At the one-day Washington summit held Thursday, Rubio opened the event with a speech that described radical leftism as a “poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice."
The summit, which was attended by 65 foreign delegations, was formally entitled the “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism.”
Rubio’s challenge to foreign governments was akin to a direct confrontation. That is because many left-wing governments, which are filled with freedom-crushing globalists, treat populism and conservative parties like the resurgence of the Nazi Party.
“The very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream or, worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy,” Rubio bluntly stated.
Aware of his audience, the secretary of state came with evidence, too. He cited the July 1 firebomb attack in Greece that targeted members of New Democracy, a conservative political party. That attack injured a parliamentary candidate, and killed her mother, when the homemade bomb exploded under their parked car.
"You are here," Rubio said, "because two weeks ago, a 72-year-old woman was burned on over 80% of her body in her own home, in Greece, and she died, executed by a fire bomb because her daughter dared to stand for office!"
Two other recent incidents cited by Rubio included an attack on Germany's power grid last winter. That terrorist act, which caused a five-day blackout during sub-zero temperatures, was perpetrated by a left-wing group called "Volcano Group" to fight fossil fuels.
The second incident he cited was the fatal beating of a French activist, Quentin Deranque, 23, by a left-wing mob. Deranque was described as "far right" activist by the news media.
Rubio’s summit speech comes after the State Department designated four left-wing foreign organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Fox News reported.
The four organizations targeted by the administration are Antifa Ost; the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI); Armed Proletarian Justice; and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense.
Those groups operate across Germany, Italy and Greece, where they have conducted violent attacks.
“A bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil. It is,” Rubio said. “But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary? Well, that's just merely a tragic excess of idealism.”
