by Marxism-Leninism. Communist states are typically administered through democratic centralism by a single centralized communist party apparatus. Today, the existing communist states in the world are in China, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. These communist states often do not claim to have achieved socialism or communism in their countries but to be building and working toward the establishment of socialism in their countries. Socialism is the big lie in this century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.
y that Americans maybe are not so familiar with the term fascism (The Atlantic, 2017).
According to Mark Bray, the author of The Antifa Handbook these activists gained popularity and tried to attract youth with alternative bands in the 90s so that others cannot recruit those people. The motto of Antifa activists was “we go where they go” in order to disrupt any event where the opposition were holding events.
Contemporary Antifa is using the same tactics of disruption, by protesting against free speech when there are members of the alt right who want to hold a speech, like at Berkeley with Milo Yiannopulous.
Ideology of Antifa
Antifa is anarchist yet also communist in its ideology, puritan and authoritarian. What unites both strands is opposition to capitalism, conservatism and traditional, individualist western values. Antifa has been considered to be a counter culture since it has started as a group and a movement since the 1920s and it has appeared yet and yet again in accordance with the political environment. Antifa arises whenever the conservative government is in power, and it is an ideology which struggles against a conservative and capitalist government. The roots of Antifa have often seemed to merge with communism and the Democratic Party of the respective country it emerged in, like the US Democratic Party in America, or the German Democratic Party in Germany; and it has had a great impact on the ideology of the existing political groups it allied itself with. From what is found in the articles, videos, the mind of an Antifa member is judgemental and disdainful and is prone to labelling all opponents in the most negative way, from the viewpoint that Antifa is on the right side of history. (Bray, 2017)Most members hold the belief that they are the new counter culture, and that Trump “is literally Hitler” and everyone who disagrees with them is a “Nazi” and a “fascist”. Due to historical analogies that they often use they believe that history is repeating itself, and that they have to use force, whatever resources they have to stop the right-conservative-republicans from rising to power (Stonestreet, 2017). Because they see the conservatives as the most evil, they feel like they can legitimize their use of violence, they believe that force is legitimate and good in itself. In the Anti-Fascist Handbook it is clear that Antifa has a goal of overthrowing right wing politics and capitalism, ensuring that a socialist/anarchist system can take its place. Anti-fascists are socialists, communists yet also anarchists, which are at least partly contradictory attributes, although the two approaches can overlap, and have quite often been combined in practice (The Anarchist Library, 2018). It is a proposal for people on the left to unite in order to overthrow fascism, or what the lef
