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National Bolshevism is a form of Syncretic Politics that attempts to combine elements of Fascism and Bolshevism . Influenced heavily by the idea of Geopolitics , National Bolshevism seeks a merger between Russia and the rest of Europe in a union to be known as Eurasia . The ideology claims a direct link to Hegel , whom it presents as the father of Idealism . In addition, it is fiercely Anti-American in tone. It is also highly Traditionalist in the mould of Julius Evola . Economically the National Bolsheviks seek to marry the New Economic Policy of Vladimir Lenin to the Corporatism of Benito Mussolini . This marriage of Facist capitalism with the capitalist portions of Lenin's dogma have caused many communists to reject this as a Facist Ideology . Its leading advocate is the National Bolshevik Party in Russia . National Bolshevism as an intellectual movement claims to have its roots in World War I Germany , where nationalist writers such as Ernst Niekisch and Ernst Jünger were prepared to tolerate the spread of Communism as long as it took on the clothes of Nationalism and abandoned its world-wide mission (an idea which seemed abhorent to the communists themselves). There was also a current in the German Communist Party based around Heinrich Laufenberg and Friedrich Wolfheim that, in 1919 , argued for collaboration between workers organisations and the bosses to drive the French Army of occupation from the Ruhr . Paul Eltzbacher and Karl Haushofer theorised about an alliance between nationalist forces in Germany and Russian communists and Karl Radek claimed to be sympathetic to this position in 1919 . Meanwhile, in ), came to regard themselves as National Bolsheviks, borrowing the term from Niekisch. Stalin's idea of " Socialism In One Country " was seen as a victory by the National Bolsheviks. In Western parlance, the term "National Bolshevism" has, on occasion, been applied to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his brand of Anti-communism . However, strictly speaking, Solzhenitsyn cannot be labeled a National Bolshevik since, whilst he was not anti-authoritarian, he wished a revival of Russian culture that would see a greater role for the Russian Orthodox Church and a withdrawal of Russia from its role overseas into a state of international isolationism. Solzhenitsyn and the ''vozrozhdentsy'' (or "revivalists" as his followers became known) thus differed from the National Bolsheviks who were not religious in tone (although not completely hostile either) and who felt that involvement overseas was important for the prestige and power of Russia. In fact there is open hostility between Solzhenitsyn and Eduard Limonov, the head of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party. Solzhenitsyn has described Limonov as "a little insect who writes pornography", while Limonov described Solzhenitsyn as a traitor to his homeland who contributed to the downfall of the USSR. {Link without Title} Amongst the leading practitioners and theorists of National Bolshevism are in Russia. Amongst other influences claimed by the movement are Georges Sorel , Otto Strasser and José Ortega Y Gasset (although this last influence is largely because of his rejection of Left and Right labels which is also a feature of National Bolshevism). In fiction, an apparently successful National Bolshevist movement is featured in George Orwell 's '' 1984 '' as, ironically, "Eurasia", one of the two rivals of Oceania . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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