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.

Ideological Beliefs

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.
—Gregor Strasser, Wars, Revolutions, Dictatorships by Stanislav Andreski

National Syndicalist fundamentally believe in a strong, fascist worker's state. they support either Socialism or some form of Corporatism.

Their beliefs are closely linked to Fascism.

Organizations

Revolutionary syndicalism keeps alive the desire to strike in the masses and only prospers when important strikes, accompanied by violence, take place.
—Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence (pg. 39)

Significant Figures

Mussolini is not an ordinary socialist. You will perhaps see him one day as a leader of a consecrated battalion, saluting the flags of Italy with his sword. He is an Italian of the fifteenth century, a condottiere. He is the only man with the strength to correct the weakness of the government.
—George Sorel, The Genesis of Georges Sorel by James H. Meisel

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

Others

Most of these figures are considered ideological cornerstones only by smaller factions of the wider National Syndicalist movement. This section also includes those influenced by National Syndicalism, and those who have influenced the ideology in some way.

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

More recently, many National Syndacalists have sided with Russia following the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, supporting Eurasianist and Duginist beliefs, often exhibiting Sinophile beliefs as well. This has led some to embrace Eastern Orthodoxy and Anti-Fascism.