The Ideology of the Radical Right
BAUM, WILLIAM C.
By William C. Baum THE IDEOLOGY OF THE RADICAL RIGHT The platform: neo-Nazism, racism and nationalism THE RECENT ACTIVITIES of self-styled Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell have received much...
...In April 1958 he wrote: "All who trust Christ belong to the family of God...
...The following figures, however, are fairly reputable approximations: The Defender—100.000...
...The radical right has been very successful in its efforts to convince people that city water supplies are particularly vulnerable to Jewish poisoning...
...More frightening even than Rockwell's recent prediction that the American Nazi party will win the Presidency in 1972 is the realization that millions of Americans regularly read and propagate ideas like Rockwell's and others of the radical right...
...Most of these writers assume the existence of "the conspiracy" and spend their time "documenting" its vulgarity and treachery...
...In other instances, however, the Nationalists have been more successful...
...These people equate cities with sin, corruption and atheism and many fervently hope the cities will "get their due" when Armageddon is fought with nuclear weapons...
...Through his slick magazine, the American Nationalist, Britton campaigns to keep the races separate...
...There is an ironical consistency in the Nationalists' equations of Christian and race...
...and the radical right has heaped unfavorable publicity on the National Council of Churches as "a Communist agency...
...ASSUMING THAT a "White...
...Rockwell, however, is only an extreme symbol of groups and activities in this country which actively disseminate one or more tenets of Nazi ideology...
...Defender magazine of November 1956, for instance, continues to "expose" this conspiracy in the footsteps of its founder, the late Gerald Winrod...
...This explains the intensive efforts it has made in recent years to mobilize itself into a potent political force...
...It is not surprising that Warren would be inclined to favor the NAACP," says Britton (July 1957...
...According to the American Nationalists, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against segregated schools, the increase in integrated housing—even introduction of Negro baseball players into the major leagues—are all the result of a Jewish-Communist plot to "throw the races together" so that intermingling will bring about the destruction of the white race...
...It recently warned its readers that the "twin Communist and Zionist conspiracies . . . sinister, immoral, and anti-social . . . [are] directly responsible for the world's upset...
...Rockwell preaches the old Nazi line that Communism is Jewish-inspired, that the white race is threatened by miscegenation and that all Jews must be removed or exterminated...
...The Jew plot of World control is the cause.' " Jewish-dominated psychiatry, poisonous fluoridated water, the Federal Reserve System, the 16th Amendment—even President Eisenhower, who is frequently referred to as "Eisenstein, the mad Swedish Jew"—are all given as manifestations of the Jew-plot...
...Cross and The Flag—25.000...
...Madole, who refers to Adolf Hitler as the "George Washington of Europe," recently wrote in one of his (undated) pamphlets that the "JEWS—control the financial and economic life of the world...
...Any man who would knowingly allow his own daughter to 'date' a buck negro to an interracial dance . . . would naturally be expected to show a strong pro-negro bias...
...One of these efforts is the Northern League, an organization of "blood-related" peoples in Great Britain, Scandinavia and the United States...
...Common Sense is published in Union, New Jersey...
...Significant political success has thus far eluded the neo-Nazis in America...
...Rockwell's histrionics as well as his violent policies may well hinder any wide appeal for his own party, but no one should infer that the ideology he represents is commonly discredited and without support in the United States...
...It is thus difficult to oppose the radical right because such attempts bring the charge of "un-American...
...THE AMERICAN NATIONALISTS, however, reserve most of their space, time and energy for exposing the most dangerous facet of the plot: the "mongrelization" and destruction of the white Christian race...
...One frequent answer, cloaked with religious "respectability," is represented by H. D. Herrstrom, publisher of Bible News Flashes...
...Gordon Hall, a student WILLIAM C. BAUM is Associate Professor of Government at Southeast Missouri State College and has recently completed a dissertation on the activities of the American right wing...
...But few would agree with Rockwell (undated leaflet) that "GAS CHAMBERS LOOM IN 1972...
