National Bolshevism

[Red Warrior]

Can somebody please give me some specifics of National Bolshevism? I know that it is a combination of the Stalinist flavor of nationalism, specifically the idea of socialism in one state, that the transitional state should not actively spur revolution but serve as an example of what it should look like; as well as Bolshevism, the Marxist style of transitional socialism embodied by the Bolshevik Party.
The thing about it is that it's a Third Position party meaning that they view themselves as "beyond left and right," instead fighting for worker's rights as well as nationalism to bring about the revolution.

[Hrafn]

It is fascism with a red veneer.

[Rurkel]

The Limonovite group of Nazbols are more like fascists who pretend to be liberals who pretend to be Stalinists who pretend to be anarchists who pretend to be fascists who pretend to be liberals... etc. Before the overthrow of Yanukovich in Ukraine, they had the honor of being the prime target of Kremlin's "anti-fascism".

Still no friends of the left, or of labour.

[Sasha]

fascists call strasserites "steak-nazi's" for being supposedly brown on the outside but red on the inside, still thinking what we should call the nazbolls then for being red on the outside but brown on the inside.

[cyu]

Just as there's plenty of capitalists who fund attempts to co-opt Christians (American religious right) and anarchists (American "libertarians") to their cause, the same is true of fascist attempts to co-opt various movements to their cause as well.

Even stuff like environmentalism - not that environmentalism would be one of their major causes, but it can serve as a good distraction to attract away people's attention from other things. For example, say lots of Americans are up in arms over NSA spying or police militarization, one method of distraction is to set up a "liberal" environment group with lots of funding. The board of directors, of course, would be all your own people, who will be able to rope people in, in case they actually try to accomplish something real - and the rest of the organization could focus on wasting the time and resources of people dumb enough to join top-down organizations.

If you want total control, you'd want to get them at both ends - that is, massive riot police to fight them in the streets, plus co-opting the "leaders" of their mass organizations. This assumes, of course, you have no intention of listening to your people - which is typical of anti-democratic states pretending to be democracies.

[The Jay]

fascists call strasserites "steak-nazi's" for being supposedly brown on the outside but red on the inside, still thinking what we should call the nazbolls then for being red on the outside but brown on the inside.

So we should call them blood covered colons?

[NorthernRed]

one method of distraction is to set up a "liberal" environment group with lots of funding. The board of directors, of course, would be all your own people, who will be able to rope people in, in case they actually try to accomplish something real - and the rest of the organization could focus on wasting the time and resources of people dumb enough to join top-down organizations.

Like how some far right groups set up scab unions for their members?

[cyu]

Don't even get me started on the officially approved "unions" set up by the "Communist" Party of China.

[CyM]

The Nazis had to term their fascist movement "National Socialism" precisely because the ideology they fought against was so strong in mass support that they could only fight it by borrowing its name and calling themselves socialists. National Bolshevism is nothing more than that, in a Russian context. The Bolshevik revolution still maintains an attractive potential, and Nazis in Russia are smart enough to adopt the same tactic as the Nazis of Germany used, camouflage.

[Tim Cornelis]

Fascism is preoccupied with national decline and humiliation, which is exactly what many Russians felt after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The answer to fascism is restore the nation by staging a national rebirth based on some romanticised golden age period from its national history. This is either the Russian Empire or the Soviet Empire. National-Bolshevism seeks to stage a national rebirth through a Stalinist form -- fascist in content, Stalinist in form.