Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - EPISODE 360： THE TRUE HISTORY OF ANTIFA - PT. 1

00:00:00.000 ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard to a special edition of human events jack so big we are going

00:00:15.740 to do this show powered by turning point usa all about the history of antifa because it occurred to

00:00:22.860 me that i have written a book on the history of antifa and it is called antifa stories from inside

00:00:31.940 the black block but it's been a while since we've really had a conversation about them and it's also

00:00:38.840 been a while since i've really even discussed it because look a lot of stuff that goes on but we

00:00:44.060 needed to take time and i know that we had time sort of over this christmas break to be able to

00:00:50.760 drill down on some subjects that really deserve it and i think that the history of antifa is

00:00:55.480 something that a lot of people don't understand people think that it's some group that spontaneously

00:01:00.160 came up in 2020 or maybe even 2016 2017 folks who don't remember there are people even who don't

00:01:09.420 remember the fact that antifa attacked trump's inauguration i was there i was there with my

00:01:14.840 wife who was my fiance at the time tanya tay sarah my brother we were on the road where they stormed

00:01:24.160 the highway across 395 in dc all the while their people were down on the street smashing starbucks

00:01:31.640 smashing windows setting cars on fire all of this happened all of this was true they also went to

00:01:37.880 our inaugural party the ball called the deplorable that we held the night before there was myself mike

00:01:43.680 cernovich others called it the deplorable and i said well if most inaugural balls are the day of

00:01:49.380 inauguration we should do one the night before so we held it then and we had hundreds of antifa out

00:01:54.120 in the streets attacking people setting fires throwing things at our guests throwing things at my parents

00:02:00.420 d batteries got this on video but people don't want to actually talk about the true history of

00:02:08.460 communism the true history that we've lived through and so what i wanted to do in this book was also go back to

00:02:15.940 the fact that antifa didn't even start then they started years and years before and in fact the history of

00:02:24.540 anarcho-socialist terrorism throughout the world particularly western europe eastern europe and the united states

00:02:33.360 goes back to the 1800s we had anarcho-socialist uprisings in the united states the haymarket riots in chicago

00:02:39.960 where they killed police officers the wall street bombing the assassination of president mckinley that led to

00:02:47.480 teddy roosevelt becoming our youngest president he was killed by an anarcho-socialist in buffalo new york by the name of

00:02:53.880 leon chogash so this is a rich history but the history of communism is not taught to you it's not

00:03:02.420 taught in schools it's not taught through hollywood movies there's no movies about it there aren't any

00:03:08.140 mass market books about it but there is jack posovic and here's human events and we're going to tell you

00:03:15.280 the true history of antifa now the seeds of what would become the present version of antifa

00:03:24.400 worldwide were actually planted all the way back in 1930s germany yeah that's right the weimar republic

00:03:32.060 the group likes to present itself as the inheritor of a tradition of fighting fascism but is this true

00:03:37.460 well the first eponymous antifa group was antifascista action and it was founded by a

00:03:45.260 soviet agent and a committed stalinist who's named ernst talman in 1932 in weimar germany and if you

00:03:55.240 don't know the name ernst talman then perhaps you haven't been studying the true history of antifa

00:04:01.320 now like many of the critical figures in germany in the 1930s he was a product of world war one

00:04:06.400 defeated kaiser weakening the country's spiritual foundations the deterioration that was the weimar 1.00

00:04:12.860 republic of course this is the same deterioration and collapse that led to the rise of adolf hitler

00:04:18.300 and hitler's popular appeal in germany at the time in the weimar republic was principally based in the

00:04:24.960 widespread belief the german communists would use the economic chaos of the depression as a vehicle

00:04:30.140 for taking power and installing a regime like the bolshevik dictatorship that had been established in

00:04:35.940 the ussr whereas hitler at the time was seen by many germans as more rational and less terrifying

00:04:43.000 of it as an alternative to communism this fear was then magnified by a soviet agent who had become the 0.95

00:04:51.040 leader of the communist party of germany what was his name ernst talman later the founder of antifa

00:04:57.260 ernst talman working class born in 1886 in hamburg three years and four days older than hitler working

