National Syndicalism

National Syndicalist student graphic featuring Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera.

National Syndicalism is an anti-communist economically left, authoritarian and culturally right ideology, based upon the beliefs and thinking of Georges Sorel, so it overlaps with Sorelism. It opposes the bourgeoisie, liberal democracy and secularism. At times, it has advocated against democracy more generally, whereas at others it has supported Democratic Socialism within the workplace.

Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera has been its historical main representative, though the Strasser brothers also play a prominent role, as the ideology often overlaps with Sansepolcrism, Sorelism, Strasserism, National Bolshevism and, more recently, Eurasianism.

It's currently endorsed by many smaller organizations, the most prominent of which is likely the Socjalna Fala, a National Syndicalist/Strasserist faction of the wider ONR political grouping in Poland. There are also many organizations which claim to be the successors of the Spanish Falange.

Significant Figures

• Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
• Gregor Strasser
• George Sorel
• Charles Maurras

Others

These figures are considered ideological cornerstones only by factions of the wider National Syndicalist movement. This section also includes those i fkue ced by Natii al Syndicalism, and those who have influenced the ideology in some way.

• Eduard Limonov
• Alexander Dugin
• Winston Churchill
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini
• Joseph Stalin
• Kim Il Sung
• Mao Zedong
• Franco Freda
• Antonio Salazar

Controversies

Bolshevism is at heart a materialistic attitude towards the world. Bolshevism may be able to resign itself to failure in its attempts at collectivized farming, but it will never make concessions in that which of paramount importance: the uprooting of all religion from the people, the destruction of the familly cell, the materialization of existence. He who starts from a merely economic interpretation of history is on the way towards Bolshevism. Hence anti-Bolshevism is exactly the position of those who regard the world beneath the sign of spiritual things.
—Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, José Antonio Primo de Rivera: Anthology of Speeches and Quotes

National Syndacalists are often erroneously declared Communists, despite being largely Anti-Communists and closer to Fascism than to mainstream Syndicalism; this however is marked by notable exceptions, such as with National Bolsheviks.