The Dread Slender Gnome on Nostr: My understanding, which could be wrong, was that antifa came out of the militant ...

My understanding, which could be wrong, was that antifa came out of the militant leftist movements of post WWI Europe. The ones that were the left equivalent of brownshirts, essentially. If that’s accurate, then using violence and forceful suppression to further their political aims was baked into antifa from the beginning.