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From Imperium to Internet: The National Alliance and the American Extreme Right
Abstract
Led by William Pierce, a former officer in the National Socialist White People's Party, America's National Alliance has achieved particular notoriety as a result of Pierce's authoring of a genocidal political thriller called The Turner Diaries. Pierce argues, both in his fiction and elsewhere, for the recruitment of an elite that will one day lead to an armed struggle against The System. The argument of others on the extreme right in the United States, however, that only individuals or at most small cells can successfully overthrow the state represents a grave challenge to the Alliance's groupuscular logic.
... Perhaps the most prominent example was the National Alliance in the United States, founded by William Luther Pierce in 1974. 23 As armed revolution has become an increasingly difficult idea to promote publicly, these types of organization have engaged in a challenging balancing act. On the one hand, they continue to push their revolutionary ideas and prepare for a final and potentially violent "take-over" of the government, once the time is ripe and the people are ready. ...
This article begins by outlining four post-WWII strategies of right-wing revolutionary resistance: vanguardism; the cell system; leaderless resistance; and metapolitics. Next, the article argues that metapolitics became a preferred strategy for many right-wing revolutionaries during the 2000s and early 2010s, and proposes three conditions that may help explain this metapolitical turn: limited opportunities for armed resistance; a subcultural style shift; and new opportunities for promoting alternative worldviews online. Finally, the article theorizes about the types of threats that may emerge in the wake of this metapolitical turn, and speculates about the likelihood of a new and more violent turn in the near future.
... 60 In 1999, Southgate published a manifesto for the organization, 61 centered around the idea of defending the white race against a Zionist plot that supposedly sought to bastardize the white race in order to assure global control (along the lines of a classic theme, but notable for its diffusion of the American acronym ZOG-Zionist Occupation Government--in Europe at the end of the decade, under the influence of the U.S. magazine Resistance. 62 ) Alternativa Europea expresses interest in anti-Semitism but has never exhibited much of it. The group did not publicize this text, and the second ELF slowly collapsed. ...
... In practical terms, however, the National Alliance is a revolutionary right-wing political organization with few members paying attention to the religious basis in a meaningful way. According to Durham (2004), Pierce hoped that followers of the National Alliance would embrace Cosmotheism, but it was not a requirement, although rejection of Judaism and Christianity was a necessity. ...
White Supremacist groups in the United States share certain common elements and characteristics. In addition to a view of racial hierarchy, there is usually some form of antisemitism, dualism, apocalypticism, a reliance on conspiracy theories, a masculinist perspective, and antipathy towards gays and lesbians. They also share some common elements with all social movements. At the same time, there are distinctive differences among White Supremacist groups. There are several ways to illustrate these differences. In order to better explain how these groups operate in the public sphere, we separate them into the categories of: political, religious, and youth cultural (racist skinhead, racist gangs, etc.) This typology, proposed by Vysotsky (2004), focuses on how these groups recruit and mobilize supporters around specific ideologies or cultural frames. We also look at several complexities and controversies in the study of White Supremacist organizations.
... After the Oklahoma City bombings mainstream retailers-such as Amazon-began distributing the book. Before the turn of the century, The Turner Diaries had sold over 350,000 copies (cited in Durham, 2002) and is now available in an electronic Kindle edition at Amazon. ...
This article examines the infamous white supremacist novel, The Turner Diaries. Our analysis illustrates the rhetorical force of a fictional novel, as well as the author's efforts to constitute an audience that avoided any overt attempt to reveal the nature of that audience. We suggest that the constitutive functioning of the novel is most productively explored by examining various elements of the novel as an example of what Burke termed “identification by antithesis.” We close by offering insights into how this case study, and the use of identification by antithesis, extends our understanding of the constitutive functions served by rhetoric.
With Patrick Crusuis’ 2019 attack that killed twenty-two people in El Paso, Texas, discussions of ecofascism were thrust into mainstream news outlets and magazines. In his manifesto, Crusius described himself as an “ecofascist” seeking to challenge the “environmental warfare” of immigration. His choice of target, a Walmart frequented by Mexican immigrants, reflects this ideological connection between ecological priorities and violent white supremacist ideology. In this paper, the authors provide a review of existing theoretical literature on ecofascism to identify its key characteristics, namely, its Romantic sensibilities, anti-humanism, and mysticism. The authors argue that these features distinguish ecofascism from what other scholars have deemed “far-right ecologisms.” Following this, the authors draw on a larger corpus of data gathered from Twitter and Telegram between November 2019 and November 2020 to identify common themes in ecofascist circles, including the thinkers they frequently cite. The dataset examined shows notable differences in the types of content shared in ecofascist groups compared to the far-right more broadly.
With Patrick Crusuis’ 2019 attack that killed twenty-two people in El Paso,
Texas, discussions of ecofascism were thrust into mainstream news outlets
and magazines. In his manifesto, Crusius described himself as an “ecofascist”
seeking to challenge the “environmental warfare” of immigration. His
choice of target, a Walmart frequented by Mexican immigrants, reflects this
ideological connection between ecological priorities and violent white
supremacist ideology. In this paper, the authors provide a review of existing
theoretical literature on ecofascism to identify its key characteristics,
namely, its Romantic sensibilities, anti-humanism, and mysticism. The
authors argue that these features distinguish ecofascism from what other
scholars have deemed “far-right ecologisms.” Following this, the authors
draw on a larger corpus of data gathered from Twitter and Telegram
between November 2019 and November 2020 to identify common themes
in ecofascist circles, including the thinkers they frequently cite. The dataset
examined shows notable differences in the types of content shared in
ecofascist groups compared to the far-right more broadly.
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