Antifa — short for “anti-fascist” — is a decentralised, leaderless movement of far-left individuals who stand against what they see as fascist and rightwing entities. It is “a label for people who have a certain ideology [who] believe violence is justified to fight against fascistic entities within our society”, including the government or specific organisations, said David Schanzer, director of Duke University’s Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. Antifa does not have a membership list or a doctrine, and it does not raise money, hold meetings or have a website, as an established organisation would. The “consensus” among US terrorism experts was that it was “an ideology” that “has not manifested itself organisationally”, Schanzer said Is antifa a terror threat? Data shows leftwing extremists have posed a relatively minor security threat to the US over the past three decades, particularly when compared with violence from rightwing groups, although ...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51