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Not to be confused with Stransserism.

Strasserism is a culturally right-wing ( far-right for Gregor) and economically left-wing ideology based on the beliefs of two former members of the NSDAP, brothers Gregor and Otto Strasser, who sought to establish a "German Socialism"; using socialist economic policy to revive a medieval and feudal-inspired social order as opposed to the decadent modernist society of liberal capitalism or the revolutionary communism of Marx. While Gregor stayed a loyal member of the Nazi party until his death at the hands of the Nazis during the Night of the Long Knives, Otto separated himself from the NSDAP and founded his own party, The Combat League of Revolutionary National Socialists (commonly known as the Black Front), setting himself in opposition to the Nazis and declaring his ideology as a unique, more authentic form of National Socialism.

Strasserism favors a "nationalists of the world unite" approach and favoring everyone's right to a national (worker's) homeland. The original proposal put forth by the Strasser brothers, as opposed to the extreme expansionism of the Nazis, was the creation of a United States of Europe, with such proposals as a universal currency and abolition of border checks. The goal of this was to strike a balance between preservation of regional identities and the sense of belonging to a greater European civilization.

While Strasserism is known for its "Economic Antisemitism" as Gregor attempted to tow the party line of the NSDAP, Otto rejected any form of chauvinism by the time of establishing the Black Front as an opposition to Hitlerite Nazism.

History

Strasserism is a political and social current that originated within the Nazi movement in Germany during the 1920s. This ideology takes its name from the Strasser brothers, Otto and Gregor, who were prominent leader of the economic center left faction within the Nazi Party in its early years.

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Creation/Origin

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General History 1

The Strasserist ideology was characterized by a focus on more radical economic and social issues than those of other Nazi leaders, such as Adolf Hitler. Strasserists advocated for a different type of socialism within Nazi politics more similar to Prussian socialism the form of socialism advocated by Oswald spangler, promoting policies more similar to the most common understanding of socialism. This included measures like the nationalization of businesses and wealth redistribution, rather than German socialism advocated by Werner Sombart which was used by Nazism.

Gregor Strasser in particular was a vocal advocate of these ideas and managed to gain some support within the party, especially among younger members and the working-class base. However, as the party gained influence and moved closer to power

General History 2

As the Nazi Party solidified its position, internal tensions between the Strasserist faction and the faction led by Hitler escalated. Eventually, during the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, Hitler eliminated numerous opponents and during this event Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring used this for a power grab and undenounced to Hitler assassinated Gregor among others.

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Peak

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Downfall

After the assassination of Gregor Strasser, the Gregorian Strasserist ideology ceased to be a significant force on its own within the Nazi Party, and its influence gradually weakened over time and many of the Gregorian Strasserist types ended up uniting with Hitler. Hitler and his more economic pragmatic vision prevailed in steering the party's direction and shaping Nazi policies.

Modern

Currently, Strasserism is not well known to the general population, especially compared to ideologies with similarities (such as National Bolshevism) or ties (Nazism/Hitlerism) to it. However, it is an inspiration to some modern Alt-Right figures and movements. The flag of the Black Front, like the one used for portraying the ideology here, is sometimes used at alt-right protests and rallies.

Influenced

Some personalities and factions in the modern Alt-Right, usually the ones opposed to Hitler and capitalism, look for inspiration in Strasserism, which they consider the true and more effective form of National Socialism.

Comparisons

Hitlerism

Strasserism is more economically left than Hitlerite Nazism. It also can be interpreted as more conservative/culturally right, as Strasserism in it's classic form doesn't advocate for modernism and focuses more on agrarianism. Ottonian Strasserism is more democratic, as Otto advocates for elected leaders (Lifelong Presidency). As for antisemitism and racism, Strasserists with such views have different justifications, compared to Hitlerite Nazis. The former perceive the rich jews as bad because of the economic issues they cause to the ordinary worker, and have a problem with such capitalist exploitation by itself, even if it's done by a member of their own race or nation.

