Alexander Raven Thomson (1899-1955) (known usually as simply Raven) was a leading figure in the British Union of Fascists and was considered to be the party's chief ideologue. 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ... An ideology is an organized collection of ideas. ...

Born in Scotland, Thomson was educated in universities in his homeland, the United States and Germany, studying philosophy. He became a leading authority on the works of Oswald Spengler and in 1932 published the book Civilization as Divine Superman, which rejected Spengler's theories about the decline of civilization, arguing that it could be avoided by the rejection of Capitalism and its replacement with collectivism. Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... The Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. ... Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (Blankenburg am Harz May 29, 1880 – May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German historian and philosopher, although his studies ranged throughout mathematics, science, philosophy, history, and art. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Capitalism is commonly understood to mean an economic or socioeconomic system in which the means of production are predominantly privately owned and operated for profit, often through the employment of labour. ... Collectivism is a term used to describe any doctrine that stresses the importance of a collective, rather than the importance of the individual. ...

Thomson political career, unsurprisingly given his written work, began with him joining the Communist Party of Great Britain, although his membership did not last long as he rejected notions of Historical materialism and saw himself move more towards corporatism. The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist party in the United Kingdom. ... Historical materialism (or what Marx himself called the materialist conception of history - materialistische Geschichtsauffassung) is a social theory and an approach to the study of history and sociology, normally considered the intellectual basis of Marxism. ... Historically, corporatism or corporativism (Italian corporativismo) is a political system in which legislative power is given to civic assemblies that represent economic, industrial, agrarian, and professional groups. ...

He joined the British Union of Fascists in 1933 and soon rose to the post of Director of Policy, from where he became the leading ideological light in the party and a close associate of Oswald Mosley and Neil Francis Hawkins. Whilst in this position he produced his seminal work The Coming Corporate State (1938), in which he set out the vision of a BUF government in Britain. Thomson envisaged the formation of twenty corporations, each controlling a specific sector of the economy. These corporations would be further divided up to cover each individual industry and would also feed into a National Corporation, which would effectively form the government. Corporations would have equal representation for employers, workers and consumers, with elections to the corporations taking the place of existing political activity. The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980) was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A corporation is a legal person that exists quite separately from the natural persons who work with and for it. ...

Thomson became a leading figure in the BUF and in 1937 he represented the party in Municipal elections in Bethnal Green (SW), winning 23.17% of the votes and finishing ahead of the Liberal candidates. Although he was not elected, the result marked a good total for the BUF. His status in the party now assured, Thomson became editor of the party weekly, Action, in 1939. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bethnal Green is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the heart of Londons East End. ... The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party (the SDP) to form a new party which would become... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Along with most of the leading members of the BUF, Thomson was detained under Defence Regulation 18B in May 1940 and interned for much of the Second World War. He spent his entire jail spell in Brixton Prison, rather than the generally more favourable prison camp on the Isle of Man, until his release in 1944. Defence Regulation 18B was the most famous of the Defence Regulations used by the British Government during World War II. It allowed for the internment of people suspected of being Nazi sympathisers. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...

Following his release Thomson set up a number of book clubs across Britain to ensure the continuing spread of Mosley's ideas. He joined the Union Movement on its foundation in 1948 and became a leading figure in the new party as both General Secretary and the editor of the UM newspaper Union. Thomson continued to serve as leading UM figure until his death in 1955 from cancer. The Union Movement was an extreme right wing political party founded in Britain by Oswald Mosley. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ...