The influence of 'Siege culture' and 'accelerationism
Propaganda is used prolifically amongst Right-Wing Extremists across the English-speaking world, where it is shared and adapted online, including by Right-Wing Extremists in the UK. JTAC advises that "similar and almost identical propaganda material has been seen disseminating from groups in the UK, America and Australia".[1]
Much of this propaganda is based on shared, transnational ideology, most notably that espoused by American White Supremacist James Mason in his book Siege, from which the terms 'Siege culture' and 'accelerationism' are derived.
A compilation of Mason's 'Siege' newsletters written in the period 1980-1986, the book advocates the creation of autonomous terror cells to wage war against 'the system' through violent revolution and political terrorism. JTAC advises that it is one of the few pieces of Right-Wing Extremist literature providing inspiration for how White Supremacist groups, both domestically and internationally, should operate and strategically plan.[2] Rather bizarrely, Siege is freely available from Amazon and other online retailers.
Mason advocates a five-stage approach to establishing a fascist, white ethno-state, first detailed in the 1961 publication This Time the World, by George Lincoln Rockwell, former leader of the American Nazi Party and a major influence on Mason.
These five stages are:
- making the masses aware of the National Socialist Movement;
- using propaganda to ‘educate' the masses on true National Socialism and the perceived problems caused by the Jewish people and 'black' population;
- entering into the democratic political process;
- coming to political power on a platform of 'dealing with the Negro people' through a policy of deportation; and
- the extermination of any 'traitors' (most particularly the Jewish population).
'Accelerationism' is a concept adopted by Mason whereby certain acts of violence are positively viewed as contributing towards a 'race war'—for example, Brenton Tarrant's terrorist attack in Christchurch in March 2019.
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