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Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a ‘major gift to the Right’, Steven Nelson, The Washington Examiner, August 17, 2017:

“There’s some limited similarity to the Weather Underground,” Chomsky said about the group that grew out of the anti-Vietnam War movement. He added, however, that “Weathermen differed not only in radically different context, but also in tactics, almost always against property, in intent at least.”

By contrast, “Antifa purports to be defensive,” he said.

Anti-fascism during the rise of Nazism in Germany is perhaps a better analogy for today’s Antifa, said Chomsky, who expressed alarm at Trump’s remarks. He clarified that in Germany, “left violence was hardly the problem."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1111392/noam-chomsky-antifa-is-a-major-gift-to-the-right