Albania has invented a new political phenomenon, anti-fascism without fascists.
Sali Berisha, Arlind Qorri, Adriatik Lapaj, Agron Shehaj and fundamentalist groups have been lumped into the same political bag, christened ANTIFA.
A coexistence that even proletarian internationalism would envy. Right-wing, left-wing, liberal, conservative, and revolutionary, who would hardly agree to drink coffee together, but who are united by their opposition to the same power, which they cannot take by vote.
A coalition without ideology, but with a lot of hatred. In fact, when ideology is absent, hatred becomes a political program.
Edi Rama, with the ANTIFA label, has also done them a publicity service. He has raised their level. From a violent local clash for power, he has registered them in the anti-fascist international. This reminds me of that joke where the son tells his father that "I'm gay like those outsiders"... I believe you know the father's answer...
But anyway, labeling this absurd coalition as anti-fascist is a kind of revolutionary Erasmus, without leaving Tirana!
With this logic, even a bottle of gasoline in the hand of the masked soldier of the coalition in question can gain an ideological dimension. Breaking windows in the name of internationalism sounds more noble than breaking them out of anger with the government. A perfect scheme to relativize violence.
Meanwhile, revolutionary justice operates on social media. The opponent's violence is filmed from every angle. As for the violence of one's own people, the camera of a stolen cell phone accidentally loses focus.
But here an elementary logical problem arises.
The anti-fascists, let's say we identified them. But where are the fascists?!
Are the sidewalks and buildings of Tirana's boulevard partly designed by the Italians during fascism?
If so, the revolution came eighty years late!
Or are storefronts fascist? Are cell phone sellers fascist? Or are citizens who want to cross the street without participating in the revolution?
Is Edi Rama a fascist? After all, if he calls his opponents anti-fascists, the latter should also return his "honor". Someone should also play the role of the fascist...
But fascism is not anyone you don't like. Nor is anti-fascism a democratic certificate earned by hating the government and every normal person who minds their own business.
Or are the state police that when they have to respond to the violence of anti-fascists, they become fascists?! If the police were really fascists, I don't know if they would have thought to protest and not dare to throw Molotov cocktails at these anti-fascists, but whatever.
Fascism has historical and political content. If it exists, it is identified with arguments and evidence, not with a megaphone.
The problem is that Albanian politics has long since lost its ideological compass. In fact, I don't know if it ever had one, but this is a long topic.
Here everyone declares themselves liberal, democrat, and centrist. The right talks like the left, the left acts like the right, while the revolutionaries want to take over the very state they promise to overthrow.
The differences are mainly in marketing. The ambition for power is common.
Meanwhile, collectivist reflexes remain alive. Private property is relativized, privacy is treated as public property, and individual freedom is easily sacrificed in the name of the collective.
Communism has fallen as a regime, but some of its instincts continue to be sold as modernity.
If neo-communists are emerging, let them come up with their own program. But in front of them there must be a right that truly defends property, the market, the individual, and the limitation of the state.
This would be an ideological confrontation. Not a competition of megaphones, insults and petrol bottles. Because violence does not become democratic by being called anti-fascist. And power does not become fascist just because someone wants to take it.
So I say the question that remains unanswered is:
Who are the fascists these anti-fascists are fighting?!
If there is no serious answer, then we simply have a power struggle, dressed in ideological costumes from the last century.
But we already know one thing. The anti-fascists are ready. We haven't identified the fascists yet.
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