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have you never seen the Antifa flag and what it's modeled after?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion

AFA is a specific organization which historically co-opted the original generic anti-fascist movement.

While there might be a 'core' AFA organization, the whole point is that they mostly rely on the more generic anti-fascist 'movement' in practice.

Even now, I'd say the majority of the 'members' of this movement, as in the people that show up, are all sorts of people, generally left-wing but including what in the US would be called 'liberals'. Most of these are not explicitly members of AFA.

So I'd say 'co-opted' sort of doesn't fully cover the situation. But I'd also say you're not entirely wrong either.

No, there's no "core" or "whole point" about it. This betrays an ignorance as to what actually happened. [1][2]. AFA is a communist (KDP) co-option of a generic anti-fascism. This is basic history at this point, please see the referenced links. AFA co-opting anti-fascisism covers "the situation" (i.e. history) perfectly well, being that that is what happened.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism

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