National Syndicalism

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National Syndicalism is an economically left, authoritarian and culturally right ideology, based upon the beliefs and thinking of Georges Sorel and his nationalist admirers. It opposes the bourgeoisie, liberal democracy and secularism.

Beliefs

Sorelianism

Sorelianism is a revolutionary strand of syndicalism based upon a revisionist conception of Marxism devoid of materialism and determinism. It represents Sorel's most original views and contributions to political thought, among which the most important are his advocacy of proletarian violence and myth (understood as idealized narratives) as a mobilizing revolutionary force. Unlike the distributive focus common among labor movements and theorists, Sorelianism's repudiation of the capitalist bourgeoisie comes from its assessment of them as parasitic agents in the economy that hinder productivity, and that the only true remedy is worker ownership over the means of production. Sorel placed his hopes on a massive general strike which would escalate into class war, concluding with the proletariat ushering in a new order where it would organize society, bolster economic productivity and rescue civilization from bourgeoise decadence.

When syndicalism began to wane in Europe, he was left disillusioned by the proletariat's refusal to carry out its revolutionary duty and its greater incorporation into democratic politics. Looking for alternative engines of revolution, Sorel discarded Marxism altogether in favor of integral nationalism and a greater emphasis on Proudhonism, birthing a unique form of left-wing nationalism which was expressed in its purest form by Georges Valois' Cercle Proudhon, a social circle affiliated with Action Française. The circle became a laboratory of ideas in which revolutionary syndicalists and integral nationalists bonded over their anti-democratic sentiment and engaged in intellectual exchange that crystalized national syndicalism as a syncretic ideology belonging to a "third position" that was neither right nor left. Its defining characteristic became its total rejection of the bourgeoise order in favor of a new one led by the emancipated and morally reborn proletariat, imbued with revolutionary zeal and upholding an ethic of nationalism, tradition, productivity, action, heroism and purity.

French national syndicalism was the most leftist-oriented among the ideology's manifestations across the world (being more authentically File:Soc.png socialist than its corporatist-friendly analogues from Italy and Iberia), but it also laid the ideological groundwork for the nascent French fascism.

Portuguese National Syndicalism

The Order of Christ Cross, used as the symbol of the National Syndicalist Movement

National Syndicalism in Portugal was characterized by the condemnation of the totalitarianism present in German and Italian societies during the 1930s, its leader, Francisco Rolão Preto, declared during a banquet that the National Syndicalist Movement was "beyond democracy, fascism and communism". The National Syndicalist Movement had a strong Catholic inspiration, with the Order of Christ Cross being their symbol, they were very popular among university students and young soldiers. It endorsed Catholic social teaching, Christian personalism, integralism, municipalism and a restoration of the traditional monarchy and were opposed to communism and capitalism. Its members were also known as the Blueshirts, as they used blue shirts as uniforms.

Its leader, Francisco Rolão Preto declared on an interview to the United Press that:

"Fascism and Hitlerism are totalitarian, divinizers of the state and caesarists: we pretend to find in the Christian tradition of the Portuguese people the formula that allows the harmonization of the sovereignty of the national interest with the moral dignity of free men."

He criticized the Estado Novo for adopting a single-party system typical of fascism, which he hated, due to this criticism, the national syndicalist journal 'Revolução!' was suspended on 24 July. On November of the same year, the national syndicalists split, the majority decided to support Salazar and integrate the party with the União Nacional, abandoning the principles of partisan independence defended by Rolão Preto and Alberto Monsaraz.

On 10 July 1934, Rolão Preto was arrested and subsequently exiled and on 29 July of the same year, national syndicalism was forbidden by the Salazarists.

Spanish National Syndicalism

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Italian National Syndicalism

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How to Draw

Cercle Proudhon Eagle design

Draw a ball.
Fill the ball with black.
Draw the Cercle Proudhon eagle in red.
Draw the eyes and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#141414	20, 20, 20
	Red	#FF0000	255, 0, 0

Portuguese design

Flag of National Syndicalism (Portuguese version)

Draw a ball
Color it blue
In the center, draw a white circle
In the circle, draw a red outline of a cross
Add the eyes and you're done

	HEX	RGB
Blue	#00309A	0, 48, 154
White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255
Red	#D72821	215, 40, 33

JONS design

Flag of National Syndicalism (JONS version)

Draw a ball
Fill it black
Draw 8 red spokes
Draw a black circle in the middle
Draw a white claw
Add the eyes

	HEX	RGB
Black	#141414	20, 20, 20
Red	#DB0A13	219, 10, 19
White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255

Relations

Friends

Mutualism - I owe most of my inspiration to you! W~~ait why are you looking at me weird.~~
Falangism - My Spanish son.
British Fascism - My British incarnation.
Yellow Socialism - Syndicalist and Nationalist? Based!
Monarcho-Syndicalism - Tradition and Syndicalism? Mega Based!

Frenemies

National Anarchism - Love ya bud, but please get a state.
Francoism - You abandoned national syndicalism for him
Anarcho-Syndicalism - Degenerate anarchist progressive, but somewhat based economics. I wish the economics were a bit less left wing, though.
French Fascism - I thought he would follow my ideology but he betrayed France.
Marxism–Leninism - You have some good ideas but I am not Nazi.
National Bolshevism - Too much left-wing economically, syndicates should still have an important role in the national economy, but still overall decent.
Strasserism - Too much reactionary and racialist socially, plus you're associated with him , but you are still better than him.

Enemies

Capitalism - Dehumanizing and wasteful system!
Neoliberalism - Your economic and social policy are revolting.
National Socialism- He invaded France & put racialism over syndicalist ideals.
Neoconservatism - Fake conservative, he leaves economic disasters wherever he goes.
Stransserism and Homonationalism - Intolerable degenerates.