- 17 Jul 2005 10:10
#679794
Did Hitler betray the original tenets of National Socialism as formulated by the Strasser brothers ?
Otto Strasser accused Hitler of trying to "strangle the social revolution" by "collaborating with the bourgeois parties".
Gregor Strasser said this about capitalism: "The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers' labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism."
The Left wing of the national socialist movement was eventually liquidated.
I do not wish for it to be inferred that, just because I express no strong animosity towards the Strasser brothers, I therefore sympathise with National Socialist ideology; nothing could be further from the truth. The 'Guild system' of political representation of which the Strasser brothers were in favour is entirely opposed to my way of thinking, for one thing. As I see it National Socialism was simply a rivival of what Marx criticised as petty-bourgeois socialism in the Communist Manifesto, and I agree his analysis. I only maintain that Hitler hihacked National Socialism, and also that National Socialism in its original form was not fascistic but a form of petty-bourgeois socialism.
Otto Strasser accused Hitler of trying to "strangle the social revolution" by "collaborating with the bourgeois parties".
Gregor Strasser said this about capitalism: "The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers' labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism."
The Left wing of the national socialist movement was eventually liquidated.
I do not wish for it to be inferred that, just because I express no strong animosity towards the Strasser brothers, I therefore sympathise with National Socialist ideology; nothing could be further from the truth. The 'Guild system' of political representation of which the Strasser brothers were in favour is entirely opposed to my way of thinking, for one thing. As I see it National Socialism was simply a rivival of what Marx criticised as petty-bourgeois socialism in the Communist Manifesto, and I agree his analysis. I only maintain that Hitler hihacked National Socialism, and also that National Socialism in its original form was not fascistic but a form of petty-bourgeois socialism.