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no, they really aren't. that's not what fascism is. if it was, fascism would have existed long before Mussolini.

If you actually want to understand our position as antifascists, and the positions of the people anti-fascism opposes, here are two books that will get you started:

• this is the best primer on antifa that you will find. anyone interested in antifa actions should read this. the author has been involved in leftist activism for a long time and is currently a member of an anarcho-communist organization that's well-regarded. the book here is presented for free. This is so important a work it should honestly be linked in the sidebar.
  
  
• this book is also highly important for the beginner and follows fascism from its inception into the modern day, up to around Charlottesville when both fascism and antifa more or less became mainstream. Unfortunately, this is not free. There are other books cataloging fascism, however, that you can find if you don't want to spend money. This one is just current and synthesizes a lot of older academic analyses of fascism.
  
  Umberto Eco's Ur Fascism is also highly regarded as one of the better analyses of the core of fascism. It's pretty short and it's free.
  
  There are many more excellent works on the subject, and I urge you to keep reading. Claiming that "racist laws are fascism" is... just... not right. At all.

They're these. The kind where you have to work harder to walk in them. It's supposed to make walking more of a workout. What that has to do with shooters I'm really curious to find out.

Suggested reading

Buy Night and Fog.

No doubt Mister SWAT Clown will respond by being indignant-but that's how they are trained to act-brazen it out--Read:

https://www.amazon.com/Sting-Man-Inside-Abscam/dp/0143125273

"And she, my family, and our friends are not fascists but they often support fascist ideals without know it." - there, that's it. EVERY leftist goes through this at some point.

One of the first things you could do is educate them on the origins of fascism. I mean this in a non confrontational sense. The unlearning process can be a painful one though so many people will disengage. It's tricky, all you can do is supply the information. Through learning the origins of what fascism is, they may grasp how it never went away and how it still effects us, daily. You could start with the following quote:

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Giovanni Gentile

Few more useful links below:

How fascism works

The new faces of fascism

Antifa Handbook

Alt America

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8AcmzqFdPM&t=11s - on Nazism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFvG4RpwJI&t=1108s - again on Nazism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ClScOsE-4&t=78s - on fascism & socialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1O3DWDzyv8&t=7s - capitalism & fascism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rto6JPYQ8 - neoliberalism & fascism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Nb3wbpljo - fascism & the political compass

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From the book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray 
According to Bray, Antifa “can variously be described as a kind of ideology, an identity, a tendency or milieu, or an activity of self-defense.” It’s a leaderless, horizontal movement whose roots lie in various leftist causes—Communism, anarchism, Socialism, anti-racism. Antifa activists believe that Fascists forfeit their rights to speak and assemble when they deny those same rights to others through violence and intimidation. https://www.amazon.com/Antifa-Anti-Fascist-Handbook-Mark-Bray/dp/1612197035/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Antifa%3A+The+Anti-Fascist+Handbook&qid=1569685904&sr=8-1

How I see it. To me Antifa reminds me of the organizational semi structure of Anonymous 4chan group. That was in occupy wall street. Where anyone can become a member. As long as they follow the few rules they have. Online there would be meet ups and people show up. 

It is hard for us here in America to comprehend that there are many styles of organization not just Capitalist centralized structure. In fact, many styles have and do exist all throughout history. The benefits of this type of leaderless organization (Because there are different styles of leaderless organization) is that it can be deployed rapidly. Since there is no leader forces have no way of focusing on one member. Since they can claim it and leave it just as fast harder for forces to dismantle it. It can blend within the population. Harder for the ego to grow since everyone is the same. There is no rank and file. There are cons like every style. Antifa then is an organizing strategy, not an actual group of people. They can have members of other groups or individuals. 

Modern Antifa was inspired by the militant anti fascist network that lasted through 1932 to 1933 called Antifaschistische Aktion the abbreviation would be Antifa. Modern Antifa are inspired but are not the same because they were an actual group. 

In the 1970s the far right extreme groups started to rise again. Although always existing in one form or another they picked upped the pace during the 70s. In Britain the skinhead white power groups started infiltrating the punk rock scene. Following the fall of the Berlin wall Neo Nazis started to grow. Eventually the far right spread and woke up the American far right racist groups. The book The Turner Diaries became a call to arms to many American racist. They quickly found out that the new recruiting method would be online. And thus to counter them the Anti-Fascist groups began again. Learning from the past adopting the colors and tactics of the ones before them.