Conocida Activista Transexual on Nostr: But how did Mason’s Siege—an obscure, self-published periodical that probably ...

But how did Mason’s Siege—an obscure, self-published periodical that probably never reached more than a hundred readers when it ceased publication in 1986—become a viral hate manifesto three decades later? The final section of Sunshine’s book answers this question by tracing how a group rooted in underground subcultures such as industrial music and LaVeyen Satanism kept Mason’s thought alive by republishing and referencing his writing. This social circle, which he calls the Abraxas Clique, centered on musician Boyd Rice, Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey, author Michael Moynihan, and occultist Nikolas Schreck. At some moments, the Abraxas Clique presented Manson, Mason, and Hitler as ambiguous or ironic cultural signifiers designed to shock or provoke. Members of the Abraxas Clique were often willing to entertain controversial ideas—Parfrey promoted eugenics, Rice called for mass murder—but they stopped short of publicly identifying as neo-Nazis. But Sunshine reveals that key figures such as Rice, Parfrey, and Moynihan were less circumspect in private, sending fawning letters to Mason that seemed to express sympathy with his poisonous ideology. From Milo Yiannopoulos to Stephen Miller, we’ve seen this pattern of public disavowal and private affinity many times in the history of contemporary fascism.

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