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The [[New Jersey]] State Office of Homeland Security has designated Antifa a domestic terrorist group. <ref>[https://www.njhomelandsecurity.gov/analysis/anarchist-extremists-antifa?rq=antifa Anarchist Extremists: Antifa, Dept of Homeland Security, June 12th, 2017]</ref>
The [[New Jersey]] State Office of Homeland Security has designated Antifa a domestic terrorist group. <ref>[https://www.njhomelandsecurity.gov/analysis/anarchist-extremists-antifa?rq=antifa Anarchist Extremists: Antifa, Dept of Homeland Security, June 12th, 2017]</ref>
==History==
The organization can be traced to the “united front” of the Soviet Union’s Communist International ([[Comintern]]) during the Third World Congress in Moscow in June and July 1921. The idea of the [[united front]] strategy was to bring together left-wing organizations in order to incite communist revolution. The Soviets believed that following Russia’s revolution in 1917, communism would next spread to Germany, since Germany had the second-largest communist party, the KPD (Communist Party of Germany).
It was at the Fourth World Congress of the Comintern in 1922 that the plan took shape. Moscow formed the slogan “To the Masses” for its united front strategy and sought to join together the various communist and workers’ parties of Germany under a single ideological banner that it controlled.
Both the communist and fascist systems were based in collectivism and state-planned economies. Both also proposed systems wherein the individual was heavily controlled by a powerful state, and both were responsible for large-scale atrocities and genocide.
The 2016 annual report by Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), notes the same point: From the viewpoint of the “left-wing extremist,” the label of “fascism” as pushed by Antifa often does not refer to actual fascism, but is merely a label assigned to “capitalism.”
While leftist extremists claim to be fighting “fascism” while launching their attacks on other groups, the report states the term “fascism” has a double meaning under the extreme-left ideology, indicating the “fight against the capitalist system.” Antifascism is a strategy, not an ideology.
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