National Bolshevism

National Bolshevism can be mistakenly interpreted as the same thing as Strasserism because both ideologies combine nationalism with left-wing economy/socialism. However, depending on what variant of National Bolshevism we're looking at, there will be some significant differences. As a stereotypical interpretation, National Bolshevism combines Fascism with Marxism, while Gregorian Strasserism denounces the latter and Ottonian Strasserism denounces both. Also, National Bolsheviks are usually associated with pro-russian sentiment, similar to Fourth Theory, while Otto Strasser calls for a United Europe.

Intellectuals

Strasser Brothers

The Strasser Brothers, Gregor, and Otto, were prominent figures in the early years of the Nazi Party and played a significant role in its growth and development during the 1920s. However, as the Nazi ideology solidified under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Strasser brothers found themselves in disagreement with some of the party's political and strategic directions, which eventually led them to clash with Hitler and lose influence.

Gregor Strasser was born on May 31, 1892, while Otto Strasser was born on September 10, 1897, both in Germany. Both brothers joined the Nazi Party early on, during the early years of the 1920s. Gregor became a prominent member of the party and played a significant role in expanding the party in northern Germany. Along with his brother Otto, he advocated for a more socialist and anti-capitalist approach within the party, often coming into conflict with Adolf Hitler and his more nationalist and anti-Semitic focus.

During the 1920s, the Strasser brothers were part of the more economic left-leaning faction of the Nazi Party and advocated for policies that promoted social justice and economic equality. However, their influence began to wane as Hitler consolidated his leadership and his vision prevailed within the party.

The rivalry between the Strasser brothers and Hitler reached a critical point during the 1930s. Gregor Strasser was assassinated in 1934 by the orders of Hermann Göring due to his gain of power and threat to Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler's power. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Otto Strasser also came into conflict with the Nazi regime and was forced into exile. Otto Strasser continued to criticize the direction the party had taken under Hitler and warned about the dangers of extremism and oppression in the Nazi regime.

After World War II, Otto lived in exile until 1955.

Beliefs

Tenets

Strasserism is a political current that originated within the NSDAP in Germany during the 1920s. Its main proponents were the brothers Gregor Strasser and Otto Strasser, who had significant ideological differences with each other and Adolf Hitler and his more economically pragmatic wing of the party. Although Strasserism never became the dominant faction within the Nazi Party, its beliefs are worthy of analysis. Reference will mostly be drawn from Otto Strasser's book, Germany Tomorrow, as it is the most detailed account of Strasserist theory from one of its founders themselves.

Philosophical Foundations

Strasser begins his philosophy with the idea of nations as organisms, living things that follow the organic functions of life up until their death. Each nation, as a unique organism, has their own traits and peculiarities, as well as unique times of genesis and death. A "people" or Volk is born by the combination of racial amalgamation and interbreeding, material conditions like geography and resources, and the course of history which shapes the culture and character of the Volk. Despite geographical and historical separations, the peoples of Europe (excluding Russia) are civilizational brothers as they are all children of the racial forefathers of Europe, with each people signifying a unique combination of racial traits individualized by the factors of geography and history. According to Strasser, a nation is born whenever a people become aware of their national character and forge for themselves a nation-state. Germany, as the youngest nation of Europe, will determine the European civilization's destiny by the results of the German Revolution.

