Epistles from the Apostles
Had to giggle when I saw that link to Dazza. What's more, the "eyewitness" report is loaded with righty-groupthink language and anonymous.
They often credit "Fortress Australia", too - they're in the same camp, I assume.
No doubt this is the sort of bigoted scuttlebutt that passes for 'evidence' for cretins like our crusader rodent friend.
The KKK were simply misunderstood. Now I got that outta the way, check:
Rank-and-File Radicalism within the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
By John Zerzan
http://www.insurgentdesire.org.u....org.uk/
kkk.htm
Thanks for the link, @ndy. It was a good account of the class-base of the KKK.
It would be interesting to know the extent, if at all, to which KKK organising conflicted with ruling elites at the time.
On the other hand, in spite of the decline of the KKK, it took a while for the US to abolish the Jim Crows laws, for instance. It's astonishing to think that, in the world's biggest supposed liberal democracy, there were, until relatively recently, racial laws pretty similar to those
passed in Nuremberg in 1935.
The Klan wears suits and ties now. Nothing ever progressive about them.
Anger and frustration among blue-collar people, who should be the natural constituent of the left, have often been co-opted by the radical right.
I keep reading reports of attacks on people by radical rightist, for racial reasons, or because the victim appear 'leftist' in the eyes of attackers. By leftist, I mean their connection to politics may have been as tenuous as a punk haircut, or overt homosexuality.
Certainly, the internet is a place where these sorts of people attempt to organise. I would say their attempts to organise have had some success, particularly since these characters become gentrified by fringe elements within 'mainstream' political movements.
I find this to be an interesting topic - the fears of the racists are often about the economy, globalisation, etc, but their 'solution' is to displace these problems almost entirely onto ethnic minorities and other scapegoats. When their interests clash with thos of traditional elites, the elites win every time and, lacking any sort of coherent worldview, the radical rightists never figure out why.
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