I'm reading Hobsbawm and these guys randomly appear all the time but he never bothers to explain who they are and what they want

  • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It's essentially the same function of earlier versions of the KKK like the Veiled Prophet Society in St. Louis - networking and reinforcement of bourgeois class solidarity through ritual, just less actively anti-labor/white supremacist.