Strasser takes Oswald Spengler's law of civilizational rise and fall and supplements it with what he calls the Law of Triune Polarity, a law that proclaims the concept of empirically observable 150 year periods alternating between constraint and unconstraint, conservatism and liberalism, with each transition to the next era marked by a pivotal revolution; such as the French Revolution, the English Revolution, the Protestant Reformation, etc.. The eras of conservatism and liberalism are defined by their own pivotal values that shape the characters of those epochs; for conservatism, it is the collectivist "we-idea"; for liberalism, the individualist "ego-idea". In this historical dialectic, neither pole can be seen as morally superior to the other, as you cannot compare the moral worth between the night and day, they are simply the organic mechanism of growth and stabilization which human society follows. During each epoch, the dominant values manifest themselves upon society within three planes; body, how humans interact with material things; mind, how humans interact with each other; and soul, how humans interact with the divine. Following the "ego-idea" eras of liberalism manifest themselves as capitalism on the body plane, individualism on the mind plane, and materialism on the soul plane. Within the "we-idea" of conservatism, the era's values manifest themselves as socialism on the body plane, nationalism on the mind plane, and popular idealism on the soul plane. The Law of Triune Polarity gives a way of appraising the ideological attitudes of the past, alongside assisting in determining the course of future areas, as Strasser took the contemporary German Revolution as a departure from the liberal world of the French Revolution into a new conservative epoch.

Opposition to Marxism and Capitalism

Against Marxism, Strasser regards the ideology as a liberal creation; with its doctrines of class war, internationalism, and materialism as alien to the values of the coming conservative epoch marked by the German Revolution. Strasser dismisses the antisemitic theory of Marxism being a Jewish conspiracy designed to destroy the German nation, rather, he expresses that Marxism is simply the manifestation of the labor movement forged by the liberal era it was born inside, influenced by (according to Strasser) liberals like Marx, Engels, and Kautsky. The alien nature of the Marxist movement in the coming conservative epoch is seen in Marxism's repeated failure and fall to irrelevance within the West. Despite Marxism's contributions to the labor movement, especially with trade unionism, Strasser deems the failures of the Marxist parties as indicative of its incompatibility with a conservative and socialist future.

Against capitalism, Strasser sees the conditions of modern society indicative of the failures of the liberal form of economics in the current day. Strasser defines the "crisis of capitalism" as the economic system's inability to provide for the basic material and spiritual needs for the wellbeing of the nation, with each of its main components contributing to its breakdown. These components being the capitalist economic policy of a centralized worldwide system of production, exchange, and the gold standard; the capitalist economic law which decrees that private property is sacred; and the capitalist economic form of industrialization, mechanization, rationalization, and gigantic enterprises.

On economic policy, capitalism has failed the people in its management over world markets, the productive exporting countries are no longer found in first world countries like Germany or America, but rather in the ever-industrializing imperialized nations like India and China, destroying local industry in the West as goods in imperialized countries were cheaper to produce and sell. Some markets have been lost from capitalist reach, such as the contemporary Bolshevik Russia and Imperial Japan, who sought industrial production independent of the international capitalist market.

The capitalist law of private property, during the Great War, showed the inadequacy of individualist conceptions of property in the mission of providing for the needs of the many, and the institution of property that allowed the rich few economic power over the impoverished masses was put on trial. Since a the survival of a people depend upon access to the necessities of life, the means to produce these necessities must necessarily be the common property of the people to assure proper production and distribution. Strasser makes a distinction between private ownership of monopolistic goods (land, resources, means of production) and augmentable goods (things which can be produced in unlimited quantity), the problem lies in a class who holds private property over monopolistic goods, a person with great wealth in augmentable goods holds no unfair economic power over his peers.

The material form which capitalism takes, heavy industrialization and urbanism, has shown to be a detriment to the mental and spiritual health of humanity, with human life forced into tentacular concrete jungles and compulsed to work meager and dispassionate labor. In response, Strasser disapproves of the liberal and Marxist acceptance of infinite industrial production of consumable goods, and instead speaks of his own ideal of "a thoughtful and cheerful existence, which naturally requires as its foundation a sufficient supply of the necessaries of life, but seeks and finds its main fulfilment in very different values." In his critique of capitalism, Strasser breaks from both the Marxist and fascist camps, in which Marxist seeks to abolish capitalism while keeping liberal conceptions of human life, and fascism attempts to battle liberalism while maintaining the economic relations of capitalism.

