I don't believe ANTIFA constitutes even a tiny fraction of the "left" and in fact are much more pure anarchist than anything actually of the left. They pretty much hate everyone and everything that seems vaguely organized in any aspect.
They don't see themselves that way. http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/us/unmasking-antifa-anti-fascists-hard-left/index.html
Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement
Surprisingly enough, it is from CNN.
Many of those arrested identified themselves as part of the Antifa movement. Its name derives from "anti-fascist," and it has come to represent what experts who track these organizations call the "hard left" -- an ideology that runs afield of the Democratic Party platform and supports oppressed populations as it protests the amassing of wealth by corporations and elites...And their methods are often violent. Antifa leaders admit they're willing to physically attack anyone who employs violence against them or who condones racism -- as long as force is used in the name of eradicating hatred.
Kinda like that famous quote from the Major in NAM "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
Earlier this year, Antifa activists were among those who smashed windows and set fires during protests at the University of California, Berkeley...Indeed, over the past year, Antifa members have been involved in clashes across the country and the world, including in Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Alabama and Nebraska, and at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany....
"Each of us breaks the law every day. It's just that we make the conscious choice to do that," he said.
Antifa members also sometimes launch attacks against people who aren't physically attacking them. The movement, Crow said, sees alt-right hate speech as violent, and for that, its activists have opted to meet violence with violence. Right or wrong, "that's for history to decide," he said.
Sounds like the alt-right justifications as well.
But then police caught whispers that Antifa members were planning to push past police into the alt-right rally square.
Officers moved in with rubber bullets, pepper spray and smoke bombs. They pushed the masked Antifa activists into a corner and detained them. Many shed their black clothing and left it on the streets as police decided whom to arrest.
"We did seize a large number of weapons or things that could be used as weapons," Simpson said. "Everything from knives to brass knuckles to poles and sticks and bricks and bottles and road flares and chains. One hundred percent, they came geared up to fight if it would be allowed."
But...but...they're just here to PROTECT, right?
'Cept that isn't what they say or do at all, is it?
