European National-Bolshevism

Unquestionably, Jean Thiriart appears as a continuation of the diverse German national-Bolshevik and national-communist currents of the 20’s and 30’s. There are, certainly, differences which are in great measure rooted in the evolution of the political and international context existent before World War II and after the sixties.

An apparent fundamental difference lies in the national element. Thiriart completely rejected [the idea of a] small German nationalism and [instead] defended the idea of a pan-European nationalism and community. [One must] add that Thiriart’s thought derives directly from the theory of “big spaces”, which sees in the construction of big economic blocks an answer to the challenge of the present times. Thiriart is equally in favor of the autarchic economic blocks and of auto-centralization, the prophet of which was the German Friedrich List. We must put this position in context in regards to the national-Bolshevik current, and particularly in relation to Niekisch, who proposed the constitution of a “German- Slavic block from Vladivostok to Flessing”. Thiriart proposes the creation of a “Great Europe from Rijkjavik to Vladivostok”. The difference in positions, [however], derives mainly from anti-Latin and anti-Roman attitudes, because Niekisch saw in these the power of the Entente and therefore [he believed them] responsible for the decadence and ruin that Germany and the Soviet Union suffered from. In a study published in 1982 and titled “L’Unione Sovietica nel pensiero di Jean Thiriart”, Jose Cuadrado Costa also responded positively to attributing the national-Bolshevik current of the 20’s and 30’s to Thiriart. Cuadrado added: “Thiriart, guided by his pragmatism and his revolutionary will, has defined in the last numbers of “The European Nation” the essential lines of what we could refer to as national-bolshevism in a European dimension”.

It’s this thought that would comprise the point of origin of a new national-Bolshevik political and doctrinal current in the early 1980’s.

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