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What is "national socialism"

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national socialism

n. a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism [syn: Nazism, Naziism]

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National Socialism (disambiguation)

National Socialism may refer to:

  • Nazism, the political ideology of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP), existing in Germany between 1919 and 1945.
    • Austrian National Socialism, an early influence on the NSDAP
    • German National Socialist Workers' Party (Czechoslovakia) (Sudeten German, anti-Semitic)
    • Sudeten German National Socialist Party (Sudeten German, pro-annexation-by-Germany, successor of the above)
  • Non-German groups drawing inspiration from Nazism and existing in the same historical period:
    • Bulgarian National Socialist Party
    • Canadian National Socialist Unity Party (pro-Anglo-Canadian/French-Canadian)
    • National Socialist Movement of Chile (1930s)
    • National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
    • Greek National Socialist Party (Italian-style fascist, pro-Hitler)
    • Hungarian National Socialist Party (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
    • National Socialist Dutch Workers Party (1920s-1930s; favoured German annexation of the Netherlands)
    • National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (1930s-1940s; unlike the above, it nominally supported an independent Netherlands)
    • National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
    • Nasjonal Samling (Norway) (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic)
    • National Socialist Party (Romania) (German-style Nazi)
    • Swedish National Socialist Freedom League (pro-Hitler, founded in 1924)
    • Swedish National Socialist Party (founded in 1930 through a merger of Nazi and fascist groups)
    • National Socialist Workers Party (Sweden) (split from the above in 1933, became more Strasserite and independently Swedish before declining during WWII)
    • South African Gentile National Socialist Movement (1930s-1940s; pro-apartheid, white, anti-Semitic)
  • Neo-Nazism, a label for groups and ideologies after 1945 that are considered to be based on Nazism:
    • National Socialist Movement of Denmark (contemporary)
    • Iranian National Socialist Party, created in 1952 (pro-Hitler, anti-Semitic, anti-Arab, anti-Turk)
    • National Socialist Party of New Zealand (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
    • National Socialist Movement of Norway (contemporary)
    • Russian National Socialist Party (Russian nationalist, fascist, anti-immigrant, promoting Orthodox Christian theocracy)
    • Colin Jordan's National Socialist Movement (1960s) of the United Kingdom
    • National Socialist Action Party (British, founded in 1982)
    • National Socialist Movement (United Kingdom) (contemporary)
    • National Socialist League (United States) (gay, "Aryan", pro-Hitler)
    • National Socialist Party of America (white, anti-Semitic, anti-black)
    • National Socialist Movement (United States) (contemporary)
  • Other unrelated ideologies and organizations, some of which were founded before the NSDAP and thus before "National Socialism" became associated with Nazism, while others exist in non-European contexts where Nazism is not widely known:
    • Ba'ath Party, an Arab national-socialist party in Iraq and Syria
    • Czech National Social Party, founded in Austria-Hungary in 1898 as a center-left party advocating Czech independence
    • National-Social Association, a small center-left Christian liberal party in Germany, founded by Friedrich Naumann in 1896
    • National Socialist Party (UK), a breakaway group from the British Socialist Party formed in 1916; historically Marxist, it reverted to a previous name as the Social Democratic Federation in 1919 and then merged with the Labour Party
    • Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (National Socialist Party), a small socialist party in Bangladesh
    • National Socialist Council of Nagaland, a Maoist insurgent group in India
    • National Socialist Party of Tripura, a party advocating Tripuri self-determination in India
    • Right-wing socialism in Germany was regarded as a kind of national socialism

Usage examples of "national socialism".

Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.

Instead, he asked them to explain to him what they understood by National Socialism.

Good old Hermann Rauschning, a German of the old school and not equipped to participate in the New Germany of National Socialism, took all this as evidence of mental unbalance in Hitler.

The concentration camps are for anybody who still wants the socialist part of National Socialism.

Even the young ones, who in the years since 1933 had gone through the school of National Socialism, and who had been sworn into the Hitler Youth in the name of their Fuehrer, had now fallen silent.

He pushed back his chair and hobbled across to a small bookcase lined with the sacred texts of National Socialism: Mein Kampf, Rosenberg's Mythus der XX.

It was one more manifestation of the Through the Looking Glass land of National Socialism that Peter von Wachtstein had only recently come to understand and loathe.

And von Ribbentrop, like the Graf von Heurten-Mitnitz, had been an early convert to National Socialism and the Fuhrer.