Hi, Swedish citizen here. I thought you might be interested in my personal views on this whole antifa vs everyone they disagree with scenario. My political views are controversial according to the remaining population of this country and I have gotten some pretty harsh treatment due to this. Hell, my friend once heard a classmate talking about how he wanted to strangle me with a fishing line because of my standpoints on immigration that I consider to be quite realistic seeing as I judge by statistics before morals (which was most likely the reason why). So in short, I have been a bit of a social outcast for the last few years because of my views on several controversial subjects. I have very rarely been met with debate but rather pure ignorance and laughs (sometimes even violence but in a more threatening manner rather than an intent to harm me physically). Because of these childish and obviously insecure actions from my opposing side in debate accompanied with the actual statistics that I judge from, I am going to keep to my opinions and consider myself correct for now.

So, my views on political violence? It's wrong and you're intellectually at a disadvantage if you think it changes anything. It completely kills any reliability on your side because you are doing nothing but showing that you are too childish to debate with and convert people to your side. Instead you just prove to them that you are out of arguments and decide to try to scare the opposing side into being too afraid to speak up. Censorship in the worst form possible. However, people are smarter than that. They see right through your dumb actions and just end up seeing themselves as the correct side. And if you use violence in this manner, those people are correct.

Antifa have one main argument they turn back to as if it were a motto, and it always begins with "not all" (I see they use it to justify their own actions now too).
The problem is not you specifically, so stop defending yourself. The problem is the people actually committing these crimes. And with antifa, that number is in an obvious majority. Never in my life have I seen a peaceful antifa protest. They even provoked the police in Sweden into shooting a man who threw rocks at them during a protest in Gothenburg which hasn't happened in Sweden before then since 1931. This was in 2001 and they have only increased in numbers. I don't see them becoming any more peaceful either.

It's strange but not once have I heard about a member of the nazi oriented organisations in Sweden using violence. Actually, I probably have and I just can't think of any at the moment but my point stands that it is obviously way more frequent within the radical left. This "hit them before they hit you" mentality doesn't work on any side in my opinion. However I am sadly forced into always thinking the worst with antifa. Not as in it's ok to punch antifa, but that I have to be extra careful with my actions around them. I'm not planning to get hit in the head with a bike lock anytime soon.