Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism

Spencer Sunshine holds a PhD in Sociology and has written extensively on the U.S. Far Right. He is the co-editor—with Pam Chamberlain, Matthew N. Lyons, and Abby Scher—of the Chip Berlet festschrift Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy (Routledge, 2022). Sunshine has also written for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Daily Beast, The Forward, and Truthout and has been translated into numerous languages.

Introduction Part I: #ReadSiege 1. A Twenty-First Century Siege: How the Rediscovery of an Obscure Neo-Nazi Book Helped Inspire A New Generation of White Supremacist Terrorism Part II: Life Among the Sects (1959–1986) 2. The Party of Rockwell: The American Nazi Party and NSWPP 3. Joseph Tommasi’s NSLF 4. A Tangled Web of Neo-Nazis: David Rust’s NSLF, the NSM, the White Confederacy, and the National Socialist Congress 5. Allen Vincent’s NSWWP and John Duffy’s Shadow NSLF 6. Karl Hand’s NSLF Part III: SIEGE the Newsletter (1980–1986) 7. The SIEGE Itself: Cult of the Extreme 8. Charles Manson as Neo-Nazi “Holy Man” 9. Universal Order as Idea and Organization 10. Life After SIEGE Part IV: Countercultural Fascism (1986–1995) 11. The Abraxas Clique and Countercultural Fascism 12. Boyd Rice: Neo-Nazi Collaborator 13. Adam Parfrey: A Neo-Nazi’s Best Friend 14. Michael Moynihan: From Mason-Manson-National Socialism to Decentralized Ethno-separatism 15. Nazi-Satanism: Nikolas Schreck and the Church of Satan Part V: Siege the Book (1989–1995) 16. The Book and the Reception Part VI: Coda (1995­–­2017) 17. From Prison to Revival 18. The Lessons of Siege Part VII: Appendices Appendix 1. The NSM After Mason: Brannen, Herrington, Schoep, and Beyond Appendix 2. The Original NSLF and David Duke: Big Nazi on Campus Appendix 3. Gary/John Jewell and Perry “Red” Warthan: From Anarchism to National Socialism Appendix 4. In Praise of Murder Men: Serial Killers, Mass Murderers, and Lone Wolves Appendix 5. Christianity: Jesus, Hitler, Rockwell, Manson, and UFOs Appendix 6. Women, Gay Men, and Extreme Pornography Appendix 7. Against Capitalism and the Liberal State: The Left, Third Positionism, Islamists, and Racial Separatism Appendix 8. Robert N. Taylor and Thomas Thorn Appendix 9. Michael Merritt and Keith Stimely Appendix 10. Varg Vikernes and the Heathen Front Appendix 11. The Satanic Temple: The Lasting Influence of the Abraxas Circle