Dana El-Kurd

or autonomous Marxist ideology, which explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States government, law enforcement authorities, and the system of law, unquote.

So basically, they view Antifa as left-wing anti-authoritarians, right?

That's how we can kind of collapse the use of this term down into like a single sentence.

It's left-wing anti-authoritarianism.

Though the defendants never actually organized altogether under the Antifa name,

The prosecution argued that they were linked through a triple Venn diagram of the Socialist Rifle Association, the John Brown Gun Club, and the Emma Goldman Book Club.

And this all converged on quote-unquote direct militant action.

I'm assuming people are familiar with the SRA or the John Brown Gun Club in some way.

Yeah, yeah.

The Emma Goldman Book Club was a local zine distributor and publisher that also put on community events from a radical anti-capitalist, usually anarchist friendly perspective.

Emma Goldman obviously being an anarchist.

Yep.

And like the fact that obviously these three organizations aren't actually tied together in any sort of like like they're trying to frame it as like, you know, an Al Qaeda and an Al Qaeda affiliate type deal.

Right.

Which is not sure accurate to how these organizations work or to what's going on here.

But I'm not surprised they went with this line of argument.

I mean, the defendants had connections to these groups, right?

Sure, yeah.

And because these groups have an ideological underpinning that can be seen as being quite similar in some ways, they're viewing that as part of the connection that connects the individuals who were involved in these sorts of organizations or community events.

Yeah, and I'm not surprised that's how they tried to argue it.