Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity

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Notes

Introduction

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THE RELIGIOUS AND MYTHIC elements of German National Social- ism often made the Third Reich resemble a cult in power.

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Nazi anti-Semitism was rooted in this apocalyptic demonology,

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large-scale industry, new metropolitan cities, the growth of capitalist finance and organized labor were all perceived as threats by traditional groups.

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Multicultural societies face a similar challenge today.

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Today, the United States and most Euro- pean nations are facing a demographic shift against their historic native stocks. The resulting issue of white identity recapitulates the dilemma of Aus- trian Germans fearing a loss of influence in the old Habsburg Empire.

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despite their overriding concern with colored races, neo-Nazi ideology still identified the Jews as the demonic adversary of the white Aryan peoples. Here the Jews are regarded as the architects of a multiracial world order,

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Hostages to the memory of German National Social- ism, the Anglo-American neo-Nazis remained trapped in a nostalgic cult of Hitler worship, while universal condemnation of the Third Reich and the Holocaust blocked any prospect of political success.

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Neo-Nazism has thereby acquired new myths and meanings for a younger generation.

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Nazism was mys- tified and romanticized into a neo-Gnostic religion with links to oriental mythology, secret Tibetan doctrines, and demonic inspiration. The effect was to dehistoricize the facts of dictatorship, terror, war and oppression into a mythological tableau. Reality soon followed popular literature.

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Free-trade agreements, the collapse of traditional manufacturing industries and the export of service jobs abroad through computer communications are stimulating racism and hostility to- ward liberalism.

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A century later, liberalism and laissez-faire capitalism are again seen as the motors of unwelcome and threat- ening change. And once again, extremist nationalist reaction echoes völkisch ideas by concentrating on defensive ideologies of race

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this new völkisch re- vival, especially prevalent in the English-speaking world, documents the re- action to the high tide of liberalism and globalization from the 1980s onward.

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Just as the original völkisch movement arose as a defensive ideology of Ger- man identity against modernity in the late nineteenth century, this neo- völkisch revival acts as a defensive ideology of white identity against multicul- turalism, affirmative action and mass Third World immigration.

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The original völkisch move- ment was the ideological precursor of National Socialism and the Third Reich. The rise of a new völkisch movement must therefore give us serious pause.

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study of contemporary racist movements may well offend politically correct sensibilities by posing the very questions which liberal elites prefer to ignore or suppress.

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My hope is that an un- derstanding of the substitute faiths documented in these pages, together with their causes, can help us avoid the recurrence of past conflagrations.

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1 American Neo-Nazism

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it was desegregation and the black civil rights movement of the early 1960s which have provided the enduring political motivation for American racial nationalism.

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The changing ethnic composition of the United States is a profound issue, as is the political cohesion of an increasingly diverse multicultural society.

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dra- matic cultural changes in American demography and identity.

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A mixture of clowning and provocation characterized all of Rockwell’s public appearances.

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Rockwell attended Brown University in 1938 to study philosophy and sociology. He quickly be- came politicized against the liberal, egalitarian tenor of social science and his teachers.

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liberalism was the “pimping little sister” of communism.

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His involvement with the Korean con- flict bred in him an enduring hatred of communism and a paranoid fear that it would undermine the United States.

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Rockwell now wondered why America had gone to war on the side of the communist Soviet Union and opposed “Christian Germany, which never had a single highly placed spy in [America], and no plans for conquering the world.”

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Rockwell’s success in achieving notoriety owed much to the growing strength of the contemporary civil rights movement

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