Strasserite
Gregor Strasser and Otto Strasser (The Strasser Brothers) were key figures in the early Nazi Party (NSDAP). They were critical of both capitalism and bourgeois elements within the NSDAP, pushing for a more anti-capitalist, socialist-sounding brand of National Socialism—yet still deeply nationalist, racist, and authoritarian. Strasserites believed parliamentary democracy was weak. They advocated a dictatorial regime to unify and transform society. Strasserites called for nationalization of major industries (especially key sectors like banking, heavy industry) and a significant redistribution of wealth—though always within a nationalist framework. They stressed 'social justice' for the German worker—but not in a Marxist sense of international proletarian solidarity; it was racially and nationally confined (only 'Aryan' workers deserved these benefits). Similar to other authoritarian-left notions, some Strasserites proposed corporatist structures, bringing workers and employers together under state mediation to serve the national interest.
What it believes
Nationalism and anti-capitalism belong together: the nation's workers are betrayed both by international finance and by communist internationalism, so a strong state should break big capital while preserving hierarchy, soil, and folk.
The appeal
It speaks to the industrial worker who feels abandoned by the left's cosmopolitanism and exploited by the right's capital — a real constituency in every deindustrializing country, offered belonging and bread in one package.
Where it breaks
Its economics never survives contact with its nationalism: the Strasser brothers were murdered by their own movement precisely because breaking capital lost out to allying with it. The synthesis has no stable form — it collapses into ordinary fascism or dissolves.
Among its neighbours
The Falangist to its market side trades class rhetoric for corporatist harmony under church and crown. The Juchist to its left perfects the sealed national economy it gestures at. Below, the Ba'athist shows the same formula exported: pan-national socialism under a strongman.
Figures — real and imagined — who share the Strasserite base ideology. They differ only on the third axis: from radical to restorationist, each is a different face of a Strasserite.
The company you keep.
The social axis (progressive ↔ traditional) splits Strasserite into nine named shades. Take the quiz to find out which one is yours.
- Radical Strasserite
- Progressive Strasserite
- Reformist Strasserite
- Heterodox Strasserite
- Strasserite
- Rooted Strasserite
- Traditional Strasserite
- Reactionary Strasserite
- Restorationist Strasserite