The Socialism of Fools: Weimar National Bolshevism and Strasserism (Part I of II)

The Regrettable Century

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This is a discussion based on a paper Chris wrote about the concept of "German Socialism" from which groups like the NSDAP, the National Bolsheviks, Conservative Revolutionaries, and Black Front draw the basis for their ideologies.
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