History of strasserism

• Strasserism is a tendency within Nazism that draws influence from socialist economics while advocating for radical, worker-based mass action and espousing economic antisemitism over other forms of antisemitism
• Strasserism was named after the brothers Gregor and Otto Strasser, who were initially associated with this position
• Otto Strasser opposed the views of Adolf Hitler and was expelled from the Nazi Party in 1930 while Gregor Strasser was murdered in Germany in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives
• Strasserism seeks to create a classless, socialist society but remains an active position within strands of postwar global neo-Nazism
• Although Strasser initially called himself a socialist, some argue that he was not one since he wanted private property to exist, but more state-owned property, and argued for a mixed economy rather than socialism itself
• Strasserism has been debated for its racial viewpoints. While some argue that it is racist due to its antisemitic views, others argue that Strasserism’s focus on a more ecological outlook means it is more supportive of the people regardless of language or race
• Strasser himself felt that race is not fundamental to nationhood since the German people were constituted by four or five different races, with many geopolitical and climate influences that forged what we call a people
• Strasserism has been compared to NazBol, a movement that is a fusion of fascism and socialism
• To be a socialist means that you want to abolish private property, but Strasser sought to impose regulations and taxation that would give working people a fair share and more of a say in their lives while still retaining private property
• There has been much debate about whether Strasserism is a form of socialist ideology, with some saying that it is, while others argue that Strasserism is not socialist, but rather a form of fascism or neo-fascism
• Redditors debated whether the abolishment of private property is the main requirement for something to be called socialist, with some arguing that it is, while others argue that socialism can be achieved through state regulation and taxation
• There have been many ‘what-if’ scenarios floated regarding Strasserism, with people pondering how different the world might look if instead of Hitler, Germany had gotten Otto Strasser and the Black Front, and whether Strasserism would have avoided or caused conflict and violence
• The website in which this text appeared has been identified as promoting unironic NazBol views

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• The political orientation of Strasserism is difficult to discern for several reasons. For one thing, the Third Reich’s murder of Gregor Strasser and the exile of Otto Strasser forced the latter to define his ideology as an oppositional ideology to Hitler’s NSDAP.
• Neither Strasser brother really defined their movement outside of vague conspiracies and airy dreams of a national community where class was irrelevant.
• Strasserism makes more sense to characterize as a German right-wing phenomenon.
• Strasserism in the 1920s fell into a tradition of German right-wing political discourse that did not reject capitalism and private property per se, but rather specific types of capitalism and the market.
• The Strassers and Ernst Röhm were the general leaders of the party’s “left-wing,” but this label is deceptive.
• The NSDAP’s approach to the social question, including the Strassers, tended to stress that removing “foreign” elements within the economy would render socioeconomic distinctions moot.
• The Strassers and others of the this “left-wing” focused on schaffendes Kapital (creative/ productive capital) and Finanzkapitalismus (financial capitalism) or raffendes Kapital (which translates roughly to “money-grubbing capitalism).
• These type of distinctions for economic activity were common within the Weimar right and had their antecedents within the Kaiserreich.
• The First World War sharpened the division between productive/non-productive capitalism within the German right as the stock image of the UK in wartime propaganda was that it was the haven of Mammonism and finance.
• The advent of American-style consumerism and the penetration of American imports like Ford, Coca-Cola, and Josephine Baker in the 1920s added further fuel to this right-wing reaction.
• Ideologues within the SPD and the KPD did not come to reject capitalism on the basis of some mystical connection between the Volkcommunity and labor, but rather through specific Marxian critiques of capital and exploitation.
• The SPD tacked to a more moderate approach than the KPD; the [Erfurt Program] and the subsequent [Görlitz] and [Heidelberg Programs] tended to argue for a revoution via a gradual democratic process.
• Differences between the KPD and SPD aside, their approach to the social question was fundamentally different than that of Strasserism.
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• Strasserism is a faction within the early days of the Nazi party led by the Strasser brothers and represented the left-wing of the party.
• In contrast to the “right wing,” Strasserists were explicitly pro-worker and wanted to base the Nazi party around mass action and radicalized workers instead of the pro-business policies that Hitler eventually enacted.
• The faction was killed during the Night of Long Knives after years of feuding between the two factions.
• Italian Fascism, NatSoc, Falangism, Legionairism are all Fascist movements, but geared towards their respective countries.
• Fascism is non-universalist, so it conforms to the National Spirit and manifests differently at different times and places.
• Traditionalism is elitist rather than populist, anti-republican, and more aristocratic. Which is why Evola heavily criticized the Fascist regimes of Germany and Italy.
• Salazarism - authoritarian corporatist. basically, corporations rule everything with an iron fist.
• Portugal was pretty isolated. They got color television and even Coca Cola later than most western countries.
• Strasser wanted class-warfare, while Hitler wanted to allow companies to exist so long as they worked in the interests of the State.
• I’m originally from Portugal my mom though is from Peru.
• Salazar’s regime was called the Estado Novo.
• The government strongly emphasized Catholicism as part of Portugal’s national identity. That is to a degree true because Portugal is very Catholic but they went pretty overboard.
• They did teach Catholicism in school.
• As a matter of policy, they didn’t teach about Portugal’s horrific atrocities in their colonies.
• The universities were the site of lots of crackdowns.
• People here say America does a horrible job of teaching its dark past with slavery. They probably could do better but in Estado Novo Portugal they did a bad job intentionally.
• The government didn’t tolerate the stuff the US govern did.
• My grandparents wanted to emigrate because of the mandatory conscription policy.
• They did have a brutal secret police. It was so feared that people said when walking past it’s headquarters, people would walk to the other side of the street.
• All the far-right fascist type movements are focused on one race, one nation, one people, one culture.
• Mussolini and Hitler didn’t just have a political and economic plan, they had

