The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right A Special Relationship of Hate

Following the marginalization of extreme right wing cultures after the Second World War, activists have sought new ways to develop communities of extremism. In part building on transnational elements of extreme right activity before 1945, post-war far right extremists have reconfigured their culture in a variety of ways. The essays in this volume examine how a process of 'accumulative extremism' has developed over time between primarily British and American activists, leading to a new 'tradition' of far right activity that has impacted more widely on the global extreme right scene too. Essays from leading experts cover a wide variety of themes, which include: the roles played by high profile intellectuals and activists, from the modernist poet Ezra Pound to the extreme neo-Nazi figure Colin Jordan; the impact of the Ku Klux Klan in Europe; the role of Enoch Powell in America; the influence of the American discourse of 'Cultural Marxism' on Anders Breivik and European Islamophobia; the international networks developed by the National Socialist Underground; and analysis of the Tea Party movement. Concluding the book is a short essay pointing the way to future research in the field of transnational fascism studies.

Dr Paul Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton, UK. He is co-editor of Religion Compass: Modern Ideologies and Faith, and series editor of A Modern History of Politics and Violence. His books include Great War Modernisms and the New Age Magazine.

Dr Anton Shekhovtsov is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Austria, and also a doctoral student at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK. He published the thesis of his first PhD as a monograph, Novye pravoradikal'nye partii v evropeyskikh demokratiyakh: prichiny elektoral'noy podderzhki.

Preface; Paul Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov
Contributor Biographies
PART I
1. Accumulative Extremism: The Post-war Tradition of Anglo-American Neo-Nazi Activism; Paul Jackson
PART II
2. 'Penny-wise…': Ezra Pound's Posthumous Legacy to Fascism; Matthew Feldman and Andrea Rinaldi
3. Jim Crow and Union Jack: Southern Segregationists and the British Far Right; Clive Webb
4. Cultural Marxism and the Radical Right; Jérôme Jamin
5. The Tea Party Movement at the Crossroads of Nation and State; Leonard Zeskind
6. The German 'National Socialist Underground (NSU)' and Anglo-American Networks. The Internationalization of Far-Right Terror; Daniel Köhler
Conclusions: Suggestions for Future Exploration of 'Transnational Fascism'; Paul Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov
Select Bibliography
Index