National revolution

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The term national revolution describes a desired transformation of the bourgeois - parliamentary into an authoritarian - nationalist form of society in the European right . The national revolutionary circle of ideas became influential in the Weimar Republic . One of the most important representatives was Ernst Niekisch , who started the resistance. Magazine for national revolutionary politics . During the time of National Socialism , the term "Government of the National Revolution" stood for Hitler's Reich government , which was endowed with the Enabling Act of March 25, 1933 . The official ideology in the Vichy regime under the leadership of Marshal Pétain , who collaborated with National Socialist Germany , was called the National Revolution . The traditional slogan of the French Revolution of freedom, equality, fraternity (Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité) was replaced by “Work, Family, Fatherland” ( Travail, Famille, Patrie ) .

In the late 1960s there was a renaissance of national revolutionary ideas in Germany and France, when a “ New Right ” tried to form parallel to the “ New Left ” .

Individual evidence

  1. Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism , Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 3-110-16888-X , ISBN 978-3-11016-888-4 , p. 414.
  2. Volker Weiß: The authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Fall of the West . Series of publications, 10094. Federal Agency for Civic Education , BpB, Bonn 2017, and this. Ed .: Braune Theorieschulen in the context of the NPD , full text, 2008, by Gabriele Nandlinger u. a.