The comparison of fascists and anti-fascists is entirely apt and completely in line with both the historical record and authoritarian intention. There are, of course, well-meaning dopes who don’t really know the game; but those with any sophistication know that the aim of violence is not simply to stop a fascist take-over, but to drive the polarization of a society already considered fascist.

After all, beating people in the streets is not going to change the outcome of elections; nor is there an actual armed struggle for power happening. Rather, the aim of small scale violence is to push the popular mind into pre-rational, us-against-them, non-thinking. It is a means to exploiting large scale historical ignorance, coupled with mass ideological possession, to drive an historical evolution deemed both inevitable and maddeningly tardy.

It is no mere fashion choice that antifa carry red and black flags. They’re not defending secular Western culture, but – like the fuckwits carrying Nazi flags – trying to undermine and overthrow it in pursuit of a utopian dream.

At some point in this story, a Lenin comes along to critique the infantilism of those Leftists who believe in individual liberty and tolerance. Such naivety, s/he will convincingly argue, is a confusion of ends for means. Sure, we all believe in the same Utopia, but it’s going to take totalitarian coercion to root out the bias bedded deep in the heart of man.

Cue the mobs, the shout downs, the beat downs, the reeducation… and at all times, the absolute incapacity for honest self-reflection. Why, it is despicable to even suggest such a thing. A lack of “moral equivalency” must be demanded at all times, lest the face in the mirror and the face of the enemy come to seem uncomfortably alike.