00:05:04.500 class upbringings father was a coachman uh tended a bar down at the docks in hamburg hamburg it's a

00:05:11.280 dock town it's a city it's a it's a water town a port town talman grew up rubbing shoulders with the

00:05:17.440 sort of rough types that you'd expect in both locales in pre-war germany at one point both of his

00:05:22.800 parents turned to petty crime and they were apprehended causing them to briefly break up

00:05:26.980 so talman gets is born from broken home poor economics decides to join the military gets

00:05:35.580 drafted fights in world war one he then fled his unit in 1917 joining a pro-communist organization

00:05:47.240 that later became the communist party of germany talman became one of these leaders because unlike

00:05:54.840 many others associated with the communist party certainly in the ussr and the bolsheviks talman

00:05:59.440 actually had a working class background and when you look at lenin when you look at a lot of these

00:06:03.640 people they don't have uh trotsky they don't have a true working class background themselves and that's

00:06:10.500 why that's why lenin comes up with this phrase the the the vanguard of the working class the vanguard

00:06:15.460 of the proletariat talman doesn't need to be part of the vanguard talman himself he's working class

00:06:20.120 soldier came up from nothing decided to go into the communist party it's really through that military

00:06:25.520 that gets himself up to the next level

00:06:27.840 so he becomes the leader of the central party the most important communist in all of hamburg

00:06:36.800 and the communist party is on the rise because as the communist party is rising

00:06:42.280 you've also got the national socialist workers party on the rise but both of them viewed

00:06:49.920 their greatest enemy not as one another they viewed as their enemy the regime they viewed as

00:06:55.860 their enemy the republic and the ruling party of the time the social democrats the social democrat

00:07:03.480 party so in many cases you actually saw the national socialist workers party and the communist party

00:07:11.720 working together that's right working together while targeting the regime they held strikes

00:07:19.760 together called demonstrations together oh certainly they were rivals as well and

00:07:25.700 certainly there were there was mass fighting but people need to understand that that the actual

00:07:29.300 history is far more complex than any antifa member would have you believe today they would say oh

00:07:36.600 we always opposed hitler and that's all it was and we tried to stop him and and and we eventually

00:07:41.500 didn't and and that's the end not true not true you actually did work together we've got the proof

00:07:48.260 we've got the documents got an entire book about it but i want to tell you we're gonna we're gonna

00:07:53.460 get into this in the next segment about a in a group that predated antifa and it was called the red

00:07:59.660 front the rot front aka the red front this was the original marxist street brigade of germany and it was

00:08:16.280 founded as well by ernst talman all the way back in the 1920s now interestingly enough the red front

00:08:23.520 rot front used military terms for arranging and training its recruits this is back in the 20s

00:08:29.540 so they had squads platoons camaraderies regiments even believe it or not they even had a navy

00:08:39.700 they had a paramilitary navy called the red navy this was how active this was and so people know

00:08:47.600 of course about the hitler youth that later was established by the nazis but did you know that

00:08:53.740 there was also a red youth roter jungström and i'm sorry i don't speak german very well

00:08:59.600 but they they held summer camps set up for communist youth in germany for the purposes of training and

00:09:06.040 indoctrination and also included courses on military drill ceremony and fitness now it was

00:09:12.400 a full-fledged political tool it wasn't the same clandestine operation that antifa exists as today

00:09:18.460 this is a huge difference huge difference but it kept with that military motif and they actually had

00:09:24.780 to take a vow every member of the red front swore the following oath i vow to never forget that world

00:09:32.080 imperialism is preparing the war against the soviet union so even they knew that the soviet union

00:09:40.260 was the the country and organization that they swore allegiance to keep in mind this is only a few

00:09:45.760 years not even a decade since the takeover of the communists in russia so communism is very new and it's

00:09:52.860 it feels like communism is on the upswing and these groups they're funded of course of course by uh by the

00:10:02.300 soviets talman himself was hand selected by the stalinists he flew to moscow served in the

00:10:10.240 honor guard at the funeral of vladimir lenin and then is sent back to be moscow's man in germany

00:10:17.940 leads the communist party sets up the red front fighting group sets up all of this directly on the

00:10:25.180 orders of trotsky why because talman is the man that they view is going to be their candidate not only

