Ben Kissel

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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, partly, Madol's ideas on science came from the science fiction of the 1930s and 1940s, in which the so-called heaven-storming scientist fought against God himself.

Madol also absorbed the authoritarian utopias and the master races that were so popular in the sci-fi of the era.

And when you mixed in his mother's anti-Semitism and everything happening with the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s and 40s, you had James Madol, sci-fi fascist.

Let's say that they're more likely to die the death of Steve Jobs than most people.

Maybe.

So in his late teens, James Maddow found other sci-fi fascists like author Charles B. Hudson.

Hudson was a pre-war American fascist who, in addition to writing sci-fi stories, had caught the attention of other American fascists with his bulletin, America in Danger.

The Turner Diaries is a sci-fi novel.

Yes.

No, there is a massive undercurrent of fascism within the sci-fi community that's been there.

They're obsessed with Atlantis.

Yeah, it's been there since the 30s and 40s.

Well, in this conspiracy-laden publication, America in Danger, Hudson blamed the Jews for every bad thing that ever happened in American history, including the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Anton LaVey's future friend, James Madol, absorbed Hudson's writings, mixed it with sci-fi, and turned it into his own flavor of Nazi movement.

Managing to somehow be a nerdier fascist than even Heinrich Himmler, James Madol formed a far-right political movement based in the sci-fi community called the Animist Party, which was announced in an issue of the pulp magazine Startling Stories.

He did this in 1945, which is an

admittedly ballsy year to do this, to put out that ad.

I don't know why he called it the Animus Party.

I couldn't really find much information on what the Animus Party, because James Maddow, like all of this information is out there, but he is kind, he's a bit of a forgotten figure in the neo-Nazi movement.

Good.

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