“Legalism, pacifism and antimilitarism have been constitutive factors of antifascist militant cultures” | EUROtoday

Lmurder of Quentin Deranque [militant d’extrême droite radicale, le 14 février] turned anti-fascism right into a political goal. The circumstances of the tragedy led to an virtually systematic assimilation between antifa and militant brutality. From the interwar interval, nonetheless, anti-fascism maintained extra advanced hyperlinks with violence, which nearly all of activists rejected, not like their adversaries.

Anti-fascism can’t be lowered to violence. Since its look in Italy within the Twenties and its deployment in Europe, then elsewhere, this political tradition has been reworked relentlessly. It shouldn’t be a couple of occasion or a dogma. Barrier motion, above all, it has continued to achieve in complexity in response to native, nationwide and transnational political recompositions, which had been the product of mobilizations and militant circulations.

Elected towards “poverty, war, fascism”the Popular Front authorities (1936-1938) constitutes an instance of this anti-fascism within the plural. This electoral coalition, which by no means synthesized all anti-fascisms, discovered itself torn between reasonable and extra radical currents; however none, not even the French Communist Party of the time, clearly and overtly defended the usage of power in politics.

This intrinsic variety of anti-fascism explains the ambivalent relationship to violence, and even to legality, since its delivery. By catalyzing completely different left-wing political cultures, French anti-fascism within the Thirties uncovered its personal divisions. Since the start of the twentieth century^e century, police repression and the brutality promoted by far-right organizations gave rise, on the left, to the precept of self-defense. Considered as a method of defending oneself towards road assaults, self-defense proceeded by mimicry but additionally by one-upmanship, generally aiming for insurrectional ends, a minimum of in the long run.

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