00:10:33.980 to run for president he does end up running in the election against hitler but he is the man that

00:10:40.600 they view will deliver germany to them and here's the other part because talman knew to follow orders

00:10:49.000 talman never questioned his orders and we'll get into what happened because of that

00:10:55.300 but you can go and look at all of this in 1931 talman and hitler joining forces in an unsuccessful

00:11:02.940 attempt to dissolve the parliament of prussia moscow ordered talman to oppose the social democrats

00:11:08.980 even in the face of hitler's rise talman comes in third in 1932 running against hitler and running

00:11:16.820 and then it's hindenburg who ends up winning however just before 1933 when hitler is able to solidify his

00:11:27.800 rule and becoming chancellor that's when antifa is finally formed so the red front gets banned

00:11:34.680 at this point because the social democrats realize that the communists are insane and it's very easy

00:11:41.400 to paint them as foreign agents because obviously they are so they get banned so talman realizes he has

00:11:48.220 to come up with something new a new type of group that has yet to be banned in july of 1932 talman

00:11:54.880 inaugurated anti-fascista action antifa and he knew from the start that the word anti-fascist

00:12:04.180 was simply a word to get around the fact that he couldn't be called communist because the communist

00:12:10.420 fighting groups had been banned the communist brigades had already been banned at this point

00:12:13.640 and what did he really want he wanted a way so that his fighting groups could go up against the brown

00:12:21.560 shirts could go up against the iron front uh the fry corps so many of the other because this this

00:12:27.420 in weimar germany weimar republic every major political group had a military wing so the original

00:12:34.460 antifa the militant group wing of it was cut was it was the military wing of the communist party of

00:12:41.660 germany in the weimar republic and so his attempt to bring people into this was not directly targeted and

00:12:49.400 this is what people need to understand because antifa's propaganda misleads about the true origins

00:12:54.320 in november of 1931 the communist party newspaper printed an open address to the nazi party calling them

00:13:01.800 the united front of the proletariat who carried out their revolutionary duty just before antifa was founded

00:13:11.040 the communist party held a large meeting in may of 1932 with the nazi party that included a nazi speaker

00:13:18.300 and hundreds of nazi participants then in november of 1932 nazis and communists took part this is after

00:13:26.240 the founding of antifa took part in a transportation strike at the street level they both viewed themselves

00:13:33.140 as enemies of the system in fact there's a term uh that that arose because of this and that's called

00:13:39.080 beefsteak nazi and what was a beefsteak nazi the idea was that you're brown on the outside red on the inside

00:13:45.020 get it beefsteak so former members of the communists who later became members of the brown shirts so at

00:13:54.280 at the street level you had people that were switching sides all the time because they both

00:13:59.160 viewed themselves as the vanguard of the proletariat and these are marxist ideals and socialist ideals

00:14:04.960 however and and at some level it's just street toughs that are looking for an excuse to fight

00:14:09.880 looking for an excuse to get rowdy but that's why you see this tie over now of course there's the

00:14:17.400 double flag symbol of antifa originally it was two red flags now you have a black flag and a red flag

00:14:25.280 originally the two red flags were simple because this was communism now you see the black flag and

00:14:31.780 the red flag together that's the addition of anarchism to communism and that's what antifa stands for

00:14:38.600 today but remember it was moscow and stalin who specifically ordered ernst talman and the original

00:14:47.660 antifa not to focus on hitler not to focus on the rise of the nazi party but to work with him

00:14:54.720 to undermine the weimar republic it was those orders that he was directly called upon to follow

00:15:04.140 but then of course we know what happened we know that hitler does come to power because they do

00:15:14.480 destabilize the country because antifa's purpose was the destabilization of the traditional system

00:15:20.980 or at least the established system in this case but who comes to power not them they used to have a

00:15:28.740 phrase for this they would say first hitler then us well guess what the us never happened because when

00:15:34.820 hitler comes to power who do you think are the very first people that he arrests it's the communists

00:15:43.540 it's the people who thought that they were working with their friends and talman he gets dimed out

00:15:52.300 by his own communist buddies we'll explain what happened to him in the next segment

