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
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
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.