...James H. Madole, head of the National Renaissance party of New York City, agrees with McGinley...
...The Senate subcommittee which held hearings on the bill was flooded with Nationalist mail and witnesses...
...In radical right doctrine land psychology), opposition to mental health programs, fluoridated water and any type of international cooperation are connected to the concept of white Christian supremacy...
...George Lincoln Rockwell is most active in Washington, D. C...
...Because of its frequent rallies, its references to Hitler and its crude anti-Semitism (one of their mottoes is "The Jew is Through in '72"), Rockwell's group is often treated as another example of the odd movements that inevitably occur from time to time...
...A recent article in a well-known scientific journal noted that more than half of the referendums for fluoridated municipal water systems have been defeated...
...By William C. Baum THE IDEOLOGY OF THE RADICAL RIGHT The platform: neo-Nazism, racism and nationalism THE RECENT ACTIVITIES of self-styled Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell have received much attention in the press...
...If anyone should mention the Declaration of Independence, the 14th Amendment, or even the major party platforms, the radical right has some ready answers...
...Another California group hopes to organize a lobby composed of American Nationalist groups, and there is evidence that such a lobby is now being successfully formed...
...to weaken and degenerate the entire Christian white race...
...By advocating free-enterprise economics, America-First patriotism...
...This plot, according to the American Nationalists, began with the crucifixion of Christ and continues today through Jewish-inspired Communism...
...Some, like Madole, are as blunt as Rockwell: "Only by abandoning democracy and adopting a more totalitarian way of life under a racial nationalist form of government," says Madole (National Renaissance Bulletin, October 1955), "can America hope to survive as a White Nation...
...Van Hyning warns her readers in the April-June issue of an enemy who ". . . prospers under cover and saps our strength...
...Egalitarianism is not considered a part of the "proper" American white Christian tradition and is denounced as another ideological device of World Jewry...
...One author wants "one huge Pogrom...
...One California organization has compiled a list of "Right" organizations and individuals in a booklet which contains more than 1,000 entries...
...It is a sinister plot of Marxist masterminds...
...Certain other authors and periodicals also pay considerable attention to the ubiquity and permanence of the conspiracy, but most attention is given to the "menace which threatens America...
...As one writer put it: "fluoridated water . . . destroys the body and mind and especially the will power to resist that which is wrong...
...Opposition to the bill stemmed from the Nationalist fear that Jewish psychiatrists would turn Alaska into a "Siberian concentration camp" where American patriots would be detained...
...Christian religion and "common-sense" realism, the radical right ties itself to traditional middle-class respectability...
...remarked: "Of all the bills which have come to my attention since I have been a member of the Senate and the House, the pending bill has been as widely misinterpreted as any piece of proposed legislation which has ever been presented to the Congress...
...Any possible increase in radical right political success will be due to more than just the noticeable increase in numbers and zeal: The American tradition lends a framework of respectability to the radical right...
...one member of the radical right contributed substantial material to the controversial Air Force manual...
...Common Sense—30,000 to 300.000...
...participation in the International Court of Justice...
...The pressure was so severe that Senator Henry Jackson (D.-Wash...
...they have the power to instigate crises and unemployment, in order to ruin individuals and States, and prepare revolutions: JEWS—are born revolutionists . . . the creators, leaders, propagandists, and money-purveyors of Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Bolshevism...
...Conde McGinley warns his readers (Common Sense, August 1, 1958) that "free, indiscriminate, intermingling of the races is the Jewish-controlled NAACP's goal...
...Audrey M. Shuey, of the Psychology Department of Randolph-Ma-con Women's College in Lynchburg...
...The July 10, 1958 Georgia Tribune (which bears the motto: "Racial Integrity is Better Than Racial Integration") told its readers: "When we fall into the hands of the Anti-Christ—The Communist-like over-ripe fruit, it will be the end of the GENTILE AGE...
...With minor differences, these periodicals repeat and expand on a single theme—namely, that all Jews are organized into a plot to conquer the world...