Variants

Internal conflicts in ideology

The Strasser brothers had some ideological differences. For example, Gregor was more antisemitic and connected to fascism. He also advocated for alliance with the Soviets, and can be perceived as less democratic than Otto, considering the latter's concept of Lifelong Presidency. Ottonian Strasserism can also be seen as Distributist, since Otto mentions such policies in his book "Germany Tomorrow". As of today's political organisations and activists that can be described as Strasserist, some of them (on the National Bolshevik and/or Fourth Theory side) are more pro-russian, while movements like Ukrainian National Labour Party (Українська Націонал-Трудова Партія), now defunct, advocate for strong support for the Ukrainian nation and identity.

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Sub-Ideologies

Gregorian Strasserism

This type of Strasserism, advocated for by Gregor Strasser, the elder brother, has a more antisemitic and less democratic approach. It was mainly noticeable in the left wing of National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and among more revolutionary National Socialists, who were mostly purged in 1934 Night of Long Knives, as it called for more socialism (commonly interpreted) in the economy and conflicted with German aristocracy and bourgeoisie.

Ottonian Strasserism

This type of Strasserism, advocated for by Otto Strasser, the younger brother, has a less antisemitic (even calling for creating a Jewish state) and more democratic approach, along with some special economic traits. It is similar to Left-Wing Nationalism, as Otto supports international solidarity among workers against capitalist exploitation, however, Left-Wing Nationalism is generally more culturally progressive/left. Ottonian Strasserism also advocates for small business in the economy and a concept of Lifelong Presidency, similar to Elective Monarchism, which means electing a leader without term limits.

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Autonoumous Nationalism

Autonoumous Nationalism or Autonome Nationalisten is a German, Dutch, and British movement that has spread around Europe. The Autonomous Nationalists are third positionists who dress in black bloc and use tactics similar to Antifa with some even wearing Che Guevara T-shirts and keffiyehs. Politically such groups favor a more leftist approach and draw from Strasser's teaching. The emergence of the Autonome Nationalisten was controversial within the German far right because some older activists of the German extreme right objected to their "leftist" image and because the NPD feared they would complicate its efforts to take part in mainstream politics. Many Strasserist groups use black bloc such as The Third Path (Germany).

Regional Tendencies

Griffinism

Flag of Griffinism

Griffinism is a variant of Strasserism based on the views of Nick Griffin. It is primarily influenced by British Fascism, emphasising a strong anti-capitalist presence while still remaining opposed to Marxism. He believes in Ethnopluralism and promote unity between racial nationalists of all groups to join together to end Multiculturalism. As one of the lead figures of the Official National Front he supported Black Nationalists such as Markus Garvey and Louis Farrakhan, as well as Islamic Nationalists including Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini.

Griffin would later join the British National Party and become its leader in 1999. Under Griffin’s leadership, the BNP would distance itself (at least outwardly) from fascism- even invoking imagery of VE Day and Winston Churchill in its campaign material. The party also focused more on cultural, rather than explicitly white, nationalism. This was all done in an attempt to give the party a more mainstream image that would allow the party to gain elected office. In contrast to his previous support for Islamic Nationalists, Griffin turned the party’s focus towards anti-Islam campaigning- this was seen as more publicly acceptable than anti-semitism, particularly due to 9/11 and the growing visibility of Muslim immigrant communities in the UK at the time. Griffin did however maintain a relatively left-wing economic stance, seeking to position the BNP to the left of the incumbent New Labour government on economics and to the right on matters of immigration and culture- even describing the BNP as ‘ the Labour Party your grandfather voted for’.

Despite reasonable electoral success in the 2000’s, including winning himself a seat in the European Parliament in 2009- Griffin’s attempts at bringing the BNP to power would ultimately fail- in 2014 he lost his European Parliament seat and was expelled from the party that same year after relinquishing his leadership. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Europarty Alliance for Peace and Freedom, and has been involved in the British Freedom Party alongside Jayda Fransen and Jim Dowson.

