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PEACE IS NOT ACHIEVABLE WITHOUT COMING TO GRIPS WITH ITS CONTRADICTION, HATRED. THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS A STUDY OF INDIVIDUALS WHOSE LIVES, ONCE DEVOTED TO HATRED, HAVE COME TO PEACE WITH THEIR ONE-TIME ANTAGONISTS. ITS OBJECTIVE IS TO ANALYZE SOCIOLOGICALLY THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR CONVERSIONS AND SO TO ADD A PROPOSITION TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF PEACE. THE PEOPLE STUDIED ARE: TOMMY TARRANTS, GREG WITHROW, CLINTON SIPES, TOMMY ROLLINS JOYCE BENEDICT, AND JOHN LUFKIN. THE CONCLUSION IS THAT IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO VIEW INVOLVEMENT IN NEO-NAZISM AS NECESSARILY ENDURING. IN GENERAL, A SIGNIFICANT OTHER, WILLING TO ESTABLISH TIES WITH SOMEONE WHO HATES, IS REQUIRED TO HELP THAT PERSON MOVE AWAY FROM HIS HATRED.

This article explores the genealogy of the relationship between the discourses promoted in the heavy metal music press and neo-Nazi publications in Greece since the 1980s. It aims to show that the proliferation of neo-Nazi ideologies and practices in Greece after 2008 was not simply a result of the – on-going – financial crisis; rather, its seeds had been planted during the 1980s and particularly in the 1990s. We shall illustrate how this connection resulted from a conscious decision taken by key neo-Nazi groups and explore how the cultivation of such relationships gradually led to the further dissemination of neo-Nazi discourse within the mainstream heavy metal music press.

I test some predictions of Gary Becker's theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by employers, co-workers and customers. I combine a 2% sample of the German working population and a 50% sample of German plants with low-level regional data, including the vote shares of three right-wing parties as a proxy for regional racism. The results show that (a) foreigner-native wage differentials rise with the share of right-wing voters, (b) the exact magnitude of the effects varies between skill groups and by gender, the largest effects being found for high-skilled men and women, (c) average employment shares of natives vary very little with the share of right-wing voters, (d) segregated firms become more common in manufacturing and construction when support for right-wing parties rises, while no effects are found for services and gastronomy and (e) the negative wage effects are strongest for foreigners working in services, while no effects are found in manufacturing and gastronomy. These results broadly confirm the predictions from taste discrimination.

I test some predictions of Gary Becker's theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by employers, co-workers and customers. I combine a 2% sample of the German working population and a 50% sample of German plants with low-level regional data, including the vote shares of three right-wing parties as a proxy for regional racism. The results show that (a) foreigner-native wage differentials rise with the share of right-wing voters, (b) the exact magnitude of the effects varies between skill groups and by gender, the largest effects being found for high-skilled men and women, (c) average employment shares of natives vary very little with the share of right-wing voters, (d) segregated firms become more common in manufacturing and construction when support for right-wing parties rises, while no effects are found for services and gastronomy and (e) the negative wage effects are strongest for foreigners working in services, while no effects are found in manufacturing and gastronomy. These results broadly confirm the predictions from taste discrimination.