00:15:57.700 so ernst talman march 3rd 1933 gets arrested gets imprisoned was informed on by his own neighbor

00:16:12.100 his own buddy one of his other communist friends so he does get arrested

00:16:19.560 and then for 11 years ernst talman is held in prison

00:16:25.320 he eventually gets sent to the concentration camp at buchenwald

00:16:30.800 now talman's wife interestingly enough rosa

00:16:35.960 so so his wife spends those 11 years trying to get him out and if folks remember that towards the

00:16:44.720 end of the 1930s and certainly 1939 just prior to the invasion of poland in the carve-up of poland

00:16:49.600 by russia the soviet union and germany there was an agreement signed between the soviet union

00:16:57.640 nazi germany that was called the molotov-ribbentrop non-aggression pact and believe it or not

00:17:05.760 one of the slogans during that time was long live comrade talman the ussr was promoting this

00:17:12.460 and talman was seen as sort of a revolutionary prisoner in fact even in the spanish civil war

00:17:19.580 the international brigade of the night of the spanish civil war the brigade that all the foreigners

00:17:25.780 came into support the communists to support the anarchists when communists and anarchists and

00:17:32.340 writers and journalists all arrived in spain to fight for the communists and their failed communist

00:17:37.860 takeover of spain do you know what the name of the brigade was because that was fought while he was

00:17:42.760 imprisoned the name of the international communist brigade in spain was the ernst talman brigade founder

00:17:52.720 of antifa so you need to understand how how big how powerful he was at this time

00:17:59.060 this guy goes on to be a cause celeb but here's the problem even during and i just i just want to show

00:18:10.740 the honor of the communists right a little bit of sarcasm there they never get him released they never

00:18:19.460 even go to the nazis even door even under molotov-ribbentrop they don't ask for him to come back

00:18:27.140 and why is this because here's what happens when rosa talman is giving these letters and these these

00:18:38.540 pledges and imploring the other communists to help get her husband out of jail

00:18:44.460 who's she giving them to

00:18:48.260 walter ulbricht now walter ulbricht had been

00:18:55.380 sort of a number two sort of a lieutenant

00:18:59.380 to talman prior to his arrest if you know the history walter ulbricht goes on to be the communist

00:19:10.080 dictator of east germany throughout the cold war

00:19:13.860 and ulbricht knows that if this massive communist hero gets released then he'll retake his position

00:19:22.660 at the head of the communist party so what does ulbricht do he ignores the requests completely

00:19:31.940 ignores all of them and so talman stays in jail he stays in jail the entire time

00:19:41.820 this was his reward for following the orders of stalin for following the orders of moscow for 0.67

00:19:49.480 following the orders of leon trotsky the founder of antifa where he actually kind of gets forgotten

00:19:57.500 by hitler in the midst of world war ii and everything else that's happening but at one point

00:20:02.880 and throughout these these 11 years he's always held in solitary confinement the entire time

00:20:07.960 never once does talman renounce communism

00:20:12.000 he gets one visit with his wife later

00:20:15.020 and there's a there's a story there's a rumor that she got pregnant but she would have been her 50s so

00:20:20.240 it is what it is like everything else in that in that era

00:20:23.920 but

00:20:25.620 on the 18th of august

00:20:27.880 hitler remembers him 0.94

00:20:29.700 and he has him shot and killed 0.96

00:20:31.760 in buchenwald 0.99

00:20:33.100 and so that's his reward

00:20:35.560 communists could have got him out

00:20:37.980 they could have implored him they could have said hey this is a big guy

