Ideologies / National Bolshevik / Ernst Niekisch
§ The minds · 1889–1967 · Germany · Theorist
Ernst Niekisch
The original National Bolshevik
Red and nationalist at once.
Economic−72
SocialistMarket
Governance+80
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−30
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The Weimar theorist who coined a politics 'red on the outside, brown within' — fusing Bolshevik economics with German nationalism — and was imprisoned by the Nazis he both echoed and opposed. Documented, not endorsed.
social
Revolutionary nationalist, against the bourgeois order.
economic
Collectivist, anti-capitalist economics for the nation.
governance
An authoritarian state fusing Soviet methods with German nationalism.
Notable for
- Coined Weimar National Bolshevism
- Edited 'Widerstand'
- Imprisoned by the Nazis
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