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and its Discontents: "National Socialism as an Anti-Jewish... euvolution.com | News of the Day #463 - The kibbutz sheds socialism aapsonline.org | Costs and Consequences of Medical Socialism fightaging.org |
As the name suggests, features of nationalism and socialism are combined to form an ideology, although the combination process is neither obvious nor straightforward. The term most typically refers to Nazism, which was the ideology of the German Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers' Party), which was led by Adolf Hitler. As a generic concept, National Socialism opposes capitalism, conservatism, communism, democratic socialism and liberalism.[1] It may also oppose certain nations, ethnicities and other groups that are deemed to be undesirable. Several political parties other than the German Nazis have used the name National Socialist Party or National Socialist Movement, and the name has been adopted by neo-Nazi groups in various countries. Maurice Barrès was the first to coin the term national socialism.[2] Barrès's rejection of pluralism, individualism and materialism was rooted in a particular combination of the counter-revolutionary right (antisemitism, purging of enemies such as democrats and internationalists) and the anti-liberal left (socialism, nationalism, republicanism) in France in the nineteenth century. Historian Robert Tombs considers this amalgamation to be exemplified in Georges Ernest Boulanger, who was popular amongst royalists and the urban left alike.[3][4] The National Socialist Program as advanced by Hitler in 1920 set out 25 points that constituted the Nazi Party's fundamentals. The points were prepared in a one-night meeting between Hitler and Anton Drexler, and were presented at a public meeting on 24 February 1920, where they were affirmed by the attendees. There were attempts to alter the program in the early 1920s, most notably by Gregor and Otto Strasser. Strasserism is an anti-semitic blend of nationalism and socialism, and was a response to Hitler's anti-socialist authoritarianism. Hitler quashed such deviations at the 1926 Bamberg Conference, and the 25 points were soon thereafter declared to be "immutable" at the party's 1926 General Meeting.[5][6] The National Socialist Program advocated uniting the German people (through pan-Germanism), implementing profit-sharing in industry, nationalizing trusts, providing an extensive welfare state, instituting government control of the media, and persecuting Jews, in part by canceling their German citizenship.[7] The program stated: "Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countryman." Hitler's National Socialism was founded on a Weltanschauung (World View), in which history was reducible to a racial struggle (founded on a belief in racial and biological determinism) in the social Darwinian sense.[8] National Socialism was a Messianic movement, centered in the Führerprinzip and anchored in the thesis that only through racial purity could Germany find its salvation. The movement was based on antisemitism, anti-Marxism and hyper-nationalism, manifesting itself through pan-Germanism and the quest for Lebensraum.[9] [edit] Footnotes[edit] References
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