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The EFF and US President Donald Trump use aggression to gain publicity, a formula practised by militaristic movements throughout history
They dress in red and pretend to be maids, construction workers or miners. But it is by their ludicrous uniforms you shall know them. There is history here. Like almost everything else the EFF does, their costume gimmick is derivative. The Nazis sported brown shirts. In this, they were imitating Italian fascists, who favoured black shirts. Mussolini’s militia also wore grey-green pants plus a fez-like cap with a kitschy tassel. In Spain, fascists preferred blue, in Iceland grey and in Czechoslovakia white. In Romania, the fanatical Legion of the Archangel Michael wore green. In the US, after Hitler’s rise to power, the white-supremacist Silver Legion of America was founded in 1933 and wore … silver. The previous year Sir Oswald Mosley had founded the British Union of Fascists. His thugs wore black shirts, copying the design of Sir Oswald’s fencing jacket. Post-war, for political fashion there are the drab Chairman Mao suits in China. You get the picture. The EFF certainly does. And ...
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