> Thursday, April 9, “Countercultural Fascism”
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> This talk will discuss how James Mason, today’s most important neo-Nazi terrorist ideologue, was discovered by a clique of 1980s and ‘90s counterculturalists. Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, Michael Moynihan, and Nikolas Schreck used the underground music and publishing networks of their day to promote him and ultimately create Mason’s book Siege. Their linking of a radical cultural movement with explicit fascist politics, and subsequent denial of this as “playing with extremes,” clearly presaged the reactionary approach of 4chan and its spawn, who use the same playbook of “it’s just a joke”—when it clearly is not. I [Spencer Sunshine] will describe how this union of music and politics came about, and what the implications of this are for today’s subcultures.

#JamesMason #BoydRice #AdamParfrey #MichaelMoynihan #NikolasSchreck #CounterculturalFascism #Siege