No, Anton LaVey was Not A Fascist

 No, Anton LaVey Was Not a Fascist 

By Claudia Berdella

The idea that Anton LaVey was some sort of fascist is quite ludicrous if you begin to weigh in all the factors of his persona and personal beliefs. For some right off the bat he was:

-Anti-collectivism (fascism is notoriously collectivistic by nature)

-Pro-individualism (fascism is contrary to this with its religious jingoism)

To quote Marilyn Manson on the subject, 

“LaVey had been accused of being a Nazi and a racist, but his whole trip was elitism […] doesn’t judge people by race or creed but by the attainable, equal opportunity criterion of intelligence”-The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell

Pictured (L-R): Manson, Anton, Traci Lords, Karla LaVey

This picture of LaVey that Marilyn Manson paints is coherent with that of his daughter-and only child of his conscious for the founding and building of the Church of Satan- Karla. In an interview conducted by Shane Bugbee in 2022 she explicitly states that while her father wasn’t a complete SJW he was for individual freedom and free thought, the reason he would associate with some fascist leaning characters was out of pure curiosity and interest in the taboo- he was a fry cook and new how to communicate with most anyone, and at times would relay the information and people he learned from as any proper journalist would. 

"My father was not a white supremacist, neo Nazi, or fascist. He instilled values in me that I can speak with authority on & his associations with people like Boyd Rice were not in alignment with those views. That's very important to know."-Bugbee interview, 2022

Artist and filmmaker Carl Abrahamsson details in an interview that while Anton himself was personally staunchly apolitical, the closest label to define him as (which, ew, labeling someone who didn’t have one) would be libertarian, which isn’t really synonymous with fascism- fascism transcends the political compass and engulfs it at the same time. 

Echoing Karla and Abrahamsson, publisher and multimedia extraordinaire Shane Bugbee details similar in both the interview with Karla he did and in numerous points of the Might Is Right 20th Anniversary Livestream. 

Now, of course Might Is Right has to be brought up because it’s a common point “against” the black pope. 

Baphy Myers did a well done expose on this this subject, so that is copied here for the topic and to close off this article: 

Might is Right and The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (original edition) dedication page: (image one)

The Pages of The Satanic Bible containing copied and rearranged material from Might is Right: (image 2)

Shane Bugbees republished versions of Might Is Right containing forward from Anton LaVey: (images 3-6)

Anton LaVeys forward: (image 7-8)

Anton LaVeys Final interview (regarding Might is Right): https://www.churchofsatan.com/interview-mf-magazine/

Quotes from Dr.LaVey

“A fractional content of Might is Right was edited for inclusion, because the book is so filled with glaring contradictions that it is at best a rant. It was that very rant format, however, that had fired me up, and in many ways, spoke for me. ... I intended Ihe Satanic Bible itself to be an "instructional rant," albeit a necessary and largely rational one. ... I decided to immortalize a writer who had profoundly reached me.”

- Anton Szandor LaVey

"My sources were Sibley Morrill and Virginia Harner...members of the "Magic Circle" - The Order of the Trapezoid, which was to become the Church of Satan. Some of Jack London's unreleased writings were stored at the prestigious Bancroft Library, where Mrs. Harner worked as a long-time custodian and researcher. She was, at that time, a close friend of Sibley Morrill, a researcher and writer on esoterica without equal. ...Mrs. Harner and Mr. Morrill arranged to let me see the "forbidden London material.

Among stacks of manuscripts, appeared entire sections of Might is Right in London's own hand. Elated as I was, I was not surprised, knowing what I did of Jack London. If London didnt author what I saw, he liked it so much he made his own copy."

- Anton Szandor LaVey

"What I saw (upon discovering Might is Right in 1957) should not have been in print. It was more than in-flammatory. It was sheer blasphemy."

-Anton Szandor LaVey

Hail Anton LaVey! Hail Ragnar Redbeard! Hail Satan!

Contra-Jexit

 Contra-Jexit

The Ludicrousness of The Satanic Temple firing Jex Blackmore

In the 2019 documentary- sorry, propaganda film- it is depicted that one Jex Blackmore was booted from The Satanic Temple for advocating the phrase, “execute the president” at a so called personal performance she held, but for some reason called Penny Lane and her film crew to film for Hail Satan?

Anyway the reason given for her ostracizing is completely and utterly absurd, I went over this a bit in my foreword for Shane Bugbee’s latest book, however will go more in-depth on the matter here. 

To put it simply: Jexit is bullshit and Doug knows it. 

In 2005 on a 24 hour radio broadcast called Radio Jihad, Doug was apart of a prank call orchestrated by Bugbee in which they called the secret service to ask about the legality of speaking the phrase “kill the president” and phrases like such. Much to their surprise, they found such exclamations are completely legal to say, as clearly portrayed in 18 US Code § 871: it clearly defines that verbally inducing this phrase is legal, however it is illegal to write and/or print if you plan on sending it in the mail- completely legal to say however. 