• The webpage is a post on the subreddit r/LeftWingNationalism titled “4 Corners of Left Wing Nationalism. Accurate or not?”.
• The subreddit post is 1 year and 2 months old.
• The post has received 13 points.
• There are comments from various Reddit users discussing the four categories of left-wing nationalism: “National Bolshevism”, “Strasserism”, “Conservative Socialism”, and “Trade Unionist Nationalism”.
• One user suggests that National Bolshevism is not in the auth center, but rather auth left.
• Another user argues that Karl O. Paetel’s economic plan, the most famous advocate of national bolshevism as an ideology, had no considerable differences from the KDP and therefore places national bolshevism on the far-left economic spectrum.
• There is debate among the commenters on whether Strasserism is racist or not and its position on the political spectrum.
• One user argues strasserism is not racist to the extent of Hitlerist Nazism and is closer to guild socialism and distributism in its economic structure.
• Several users agree that Strasserism is in the AuthLeft, but they differ on whether it’s closer to the center or the more extreme end of the spectrum.
• Different users disagree with the original 4 corner concept, suggesting that it’s a flawed system for categorizing left-wing ideologies.
• There is a comment asking why national-syndicalism isn’t included in the 4 corners.

Overall, the Subreddit post is a discussion on the four corners of left-wing nationalism, and there are comments discussing how different ideologies fit into the four categories. There is debate among the commenters on whether Strasserism is racist or not and what its exact political placement is. The thread also highlights criticisms of the four corners system and suggests that it’s a flawed system for categorizing left-wing ideologies.

