Eric Striker – The Unz Review April 22, 2020
A leading organizer in a self-described “Antifa” cell, Iron Front USA, is a member of a prominent Maryland political family. The organization takes inspiration from the German Iron Front, a paramilitary group that embraced violence against conservatives, National Socialists, and even left-wing rivals.
Sean Thomas Kratovil-Lavelle, pictured above at an “Antifa” rally next to his sister Charlotte, posts on the Iron Front’s reddit under his own name, bragging about engaging in the groups masked antics. Kratovil-Levelle is wearing the three arrows symbol appropriated by anarchist paramilitary organizations, while his sister is wearing a “Refuse Fascism” t-shirt, a group run by the Revolutionary Communist Party.
According to witnesses, the mother of the two, an immigration attorney and open borders activist, was present with them at the rally.
Kratovil-Levelle and his group, which uses the Captain America logo altered with the Iron Front logo, largely operates in and around Maryland, but National Justice has received tips and images from concerned citizens about them menacing people attending Trump rallies in Boston as well.
Kratovil-Levelle is local Maryland aristocracy. The “antifa” member’s grandfather, Frank Kratovil Sr, was a Maryland County activist judge who openly supported the NAACP and Betty Friedan’s radical feminist group the “National Organization for Women.”
His uncle, Frank Kratovil Jr, served in the House of Representatives for Maryland’s 1st Congressional District from 2009 to 2011 as a Democrat. Despite being an incumbent and raising over a million dollars for his race, Kratovil lost to Republican Andy Harris in 2010. A year after leaving office, Governor Martin O’Malley appointed Kratovil to be a judge in the same district his father served in, demonstrating a stark but familiar lack of meritocracy in the America’s incestual plutocratic system.
Kratovil-Levelle’s hometown of Stevensville, Maryland is 90% white. 98% of the community is composed of US citizens, meaning they do not live with or compete for jobs with the immigrants they advocate for. With a median property value of $356,400, it seems like all of his activities terrorizing working class people he and his cohorts target for “doxing” and street confrontations is driven by sadism and the desire to impress other rich, politically connected people.
Nationalists and left-liberals don’t understand each other due to a class difference: for Kratovil-Levelles segregated in their little islands, issues like immigration and multiculturalism are pure abstractions. America is still white and wealthy for them.
According to French researcher Jacques Leclercq, most “anti-fascists” are recent university graduates, often from elite backgrounds, who live as “BoBos” (bourgeois bohemians). They engage in direct action in defense of the privileges they have inherited under neo-liberalism — powers and opportunities denied to the vast majority of disenfranchised white people they decry as “racist” and worthy of violent beatings.
If you’re wondering why nationalists are always being railroaded in court while anarchists and communists who utilize political violence to silence others never do, it’s because the “antifa’s” whole family are working as prosecutors, judges and DC politicians.
(Republished from National Justice by permission of author or representative)
I’ve seen parents drop off their masked teenage children from their Range Rovers near Trafalgar Square. Antifa is a posh boys club, working towards creating a Communitarian tyranny that they one day hope to manage (and thrive within).
“If you’re wondering why nationalists are always being railroaded in court while anarchists and communists who utilize political violence to silence others never do, it’s because the “antifa’s” whole family are working as prosecutors, judges and DC politicians.”
These hypocrites are always telling truthers they shouldn’t call for violence…
Yet they get away with unjustified violence all the time and right under the noses of police “men” who only serve and protect the corrupt system of injustice upheld by the prosecutors who should be prosecuted, the judges who should be judged and executed and the politicians who lie all the time even when they tell the truth.
All these shameless charlatans are blackmailed and bribed to lie, cheat and steal as much as they can get away with. When caught, they lie again. They get paid huge salaries to make ridiculously unfair judgments and the people are fine with that…
Justice delayed is justice denied.
As Miles Mathis might comment with a quotation, “Nothing new under the sun.” Best way to CON-troll the “opposition” is to lead it. The Families, numerous enough (“They’re everywhere! They’re everywhere!”), have plenty of bodies to spare, it would seem. “Antifa” seems so cartoonish at times. The bike-lock-wielding “professor” in Beserkeley’s riots (masked even before the scamdemic! how prescient!) did do some damage, no question. A herd is a herd and can hurt you if one gets in their way.
So what are we denying here. Our societies have always been like this. Certain regional families connected will get privileges all over town and that’s how corruption and subversion works within feudalism. Yeah a real bunch of uglies have taken the reign but no scarier than anything else that’s ready been. The core problem was always this type of local to now global corruption and subversion but people went all exceptional over the last 40yrs got entitled and aspired to the unsustainable disneyfried nature of it all.
Nationalists are always railroaded because they are idiots easily led by infiltration no different to the left. Both oddly sprout liberation which tells a story they are not autonomous. Christ the British just sent in the MEK in plain view to infiltrate American nationalists side by side with the zio-ukro mob. And they sucked it up.
I’d laugh but when this type of infiltration now happens destabilizing the hard way is not to far away and it gets serious all too quickly and the fool tool supposed nationalists are running right into it. Not a good look.
Quite how a rearguard pro-liberal paramilitary group from Weimar Germany could be reconstituted as an incorporated “cell” of its erstwhile historical enemy, Antifa, in Maryland or elsewhere, is lost to me.
The original Antifaschistische Aktion considered Social Democrats as final-stage capitalism’s most capable fascists. A “fascist” to a 1930’s Communist was just another name for a “capitalist.” Fascism was descriptive of any statist political force, typically emerging during pre-revolutionary crises, that espoused the continuance of capitalism, whether it be of a liberal or reform type or of a corporatist model.
During 1932, the Eiserne (Iron) Front and Antifa of the KPD (German Communist Party) commonly engaged with one and other in violent street brawls, bringing the art of “kicking the living shit out of someone” to bear upon the contemporary ideological debate.
To misappropriate the historical entity, the Iron Front and reinvent it for modern times as a supine adjunct of Antifa is an affront to historicism. The arrogance quotient required to so glibly alter the identity of a known historical actor in this way is of such a plenitude, that it could be said to be of near rabbinical standard. The author seems to have missed the incongruity though or, perhaps he was not too much concerned about it for the purposes of his article.
The Iron Front motif symbolically represented opposition to the three contemporary agencies most threatening to the liberal-democratic model, realized in the form of the imperilled Republic. One arrow for each of their enemies; the (Hohenzollern) monarchists; the National Socialists and the German Communist party. National Socialism was not as much a focus of the Iron Front’s attentions as the KPD (or, its paramilitary wing, Antifa,) which had proven its effectiveness as an instrument of constitutional subversion. The Iron Front was not “anti-fascist,” it was anti-authoritarian.
Antifa itself had no doubt whatsoever; the Iron Front were dangerous fascists.
The victory of the bolsheviks in Russia provided the template for communist
success elsewhere. A grandee family like the Kratovil-Lavelle can pragmatically rewrite history to accommodate its private interests till its heart’s content or, at least while it has the money and power to do so. If the aim is to have the catastrophe of the Russian Revolution revisited upon the US, it doesn’t say much for the intelligence of this prestigious family that it’s chosen the young Mensheviks as its power base.