The Conservative Revolution was a political and cultural flow during the Weimar Republic. This heterogeneous flow aimed at Enlightenment, Liberalism and Marxism. It leaned on conservative ideas. Progressors of this flow were Friedrich Nietzsche and the revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel.
The Conservative Revolution goes back to a punctuation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, but its meaning was named as a political flow first by philosopher Armin Mohler. This covenanted the values of conservatism with the aversion of the German Empire, which was offset by the defeat in the First World War. Mohler fought vehemently against the democracy of the newly founded Weimar Republic.
Under the banner of Mohlers Conservative Revolution, diverse intellectuals scattered by many public press performances. Because of the hostile attitude toward democratic values, representatives of the Conservative Revolution are generally considered as preparers of national socialism. They have been able to connect national conservative and national socialist ideas to different degrees, with varying degrees of success. Although the Conservative Revolution can not be justified by fascism or national socialism, it has contributed greatly to its acceptance. When the Nazis once were in power, there were many conservative revolutionaries who expressed their sympathy to the Nazis, but also others who fought and persecuted them. Edgar Julius Jung, for example, was murdered by the Gestapo. Also in the conspiracy and assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944, figures derived from the Conservative Revolution were involved.
Among the exhibitors were Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Oswald Spengler, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Martin Heidegger, Stefan George, Othmar Spann, Ernst von Salomon and Hans Freyer. Later intellectuals like Arnold Gehlen also felt related to the Conservative Revolution.
The Conservative Revolution consisted of different groups. There was the volunteer (Völkian) group for whom people, race, tribal or linguistic communities were keywords. A second group formed the young conservatives. In this respect, the central idea, order and elitism were central. A third group were the national revolutionaries; they held a high level of fighting, patriotism and social progress. There were also the Bündischen and the Landvolk movement.
The influence of the Conservative Revolution was also outside of Germany. In Flanders, for example, Joris van Severen, Victor Leemans and Odiel Spruytte can count on this flow. In the Netherlands, O. A. G.J.P.J. Bolland, Carel Gerretson and Erich Wichman's only relationship.
Today, radical-right movements and organizations like the Junge Freiheit in Germany or the Nouvelle Droite in France deny that they, in a similar manner to the Conservative Revolutionaries, intellectualized the right-wing thinking and found this in broad lines of society . This flow is called New Right.
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