Beware of the Reds in nationalism!
Ever since the National Socialist revolution in Germany, during the 1930’s and 40’s, a plague has ripped through the movement opposing every creditable and influential leader. Their opposition to everyone, from Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany to John Tyndall in Zionist Great Britain continues to this day. The Nationalist Support Group does not and never will approve of, nor encourage such divisionary machinations. This position will never change, and is just one of many reasons why the NSG will forever reserve the right to refuse any kind of membership or affiliation to any person without stated reason or explanation. Below is a couple of articles taken from Wikipedia which explain the beginning of Strasserism in Germany and how it infested the Nationalist movement in Great Britain. It still does to this day, albeit with much lower a profile leadership, relying on the dregs of the movement along with a handful of Nazi uniform fetishists. The main culprit for the red infestation of Nationalism was the younger of the two brothers, Otto Strasser, and in recognition of this I will concentrate specifically on him.
Otto Strasser
Otto Strasser (1897-1974) had also been a member of the Freikorps, but went on to join the SPD and fought against the Kapp putsch. However he joined the Nazi Party in 1925, but nonetheless retained his ideas about the importance of socialism. Considered more of a radical than his brother, Otto Strasser was expelled by the Nazi Party in 1930 and set up his own dissident group, the Black Front, which called for a specifically German nationalist form of socialist revolution. He fled Germany in 1933 to live in Czechoslovakia and Canada before returning to West Germany in later life, all the while writing prolifically about Hitler and what he saw as his betrayal of national socialist ideals.
Strasserism
The name Strasserism came to be applied to this form of Nazism that developed around the brothers. Although they had been involved in the creation of the National Socialist Program of 1920, both called on the party to commit to 'breaking the shackles of finance capital'.[1] This opposition to "Jewish finance capitalism," which they contrasted to "productive capitalism," was shared by Adolf Hitler himself, who borrowed it from Gottfried Feder.[2]
This populist and antisemitic form of anti-Capitalism was further developed in 1925 when Otto Strasser published the Nationalsozialistische Briefe, which discussed notions of class conflict, wealth redistribution and a possible alliance with the Soviet Union. His 1930 follow-up Ministersessel oder Revolution ('Cabinet Seat or Revolution') went further by attacking Hitler's betrayal of the purported socialist aspect of Nazism, as well as criticizing the notion of Führerprinzip.[3] Whilst Gregor Strasser echoed many of the calls of his brother, his influence on the ideology is less, due to his remaining in the Nazi Party longer and to his early death. Otto, meanwhile, continued to expand his argument, calling for the break-up of large estates and the development of something akin to a guild system and the related establishment of a Reich cooperative chamber to take a leading role in economic planning.[4]
Strasserism, therefore, became a distinct strand of neo-Nazism that, whilst holding on to previous Nazi ideals such as militant nationalism and anti-Semitism, added a strong critique of capitalism and framed this in the demand for a more "socialist-based" approach to economics.
It is disputed, however, if Strasserism effectively represented a distinct form of Nazism, or not. According to historian Ian Kershaw, "the leaders of the SA [which included Gregor Strasser] did not have another vision of the future of Germany or another politic to propose." But they advocated the radicalization of the Nazi regime, and the toppling of the German elites, calling Hitler's rise to power a "half-revolution," which needed to be completed.[5]
Strasserism in the UK
Strasserism emerged in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and centered around the National Front publication Britain First, the main writers of which were David McCalden, Richard Lawson and Denis Pirie. Opposing the leadership of John Tyndall, they formed an alliance with John Kingsley Read and ultimately followed him into the National Party.[9] The NP called for British workers to "seize the right to work" and offered a fairly Strasserite economic policy.[10] Nonetheless, the NP failed to last for very long. Due in part to Read's lack of enthusiasm for Strasserism, the main exponents of the idea drifted away.
The idea was reintroduced to the NF by Andrew Brons in the early 1980s when he decided to make the party's ideology clearer.[11] However Strasserism was soon to become the province of the radicals in the Official National Front, with Richard Lawson brought in in a behind the scenes role to help direct policy.[12]. Ultimately this Political Soldier wing opted for the indigenous alternative of distributism, but nonetheless their strong anti-capitalist rhetoric, as well as that of their International Third Position successor, demonstrated influences of Strasserism. From this background Troy Southgate emerged, whose own ideology and those of related groups such as the English Nationalist Movement and National Revolutionary Faction were influenced by Strasserism.
Today
The Strasserites of today are made up almost entirely of fringe group wannabe “leaders”, and the rejects of the larger or “mainstream” nationalist organisations. They are typically very loud, and very fast and loose with their accusations against the majority of other Nationalists. Without the use of the internet these freaks would simply fade into the background where they belong. It is my personal opinion that they should be starved of the oxygen of their own self importance, and ignored totally.
Pete Williamson, NSG.
