Was ist ein Konservative Revolution?

Was ist ein Konservative Revolution?

If conservative essayists of the Weimar Republic like Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Hugo von Hofmannsthal or Edgar Jung had already described their political project as a Konservative Revolution (“Conservative Revolution”), the name saw a revival after the 1949 doctoral thesis of Neue Rechte philosopher Armin Mohler on the movement.

When did the Conservative Revolution start?

The contemporary concept of a “Conservative Revolution” was retrospectively reconstructed after WWII by Neue Richt philosopher Armin Mohler in his 1949 doctoral thesis Die Konservative Revolution in Deutschland 1918–1932, written under the supervision of Karl Jaspers.

What is German conservative revolutionary movement?

The German conservative revolutionary movement (German: Konservative Revolution, lit. ‘Conservative Revolution’) was a German national conservative movement, prominent in the years following World War I.

Are Conservative Revolutionaries the Trotskyites of the German Revolution?

Mohler called Conservative Revolutionaries the ” Trotskyites of the German Revolution”, and his appropriation of the concept has been recurrently accused of being a biased attempt to reconstruct a pre-WWII far-right movement acceptable in a post-fascist Europe, by downplaying the influence some of these thinkers had on the rise of Nazism.