Many political parties in various contexts have referred to themselves as National Socialist parties. Because there is no clear definition of national socialism, the term has been used to mean very different things. Since the rise of German Nazism, which called itself "National Socialism", the term has been used in Europe and North America almost exclusively by political parties with racial nationalist views. Since the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and particularly since World War II, the term National Socialism almost always refers to Nazism and, in particular, the Nazi Party as well as derivatives such as modern neo-Nazism. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Racism is the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior or inferior to members of other races. ... Eugène Delacroixs Liberty Leading the People, symbolising French nationalism during the July Revolution 1830. ...

However, in other parts of the world, which had little contact with German Nazism, the term "National Socialism" is sometimes used by parties that define themselves as socialist and patriotic, without being racist. In addition, the term was also used by non-racist groups in Europe before the rise of Nazism.

Parties that existed before the rise of Nazism

• Parti Socialiste National, in France, founded by Pierre Biétry in 1903. It became the "Fédération Nationale des Jaunes de France" (or the "Yellow socialists") in 1904.
• Czech National Social Party, founded in 1898
• National-Social Association, founded in 1896
• National Socialist Party (UK),1916 to 1919
• National Socialist Party (Philippines) (Aguinaldo), founded 1930
• Austrian National Socialism

Yellow socialism was the name applied to a form of revisionist socialism which became prominent in the early twentieth century prior to World War I, as an alternative to Marxism (sometimes called red socialism). Yellow socialists rejected class struggle, the general strike and revolutionary socialism in general. ... Logo of the Czech National Social Party The Czech National Social Party (Czech: Česká strana národně sociální, 1898 - 1918), Czech Socialist Party (Česká strana socialistická, 1918 - 1919), Czechoslovak Socialist Party (Československá strana socialistická, 1919 - 1926), Czechoslovak National Socialist Party (1926 - 1948), Czechoslavak Socialist Party (Československá strana socialistická, 1948... In the second half of the 19th century Germany underwent a rapid industrialization, which was connected with rising social problems. ... The National Socialist Party was a small political party in Britain, founded in 1916. ... Austrian National Socialism was a Pan-Germanic movement that was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. ...

Nazi parties

• Britain First Party
• Canadian National Socialist Unity Party (Canada)
• Hungarian National Socialist Party (one of several such groups, 1920s-40s)
• Iranian National Socialist Party (est. 1952)
• Libertarian National Socialist Green Party (United States)
• National Social Front (Italy)
• National Socialist Action Party (United Kingdom, est. 1982)
• National Socialist Dutch Workers Party
• National Socialist German Workers Party (Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party)
• National Socialist Japanese Workers and Welfare Party
• National Socialist League (United Kingdom, est. 1937)
• National Socialist Party (Greece) (Greece, est. 1932)
• National Socialist Party of New Zealand
• National Socialist Vanguard (United States)
• National Socialist Workers Party (Sweden)
• Russian National Socialist Party
• National Socialist League (Japan)
• National Socialism Association (Taiwan) (Taiwan, Sep 2006)
• Socialist Reich Party
• Sudeten German National Socialist Party

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Non-European parties unrelated to the Nazis

• National Socialist Council of Nagaland, * National Socialist Party of Tripura, Indian
• Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (National Socialist Party), Bangladesh
• National Socialist Party, Jordan
• Syrian Social Nationalist Party, Syria

National Socialist Party of Tripura, political party in the Indian state of Tripura. ... The Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (Peoples Socialist Party) was a 1972 coalition of socialist political activists and military officers in Bangladesh. ... SSNP flag The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) is a nationalist political party in Syria and Lebanon. ...

See also

• Neo-Nazism
• National Socialist Movement (disambiguation)

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