Antidote: The Magazine of CLASS ACTION
No. 3
Summer 2002
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What we like about this publication is the emphasis on what is happening on the street with fascist and counter-fascist violence. Antidote is also working with some of the more internationalist anarchists grouped around the J. Sakai line.
We have a few concerns when it comes to the question of fascism today: 1) Organizations calling themselves "anti-capitalist" are not if they are fascist. As Lenin instructed, the job of political leaders is to lay bare the class interests of all political activists. In this case, Liberals take people at "face-value," but scientists dig deeper: if fascism cannot accomplish anti-capitalism (as it did not in the 1930s and 1940s), then what is it really serving and who will succeed in manipulating the fascists on the streets? 2) We have to prepare people on the question of parasitism correctly and not allow anti-Jewish or anti-trade sentiments to go unchecked in the imperialist countries. 3) About the only time it is approximately correct to speak of a "Left" counterposed to a "Right" in the whole world is in reference to the fascism question alone. Nonetheless, we must understand that within that "Left," there will be those who never dig very deeply into questions but who know well enough that they want to see fascism stopped. Nonetheless, we cannot allow those sectors of the anti-fascist Left taking things at face-value in a Liberal way to paralyze the initiative of the whole anti-fascist front.