Later on, Doug was apart of a tour Shane did called the “True Crime Warped Minds Tour” in which the writer of the old Serial Killer Central website had this to write about his time spent on the tour with Doug: 

Find the full report here

On top of that, said image of George Jr illustrated by Doug in its original paper is pictured here:

Photo courtesy of Shane Bugbee

In short: yet another example of The Satanic Temple being stupid and the people who run and founded it; hypocrites. 

One interesting take on this story is that of Todd Bilsborough who hosts the A Satanist Reads The Bible podcast in which he has an episode (as well as an essay version of the same name) titled Contra Templum in which he gives the idea of Jex being fired for being an actual Satanist.

However if you look into what Satanism actually is, and what former high priest of The Satanic Temple, Brian Werner (no, not Marilyn Manson) has to say about how she got into a position of authority in the Temple, it’s a debatable idea. Nonetheless it’s still evident of TST’s hypocritical idiocy. 

Recordings I have released today

 Reading from Might Is Right : https://archive.org/details/all-else-is-error

Cannibalism Conversation : https://archive.org/details/590-a-0615-d-783-4-a-94-a-43-a-946-a-7264-abd-5

5/12/2023 AI discussion: https://archive.org/details/5122023-aidiscussion

Aesthetic Photography by Claudia Berdella

 Just some aesthetic photos I have taken 

Shoots and ladders

Get your daggers

Go to the fathers

Kill their daughters

Like lambs-

To the slaughter

Hang them up

Strip them clean

Feed them to the hungry

Rinse & repeat

defeat then eat

Reap to sow

Living But Dead

Living But Dead

By Claudia Berdella

Live

Everyone lives. 

But in reality not everyone does. 

Some merely robotically go through pre-programmed motions and thoughts for some 60+ years then die, typically having offspring who will only repeat this depression cycle. This is repressive, it doesn’t allow people to feel like an individual, it stunts the feeling of climbing the ever-changing social ladder, and this really makes anyone who is caught in its deadly claws bound to go insane. The Unabomber Manifesto says this sort of thing perfectly, and it’s hard to deny the possible validity of it, just look at all these mass shooters- white, middle class (typically) males who aren’t climbing up the ladder they were promised would be conquered by them, they can’t climb it so they feel stagnated and feel as if taking drastic measures to be known is the only viable option. And this is absolutely not limited to that archetype, it can happen (and does happen) to anyone who is stuck and put into such a state of stagnation and circular “living”- if you can call being pre-programmed alive, it sounds more artificial than anything… synthetically pathetic. Is there a way to fix this? There is no set-in-stone answer as of yet, but maybe the removal of repressive traditional norms could be a good place to begin reform. It is quite possible however, that an answer will never be produced- after all, if humans stopped preying on one another, could the species survive long?

Some Philosophical Bases

 “Everything old is new again and again and again” -Grab The Mic, MSi

I am but an amalgamation of philosophical thought coherently put together in a way that only I truly understand it at its core (individual direction). 

LaVey, Tolkien, Redbeard, P-Orridge, Orwell, Manson, Rand, and so many more. All of them influential for different reasons. 

Jung, Freud, Nietzche: all for introspective interest and so much more. 

Personally I agree with Varg Vikernes idea that Tolkien was a closet pagan. 

The Screen

I may be a misanthrope, but I love human contact… kind of, see; I disdain most people, they live as if they were on TV (are we on the other side of the screen?) and it’s depressing to interact with people so traumatized by reality. That said, I enjoy the occultic variety- there is where the fascinating ones lie; the ones who will discuss oh so taboo topics that most deny their interests in (repression of carnal instinct). However I am quite comfortable being a staunch individualist, though some times this comes to a detriment to my mental health, but I can and know certainly well how to deal with that in appropriate ways. I may be a social animal, however socialization is a subjective experience, I have my own natural homeostasis point for such experiences. 

People are weird little creatures, and I’m no different 

Apocalyptic Writings by Claudia Berdella

Is it inconceivable?

This planet won’t be leave-able

We will not survive 

Our Armageddon fable

We will reap what we sow

And long for that time oh so long ago 

The human experiment will end, something new may coagulate from it’s bones. It may not end tomorrow, but it will happen one day…

On the same lines as this podcast episode:

“Collapse and Occultism with John Michael Greer”

The Current TST connection to Might Is Right

The Satanic Temple is NOT as separate from Might Is Right as they want people to think they are (for the last decade they’re been screeching “wElL Anton LaVey stole from Might Is Right” (which in actuality only makes up 2% of the entire 200+ pages in The Satanic Bible)) and have neglected to remember their own founder’s history with the book, as well as showing they’ve never read either book.

As you can see, this is their “invocation”

And in the invocation it clearly says, “let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.”

Compare that excerpt with this one from the book, Might Is Right:

“Sagacious spirits doubt all things, and hold fast only to that which is demonstrably true.”

Maybe I’m just stupid and superstitious (which I doubt the latter, and understand that to a degree I am stupid, as is everyone). However that seems like a direct rewording of that said in Might Is Right… and to prove I didn’t make this shit up, here’s something that’s not a screenshot of the Facsimile Edition;

(Authoritative Edition)

For more on my research into Might Is Right, click here.

To find my original twitter thread on this, click here.