“Antifa is not a recipe for changing all of society,” Mark Bray, author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” tells Chris Hedges in a recent episode of “On Contact.”

“It’s a politics aimed at self-defense around a specific threat,” Bray says.

Watch their conversation in the video above and read the Truthdig columnist’s criticism of the violent, left-wing movement, titled “How ‘Antifa’ Mirrors the ‘Alt-Right’.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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