Folk Socialism

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Folk Socialism
„Brot, Arbeit und Würde für den Arbeiter!“
Basic Information
Aliases	Volk Socialism Actual Socialism National Socialism Socialismo Nacional Socialism-National (Erroneously) Revolutionary Conservatism
Alignments	AuthUnity  Culturally Right  Nationalists  Ultranationalists  Populists  Revolutionary Nationalists  Third Positionists (Some)  Socialists  Corporatists (Some)  Syncretic
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Volkism Nationalism Cultural Nationalism National Conservatism Hegelianism
Influenced	Spenglerism/Prussian Socialism Jüngerism Conservative Revolution Strasserism
Ideological Information
Notable Theorists	Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876-1925) Germany Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) Germany Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) Germany Gregor Strasser (1892-1934), Germany Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) Germany Otto Strasser (1897-1974), Germany

Folk Socialism is an AuthUnity, economically far-left, culturally right-wing, and often labeled as fascist or proto-fascist populist ideology.

Furthermore, Folk Socialism is often corporatist, aiming for a form of corporatist socialism.

Beliefs

Folk Socialism is economically far-left and culturally right-wing, although some theorists of Folk Socialism were corporatist, such as Oswald Spengler. However, Folk Socialism is not corporatist, as corporatists are a faction within Folk Socialism.

Folk Socialism, in its view, is a national socialism that supports traditionalism, nationalism, socialism, and corporatism, making it a syncretic ideology.

It is similar to the Völkisch movement and has its origins there, although obviously without the racism and ethnonationalism.

In the social realm, Folk Socialism embraces traditionalism, which serves as the foundation of its ideology.

History

Germany

Conservative Revolution

The Conservative Revolution (German: Konservative Revolution), also known as the German neoconservative movement, or new nationalism, was a German national-conservative movement prominent during the Weimar Republic and Austria, in the years 1918–1933 (between World War I and the Nazi seizure of power).

Conservative Revolutionaries were involved in a cultural counter-revolution and showed a wide range of diverging positions concerning the nature of the institutions Germany had to instate, labelled by historian Roger Woods the "conservative dilemma". Nonetheless, they were generally opposed to traditional Wilhelmine Christian conservatism, egalitarianism, liberalism and parliamentarian democracy as well as the cultural spirit of the bourgeoisie and modernity. Plunged into what historian Fritz Stern has named a deep "cultural despair", uprooted as they felt within the rationalism and scientism of the modern world, theorists of the Conservative Revolution drew inspiration from various elements of the 19th century, including Friedrich Nietzsche's contempt for Christian ethics, democracy and egalitarianism; the anti-modern and anti-rationalist tendencies of German Romanticism; the vision of an organic and naturally-organized folk community cultivated by the Völkisch movement; the Prussian tradition of militaristic and authoritarian nationalism; and their own experience of comradeship and irrational violence on the front lines of World War I.

The Conservative Revolution held an ambiguous relationship with Nazism from the 1920s to the early 1930s, which has led scholars to describe it as a form of "German pre-fascism", or "non-Nazi fascism". Although they share common roots in 19th-century anti-Enlightenment ideologies, the disparate movement cannot be easily confused with Nazism. Conservative Revolutionaries were not necessarily racialist as the movement cannot be reduced to its Völkisch component. Although they participated in preparing the German society to the rule of the Nazi Party with their antidemocratic and organicist theories, and did not really oppose their rise to power, Conservative Revolutionary writings did not have a decisive influence on Nazism, and the movement was brought to heel like the rest of the society when Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, culminating in the assassination of prominent thinker Edgar Jung by the Nazis during the Night of the Long Knives in the following year. Many of them eventually rejected the antisemitic or the totalitarian nature of the Nazi regime, with the notable exception of Carl Schmitt and some others.

From the 1960–1970s onwards, the Conservative Revolution has largely influenced the European New Right, in particular the French Nouvelle Droite and the German Neue Rechte, and through them the contemporary European Identitarian movement.

How to Draw

Flag of Folk Socialism

1. Draw a sphere with two horizontal blue-gray lines.
2. Draw a golden Reichsadler with an Odal rune (ᛟ).
3. (Optional) Add a black/gray helmet with the emblem of the German eagle facing left and a golden spike.
4. You're done.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Gray Blue	#222336	34, 35, 54
	White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255
	Black	#141414	20, 20, 20
	Golden	#ecbc46	236, 188, 70

Relationships

Friends

• Volkism - My dad.
• Strasserism - My other leftist son.
• Reactionarism - CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION!

Further Information

• Conservative Revolution