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• The thread title is “Can someone explain to me what ‘fascism’ is, exactly?”
• The thread was posted on r/CriticalTheory.
• The post received 163 upvotes and is 1 year, 6 months old.
• The thread discusses various definitions of fascism, as well as its relationship with socialism and capitalism.
• A user posts a quote from Walter Benjamin’s artwork essay giving one definition of fascism: “Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses while leaving intact the property relations which they strive to abolish… The masses have a right to changed property relations; fascism seeks to give them expression in keeping these relations unchanged.”
• Benjamin argues that “behind every fascism, there is a failed revolution.”
• Another user recommends a lecture by Michael Parenti, which gives a Marxist explanation of fascism and its relationship with capitalism.
• The same user writes that fascism results from the failure of liberalism to mitigate the contradictions of capitalism, resulting in a coalition of capital and labor enforced by capital-backed state authority.
• The user claims that this coalition involves the mass murder of leftists and unionists.
• Other users in the thread agree with the Marxist explanation of fascism, while some provide additional context on the symbols associated with fascism such as the fasces and their connection to ancient Rome.
• Overall, the thread provides a critical theory perspective on the definition of fascism.

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• Strasserism: a radical and mass-action form of Nazism that advocates economic antisemitism and a worker-based approach to achieve national rebirth.
• Strasserism is named after the Strasser brothers, Gregor and Otto, who were initially associated with this position.
• In 1920, the Strasser brothers were involved in the creation of the National Socialist Program of Germany.
• In 1925, Otto Strasser wrote “Nationalsozialistische Briefe,” which discussed class conflict, wealth redistribution, and a possible alliance with the Soviet Union.
• In his 1930 book, “Ministersessel oder Revolution,” Otto Strasser attacked Hitler’s betrayal of the socialist aspect of Nazism as well as the notion of the Führerprinzip.
• Strasserism advocates for the breaking of the shackles of finance capital, which it sees as Jewish capitalism.
• Strasserism is associated with the rejection of so-called finance capitalism and money-grubbing capitalism, as opposed to producerism or productive capitalism.
• Strasserism calls for strong action to address poverty and build working-class support for the revolution.
• Strasserism became a strand of Nazism holding previous Nazi ideals such as antisemitism and palingenetic ultranationalism, adding a critique of capitalism on economic antisemitic grounds.
• Strasserism also envisions a guild socialism-like structure, calling for the break-up of large estates and the establishment of a Reich cooperative chamber to play a leading role in economic planning.
• Strasserism was not a distinct form of Nazism; its advocates called for the radicalization of the Nazi regime and the toppling of the German elites, arguing that Hitler’s rise to power was a half-revolution that needed completion.
• Otto Strasser, who opposed Hitler on strategic grounds, was expelled from the Nazi Party in 1930 and wrote prolifically about Hitler and his betrayal of Nazism’s ideals while living in exile in Czechoslovakia and Canada.
• Gregor Strasser was one of Hitler’s early supporters but became a strong advocate of the radical wing of the Nazi Party, arguing that the national revolution should also include strong action to tackle poverty and build working class support.
• After Hitler rose to power, the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 was a violent operation against many of his opponents, including Strasserist elements nationwide. Gregor Strasser was among those killed.
• Strasserism remains an active position within strands of postwar global neo-N

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• The webpage is a post on Reddit titled “Can someone explain the difference between Strasserism and Nazism” and was posted on April 2020.
• The post has six upvotes, which means it is not a popular post.
• The only text in the webpage are two comments by Reddit users who attempted to answer the question.
• The first comment by a Reddit user with 10 karma states that Strasserism has more of a socialist economy compared to Nazism, which is placed around the center.
• The second comment by a Reddit user with 1 karma describes Strasserism as more socialist than fascism, while Nazism is just a racist form of fascism.
• This user also briefly mentions Flangism as another similar ideology to Strasserism.
• There are no links or external references in the webpage that can be used for further research.
• The subreddit where the post was made, “r/PoliticalCompass,” describes itself as a forum for discussing political ideologies, political theories, and news stories from around the world, from the perspective of different political philosophies.
• The subreddit has over 300k members, and its political compass is described as a way to easily show where someone stands on the divisive issues of birth control, gay rights, gun control, capital punishment, and religion in schools.
• The subreddit also has rules that prohibit personal attacks, trolling, and spamming.

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