It literally did. Amazing work finding out it didn't remain exactly the same and adapted to local conditions. Because I said that so you win.
It didn't remain exactly the same because the anti-fascist paramilitaries of the 1920's and 1930's in Germany were exterminated completely by the Nazis and most of their ideologies were a lot different than the modern Anarcho-Communist Antifa gangs and were usually closer to social democrats or old-school Marxist-Leninist commies.
There doesn't need to be a direct tie. They could just resurrect the main ideas at any time. Antifa was always the paramilitary wing of communism in the West though, and communism never went away. It's hard to imagine that there would not be a continuous link, through international communism. I almost laughed out loud when he said punk rock was the origin of modern Antifa.
But wouldn't that just make them LARP'ers and guilty of "cultural grave robbing" no different from modern-day people trying to bring back the ideas of pagan polytheism?
Communism never went away, but Antifa did and only came back in the 1960's in Europe and the 1980's in North America.
Laugh all you want and keep coping, but punk rock was the origin of the modern Antifa within the United States, and I made that very clear in my last post. The modern Antifa movement in Europe largely predated punk rock, but it was not a direct continuation of the Weimar-era movement.
In Europe, it was revived by the KGB infiltrating the labor movements in West Germany, France, and Scandinavia in the 1960's and 1970's.
Labor unions were not as strong in the United States and the Antifa movement there emerged independently within the extremely anarchist and usually left-leaning punk scene and they were basically punks and skinheads LARP'ing as the European Antifa movement.
The SHARP's (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) were a key forerunner of the Antifa movement in the United States specifically, and more or less merged with it as time went on.
The KGB's efforts in the United States were focused more on academia and media, and that also helped play a role in the further development of the American wing of Antifa.
Now, since I don't want to go off on anymore off-topic tangents, can we focus more on the topic at hand?
Portland is likely going to keep being a focal point of violence and rioting longer than anywhere else, including Seattle, NYC, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay area.
Rose City Antifa and their affiliates run Portland like the Mafia ran Las Vegas in the 60's and 70's and it was an Antifa cesspit even before 2016.
Also, Portland doesn't have as much strategic value for the neoliberal corporate elites that back the Woke Left as the other deep blue lefty strongholds do.
NYC has Wall Street and is a shipping port. BLM and Antifa have done enough damage to set back NYC to the days of the "Big Rotten Apple" in the 1970's and 1980's already thanks to Bill DiBlasio and if the economic value of NYC keeps decreasing and Trump gets reelected so he can tell NYC to drop dead, Albany might find its balls again and urge Manhattan to get its shit straight like they did in the early 90's.
The Bay has Silicon Valley, 'nuff said.
Chicago is a hub of Democratic corruption and is one of the key strongholds the DNC has in the Midwestern Rust Belt, which is increasingly turning red nearly everywhere else, to the point that Michigan and Pennsylvania went blue in 2016 and are in play for 2020 while the perennial blue state of Minnesota might also be in play in 2020. Chicago's literally the only reason why the State of Illinois hasn't turned red.
Seattle has Microsoft and Amazon, and while they both relocated to Seattle area suburbs for the main HQ, Seattle going to shit for too long will have a major knockdown effect on the suburbs and possibly force Microsoft and Amazon to pull out of that area completely. The DNC does not want that since those two mega-corporations are key backers of the party and Seattle collapsing could run the risk of making Washington go purple like Michigan and Wisconsin increasingly have.
Portland brings nothing to the table aside from sheer votes in the big picture sense of the word, and I can see the Democrats more likely to focus on cleaning up the Antifa and BLM elements in NYC, Seattle, Chicago, and California first and foremost if they ever do an internal purge of those radical leftist elements (and it's likely going to happen by the end of the 2020's, a Trump win will likely make it happen much earlier for a variety of reasons)
If Biden wins 2020, Portland will be hit with ultra-violent rioting that lasts longer than anywhere else and the same will happen if Trump wins. They're going to be the last ones actively fighting this war once all this is said and done, no matter which side wins.
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