00:20:41.820 this is our our leader

00:20:43.780 if you want us to make this deal with you we need him out

00:20:46.740 they didn't care

00:20:47.820 they didn't care at all

00:20:49.540 because they saw him

00:20:51.240 as a means to power

00:20:52.720 and as a means to an end

00:20:54.400 and the same thing by the way happened to all

00:20:57.760 the original members

00:20:59.320 of antifa under ernst talman

00:21:01.380 they were locked up

00:21:02.120 they were sent to prisons

00:21:02.940 not always buchenwald

00:21:04.100 but just

00:21:04.540 other prisons

00:21:06.080 that hitler had established for the enemies

00:21:09.360 because this is what always happens

00:21:11.840 to the useful 1.00

00:21:13.160 idiots 1.00

00:21:14.140 this is what always happens 1.00

00:21:16.140 to the people once they've served

00:21:17.900 their purpose

00:21:18.900 instead of

00:21:21.040 working

00:21:22.300 actually for the people

00:21:24.020 when you're committed to violence

00:21:26.200 when you're committed

00:21:27.260 to

00:21:28.140 this type of militancy

00:21:30.040 this type of destruction

00:21:31.740 that's what you get

00:21:34.580 that is what you get

00:21:36.680 for following all those orders

00:21:39.100 you get two in the back of the skull

00:21:41.660 at the express order

00:21:45.020 of adolf hitler

00:21:46.280 and so

00:21:48.260 antifa

00:21:49.040 which we now see today

00:21:51.620 draws on

00:21:53.640 what they believe

00:21:54.980 through their

00:21:55.800 twisted telling of the narrative

00:21:57.880 that antifa

00:22:00.600 stood up to hitler

00:22:02.260 and it's true that

00:22:02.920 that antifa did

00:22:04.280 in a sense

00:22:06.000 rival the nazis

00:22:07.580 but in reality

00:22:09.060 antifa had been used

00:22:10.920 by the nazis

00:22:11.780 as a destabilizing force

00:22:13.920 and then as a rival

00:22:15.540 which they quickly

00:22:17.180 turned on

00:22:18.240 in the 1930s

00:22:19.540 in order to get rid of them

00:22:21.680 and then establish total power

00:22:23.520 we see the exact same dynamic today

00:22:26.500 as antifa

00:22:27.600 is used

00:22:28.180 as a destabilizing

00:22:29.560 force

00:22:30.360 against

00:22:31.480 our own

00:22:32.480 current

00:22:33.300 system

00:22:34.000 against our system of governance

00:22:35.780 against our police

00:22:36.780 against our

00:22:38.160 businesses

00:22:39.360 as against our religions

00:22:41.700 as against our society

00:22:43.560 because

00:22:44.860 they're used

00:22:46.740 as a revolutionary force

00:22:48.480 but they're never the ones

00:22:50.020 that actually attain power themselves

00:22:51.680 why?

00:22:52.200 because they're the first ones

00:22:53.780 that you have to get rid of

00:22:54.760 you can't have revolutionaries

00:22:56.480 in the same way

00:22:57.100 the chairman Mao

00:22:58.280 ends up

00:22:58.920 riling up the red guards 0.77

00:23:00.600 and then calling in

00:23:01.680 the people's liberation army

00:23:02.800 to round them up as well

00:23:04.140 because you can't rile

00:23:05.720 these people up

00:23:06.660 and then actually put them

00:23:08.380 in positions of power

00:23:09.280 no

00:23:09.600 you dispose of them

00:23:11.420 you get rid of them

00:23:12.840 so

00:23:14.200 while you might think

00:23:15.420 that you're throwing on

00:23:16.840 the black mask

00:23:17.580 you're throwing on

00:23:18.120 the black hood

00:23:18.820 and you're saving the world

00:23:20.780 from

00:23:21.260 the imperialists

00:23:23.340 and the fascists

00:23:24.340 in reality

00:23:25.960 all you're doing

00:23:27.360 is getting played

00:23:28.160 all you're doing

00:23:29.440 is getting used

00:23:30.320 the exact same way

00:23:32.180 that Ernst Talman

00:23:33.820 was played

00:23:35.840 and used

00:23:37.180 his entire

00:23:38.280 adult life

00:23:39.440 by Trotsky

00:23:43.320 by Stalin

00:23:44.700 and then finally shot

00:23:46.580 and Buchenwald

00:23:47.540 and so

00:23:49.400 leave you with that

00:23:51.540 because part two

00:23:52.760 we're going to explain

00:23:53.880 what happened to the communists

00:23:55.020 in East Germany

00:23:56.220 ladies and gentlemen

00:23:57.800 you have my permission

00:23:58.520 to lay ashore

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - January 05, 2023

EPISODE 360： THE TRUE HISTORY OF ANTIFA - PT. 1

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