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Other than the Weather Underground, I'm having trouble thinking of left wing groups.
by dylan604 1y ago
Other than the Weather Underground, I'm having trouble thinking of left wing groups.
- proxyon 1y agoantifa
- hypeatei 1y agoMaybe I'm biased, but I don't think antifa has been relevant for the past... five years? My mind puts them in the pre-COVID bucket.
- jdiff 1y agoThey've remained a continuous feature of right wing scare media.
- dylan604 1y agoThat doesn't make it true though. Just like 300 million Americans died from overdosing on drugs according to POTUS. They just say things knowing people in their base will not verify anything they say. If someone does, they clearly are opposition just making a stink.
- jdiff 1y agoNo, it certainly doesn't. But lies are the only relevance "antifa" has, and if you ask the people caught up in it, they'll adamantly insist that antifa is an extensive organization with identifiable leaders and cohesive plans that are executed widely by a unified member body. None of that's true. But we should be aware of the lies being told, at least the ones told widely.
- cstoner 1y agoGenerally, when someone says something like "left wing groups" they mean something with a formal organization. "Antifa" is less of an organization than even some loose collective like "anonymous" Are there left-wing agitators? Sure, black bloc and other "direct action" protestors have been around since at least the world trade protests in the 90s. But to the best of my knowledge there isn't really a formal "antifa" organization to dismantle or anything.
- RickJWagner 1y agoIf you believe Antifa exists, then I guess it’s fair to say MAGA exists.
- crock_smacker 1y agoI think most organized and militarized western leftist groups were probably defunct by the end of the Cold war. I’d assume it’s mostly a product of who the enemy was during the Cold War. Though I understand the far right made a large shift in how decentralized they operate around the end of the 20th century too after the feds started picking a lot of various KKK and other organization members off.
- josefritzishere 1y agoThere is a wiki for that. You will find it supports your position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Left-wing_militant_groups_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Left-wing_militant_gr...
- bryanlarsen 1y agoIf significant armed left wing groups actually existed, we might actually get meaningful gun control legislation, like happened during the rise of Black Panther.
- mtharrison 1y agoStrawman Front
- tim333 1y agoIt's gone a bit out of fashion but FARC were big in their day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_...
- dylan604 1y agoThe US' DOJ would not be concerned about Colombian revolutionaries like this though
- duxup 1y agoThey're the only "recent" very active left wing group that I can think of that operated for a long period of time ... even then a pretty small group.