ABSTRACT
A new wave of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists has arisen—including the infamous Atomwaffen Division. And they have a bible: James Mason’s Siege, which praises terrorism, serial killers, and Charles Manson. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism, based on years of archival work and interviews, documents for the first time the origins of Siege.
First, it shows how Mason’s vision arose from debates by 1970s neo-Nazis who splintered off the American Nazi Party/National Socialist White People's Party and spun off a terrorist faction. Second, it unveils how four 1980s countercultural figures—musicians Boyd Rice and Michael Moynihan, Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey, and Satanist Nikolas Schreck—discovered, promoted, and published Mason. Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism explores a previously overlooked period and unearths the hidden connections between a countercultural clique and violent neo-Nazis—which together have set the template for today’s Neo-nazi terrorist underground.
It is obligatory reading for those interested in contemporary terrorism, postwar countercultures, and the history of the U.S. Far Right and neo-Nazism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|12 pages
#ReadSiege
chapter 1|10 pages
A Twenty-First Century Siege
part II|91 pages
Life among the Sects (1959–1986)
chapter 4|32 pages
A Tangled Web of Neo-Nazis
part III|44 pages
SIEGE the Newsletter (1980–1986)
part IV|135 pages
Countercultural Fascism (1986–1995)
chapter 14|40 pages
Michael Moynihan
part V|14 pages
Siege the Book (1989–1995)
part VI|18 pages
Coda (1995–2017)