National Socialism (disambiguation)
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National socialism is a vague and often hard to define term that has been used in self-description by a number of unrelated political movements. It may refer to:
- Nazism, the political ideology of the German Nazi Party of the 1920s to 1940s.
- In Austria-Hungary (May 1918), the Austrian Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (D.A.P.) changed its name to the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (D.N.S.A.P.). See Austrian National Socialism.
- The Sudeten German National Socialist Party was formed by members of the DAP as a result of the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
- The Czech National Socialist Party (later the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party) was founded in 1898 and was a moderate, liberal, nationalist party. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš was its vice-chairman until he resigned to become a non-partisan president.
- The National Socialist Japanese Workers and Welfare Party was founded in 1982.
- The term national socialism was occasionally used by Trotsky as an epithet to describe Stalin's and Bukharin's theory of socialism in one country [1] (see also Stalinism). This use of the term was not meant as an allusion to German National Socialism.
For a complete list of parties of various ideologies that have used the term national socialist in their name, see National Socialist Party.
