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i lived in the bay area for well over a decade and never heard of antifa until the agitprop campaigns leading up to the 2016 election.

and believe me im more than well versed in american leftist radical groups. antifa was not even a footnote here until 2016.
They weren't really that common in America. You had your own stuff. In Europe the 80s Antifa rose after skinheads were recruited to the right. The 90s Antifa blended to animal rights, straight edge, hc punk, sharps and prolly something else i forgot. Mid 2000 to 2015ish most of them went dormant. Far as i know they've followed the rise of far right very closely, contrary to what Druff was saying.

Punk scene was the natural source for Antifa and far right foot soldiers. That's where clashes were most common and need to organize came from that.

antifa, as far as i can tell, are just very angry anarchist/socialist crustpunks.

which is like 80% of berkeley political dna.