Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far-Right's Challenge to State and Empire by Matthew N. Lyons

Author:Matthew N. Lyons [Matthew N. Lyons, ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kersplebedeb

Neonazism

While the LaRouche network promotes conspiracy theories rooted in coded antisemitism, most white nationalists explicitly equate empire with international Jewish power. Neonazis’ hatred of the “Zionist Occupation Government” led some of them to applaud the 9-­11 attacks in 2001 and call for an alliance with al-­Qaeda against the U.S. government. Yet some neonazis, like LaRouchites, have also made overtures to leftists around anti-­interventionism and anti-­imperialism, for example when World Church of the Creator leader Matt Hale praised the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, or when the National Alliance set up a progressive-­sounding “Anti-­Globalism Action Network” website in 2002.33 The Third Positionist group White Aryan Resistance (WAR) was pivotal in promoting this approach in the 1980s, as WAR leader Tom Metzger explained:

We have taken a stand since the late 70s early 80s of opposing imperialist activities by what we would call the transnational corporate leadership in this country that we feel pretty much controls what goes on in Washington, DC. So we came out opposing the Cold War because our logic was simple that if there were any kind of nuclear war it would destroy the ancestral homeland of the entire white race. And from there we began to oppose intervention in the problems of Central America and so forth. … This would cause massive illegal immigration into the United States. … 34

Although WAR has all but disappeared as an organization, Third Positionism remains a significant current within the neonazi movement. A 2011 post on the neonazi discussion forum Stormfront argued that Third Position was a more effective framework than white nationalism for promoting fascist ideology to non-­fascists. The author, “PolishPatriot82,” claimed that while most people associated white nationalism negatively with racism, Third Position represented a combination of leftist and rightist views, so it has the potential to appeal to more people. “For example, Third Positionists are pro-­environment and antiwar (the left is happy) yet they are anti-­immigration and support traditional values (the right is happy).” PolishPatriot82 also emphasized that Third Positionism was “anticolonial”:

Third Positionists believe that every ethnic group and race of people has the human right to independence, freedom and the dignity and RIGHT TO EXIST AS A PEOPLE, A RACE, OR AN ETHNIC GROUP. In this respect, we completely reject what could be called the neo-­colonial agenda of the United States in pursuing wars for oil in Iraq and Libya. We are also completely against the military intervention of the United States in Afghanistan or their support of pro-­American juntas in Latin America to open up markets for exploitation by American capitalism. …

At the same time, the author also argued that globalist elites were trying to destroy European culture first because white Europeans were the most successful race in the world, and the only ones who could and would step in to help others. “[L]eftists know it’s true, with no white people around Africa and Asia will fall quickly.”35

Some neonazis have moved from Third Positionism to Duginism, notably former American Front leader James Porrazzo’s group New Resistance and its website, Open Revolt.

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