...Rockwell is leader of a small, hyperactive group which calls itself the American Nazi party...
...Frank Britton of Inglewood, California, is particularly disturbed by the sexual aspects of "mongrelization...
...Others have suggested sterilization for Jews...
...Conde McGinley of Union, New Jersey, has published the paper Common Sense for 15 years and is most persistent in his efforts to "expose the Marxist Anti-Christians . . ." (May 15, 1960...
...Because this bill never got very far in either house...
...The assumption that Rockwell and his group are only an isolated band needs some examination...
...American Nationalists blame Jews "for bringing the Negroes to America and keeping them here...
...Strangely enough, the radical right doesn't always agree on how the perfect society can again be attained—though there is widespread agreement that Jews and the Negroes must be removed from society...
...The American Nationalists got pretty exicted a few years ago when the late Senator William E. Langer introduced a bill in behalf of the Universal African Nationalist Movement, Inc...
...Britton, like most others of the American radical right, feels that the 1954 Supreme Court ruling was a terrible moment in American history...
...In the Herrstromian dialectic, anyone advocating equality is "the devil's messenger" and of a lower order...
...At present, the strength of the radical right is not great—but who can tell what will happen in the future as it continues its wild efforts...
...All who fail to trust Christ belong to the family of Satan...
...Virtually everyone in the radical right refers to the day of that decision as "Black Monday...
...While only a few "doctrinaires" like Rockwell have a full-blown program, including gas chambers for Jews, there are estimated to be well over 500 periodicals which regularly preach tenets of Nazi ideology...
...A regional breakdown would seem to indicate that the majority of publications comes from the South and the West Coast, though many come from the North and East as well...
...While many journals come from large urban areas, the ideology expresses the theme of agrarian virtue...
...A fraudulent definition of equality would brand us bigots and hate-mongers for following the pattern of blood-line purity set up by the Creator Himself...
...Virginia, was quoted in Right magazine (June 1958), as saying "that there is a racial difference...
...depending on the topic...
...At the local level the radical right has helped block despised fluoridated water programs...
...Its strength is further enhanced by opposing the Jew, the Negro and the left-wing radical, traditional foes of the middle class...
...This fact is obvious to any "honest person," continues the author of the article, but "nothing short of revolutionary for the White-hating Zionist zealots and scientific prostitutes in our universities...
...The radical right opposes these things because they are thought to be a literal threat to their concept of moral and physical integrity...
...According to this plan (which has been advocated for over 30 years), the Federal Government would provide transportation for all Negroes wanting to return to their "native land...
...of the radical right, has estimated that over 5 million Americans read these periodicals each month...
...In 1956, the radical right was able to change the wording of H. R. 6376, a bill designed to grant Alaska a mental hospital program...
...The periodicals themselves range from single-page mimeographed sheets to slick multi-colored magazines and emanate from all sections of the country...
...Women's Voice—10,000...
...News Behind The News—12,000...
...The "back-to-Africa" campaign for American Negroes is another solution proposed by American Nationalists...
...But in the first half of 1960 the American radical right has been active in the campaign to restrict U.S...
...One of these is Lyrl Clark Van Hyning, an elderly Chicago woman who has spent the last 18 years describing "the menace" in her 16-page monthly, Women's Voice...
...the National Renaissance party is in New York...
...The number of people in America who accept and circulate these beliefs is astounding...
...It is difficult to obtain a careful breakdown of readership or subscription figures, because those in the radical right tend to either inflate the figures or refuse to give any answers because of their suspiciousness of inquiry...
...Christian America" did exist, what does the American radical right propose to do to resurrect such a society...
...Racism is a dominant theme in American neo-Nazism and there is explicit awareness of this...
...The well-known Gerald L. K. Smith recently stated (Cross and The Flag, November 1959) that "they [knaves and fools] would adulterate our bloodstreams and mix it with the blood line of men and women fresh from cannibalism and savagery...
Vol. 43 • October 1960 • No. 40
