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Third Position Ideology
As per Wikipedia,
Third Position is a revolutionary nationalist political ideology that emphasizes its opposition to both communism and capitalism. Advocates of Third Position politics present themselves as "neither left nor right", instead combining ideas from both. Third Positionists tend to defend the interests of the "productive" working class, seek alliances with separatists of ethnicity other than their own to achieve "separate but equal" ethnic segregation, support national liberation movements in the least developed countries, and have recently embraced neopaganism and environmentalism.[1]
Scholars, such as Roger Griffin, view Third Positionism as a minor branch of fascism, which rejects both Marxism and liberalism for a form of racial socialism or, more precisely, an ideology which combines a tribal form of racial nationalism with a corporatist, distributist or solidarist economic system. The main precursors of Third Position politics are National Bolshevism, a synthesis of nationalism and Bolshevik communism, and Strasserism, a radical, mass-action and worker-based form of Nazism.[1]
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There's more that can be cut and pasted but I think this suffices to start a discussion rolling.What is Third Positionism?
The term “Third Positionist” has been used quite a few times on this website, and while I understand what it means intuitively and personally, it has not been explained thoroughly enough for the readers. I will define what I mean when I use the term below.
A Third Positionist is a person who is aware of international forces such as imperialism, Marxist-Leninism and global capitalism, and believes these forces must be kept in check to enable nationalism. There are different strategies – National Bolshevism, National Anarchism, State Corporatism, Ba’athism, Progressive Zionism and (unfortunately) Nazism etc., but all are aware of the forces of globalism and not completely subservient to the forces of globalism. Not all nationalists are Third Positionists. A nationalist can be a traditionalist and a conservative who is unaware of or indfferent to the sophisticated issues which I mentioned, and they would not qualify.
Third positionists are not like Marxist-Leninist internationalists in that they usually view political matters as internal and national. Marxists believe in organizing an international Communist Party and using it to take over the world where material conditions enable. Third Positionists often are pan-nationalists who tolerate ideological differentiation to the point where it can co-exist. Marxist-Leninists have a very strict stance on materialism as compared to idealism, but Third Positionists vary depending on the Third Positionist ideology.
Most Third Positionists reject the concepts of “left” and “right” created in American politics as silly and juvenile.
Third Positionists disagree on how they think their revolutions will take place. Just as there are revisionists (not to use the term in a derogatory sense) and literalists in the Marxist world, not all Third Positionists agree on the methods to take power. I believe the entire political system will have be dispensed of but am open to being proved wrong.
Question: Is Third Position Ideology a viable alternative to the current political streams? If so or not so, please indicate why.
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Originally Posted by SwordoftheVistula
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