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Symbols

Symbols of Strasserism include the flag of the Black Front and crossed hammer and sword.

Flags

Flag of Strasserism

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Drawing

1. Draw a ball
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4. Add the eyes and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#FF0000	rgb(255, 0, 0)
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)

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Relationships

Kameraden

• State Socialism & Nationalism - My parents! I just wished you two wouldn't shun me out all of the time.
• National Agrarianism - Germany must be re-agrarianized!
• Spenglerism - Brilliant!
• Ethnopluralism - Every worker deserves a national (worker's) homeland.
• National Distributism - The best economic system as an alternative to communism and capitalism, equal distribution of property!
• Socialist Corporatism - Great economics!
• Guild Socialism - Same as above, just be more nationalist and you'd be perfect!
• National Bolshevism - GANG!
• Neosocialism - Also GANG!
• Jewish-Nazism - Yes, you admit that capitalist bourgeois Jews are the problem, so we welcome you with open arms.
• Ikki Kita Thought - Basically me but in Japan! Just calm down on that whole world conquest thing...
• European Federalism - I kinda like what I see here, actually. I would have liked it even more if you didn't turn so progressive and (((capitalist))) recently, though.

Mischlinge

• Nazism - I have a love-hate relationship with you brother, but you're a backstabbing son of a bitch. Also stop hating on Slavs! Goebbels, you really betrayed our faction for this?
• Fascism - Gregor likes you but Otto disowned you.
• Marxism–Leninism - Can't say I like how progressive you've become but back then I swear I wouldn't have backstabbed you if we signed the pact. Otto disliked you, but Gregor advocated for an alliance with you.
• Reactionary Socialism - We should revive the medieval guilds, but I am not a reactionary.
• National Communism - More left than I am and he pretends to hate me for being fascistic but we are closer than he thinks.
• Crusade of Romanianism - My... libertarian son???
• African Socialism & Maoism–Third Worldism - I swear, it's my modern followers that are racist. That being said, can you please remain under European colonization? We need your raw ressources, we'll be nice this time. Pinky promise.
• Stransserism - Why is my son such a degenerate?

(((Die Banker)))

• Capitalism - (((Bankers))).
• Financialism - More (((Bankers))).
• Liberalism - The German Revolution will be a conservative revolution!
• Marxism - You are a liberal and your ideas can not be implanted in my new German society.
• Plutocracy - The bourgeoisie Jews.
• Kleptocracy - The Weimar government.
• National Capitalism - I already hardly tolerate his economic system, but this is a straight up betrayal to national socialism.
• Esoteric Fascism - Damn the SS for sidelining the SA.

Bibliography

Literature

Primary Literature

By Otto

• Construction of German Socialism by Otto Strasser
• Germany Tomorrow by Otto Strasser
• Hitler and I by Otto Strasser

Collection of Literature

• National Socialism: A Left Wing Movement by Povl Riis-Knudsen
• The New City by Gottfried Feder (In German)

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Quotes

"We National Socialists want the economic revolution involving the nationalization of the economy...We want in place of an exploitative capitalist economic system a real socialism, maintained not by a soulless Jewish-materialist outlook but by the believing, sacrificial, and unselfish old German community sentiment, community purpose and economic feeling. We want the social revolution in order to bring about the national revolution."

Gregor Strasser

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Further Information

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Nazism

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Wikipedia

• Strasserism

Online Communities

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Videos

• Strasserism (Concept & Ideology)
• The Divide: Hitler & Strasser

People

• Gregor Strasser
• Otto Strasser
• Gottfried Feder

Organizations

Political Parties

• Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

Groups

• Black Front
• Autonome Nationalisten
• Free-Germany Movement

Misc

• The Divide: Hitler and Strasser by Zoltanous

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  "Meet the Alt-Right" by NR34. Strasserism is behind Anarcho-Fascism and National Anarchism.

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