 the conservative revolutionary movement was a german national conservative movement, prominent in the years following the first world war. the conservative revolutionary school of thought advocated a "new" conservatism and nationalism that was specifically german, or prussian in particular. like other conservative movements in the same period, they sought to put a stop to the rising tide of liberalism and communism. ==history==  the conservative revolutionaries based their ideas on organic rather than materialistic thinking, on quality instead of quantity, and on volksgemeinschaft ("folk-community") rather than class conflict and "mob rule". these writers produced a profusion of radical nationalistic literature that consisted of war diaries, combat fictional works, political journalism, manifestos, and philosophical treatises outlining their ideas for the transformation of german cultural and political life. outraged by liberalism and egalitarianism, and rejecting the commercial culture of industrial and urban civilization, they advocated the destruction of the liberal order, by revolutionary means if necessary, in order to make way for the establishment of a new order, founded on conservative principles. the movement had a wide influence among many of germanyâs most gifted youth, universities, and middle classes. the term "conservative revolution" predates the first world war, but the writer hugo von hofmannsthal and the political theorist edgar julius jung were instrumental in making this term an established concept of the weimar period. thomas mann used the term to describe friedrich nietzsche, whose philosophy greatly influenced many of the thinkers associated with the movement.thomas mann: groÃe kommentierte frankfurter ausgabe, frankfurt, 2002, vol. 15, p. 341. initially, arthur moeller van den bruck was the dominant figure of the conservative revolution in the weimar republic.stern, fritz richard, the politics of cultural despair: a study in the rise of the germanic ideology, university of california press, reprint edition (1974), p. 296 rejecting reactionary conservatism, he proposed a new state, a 'third reich' which would unite all classes under authoritarian ruleburleigh, michael, the third reich: a new history, pan macmillan (2001), p. 75 based on a combination of the nationalism of the right and the socialism of the left.redles, david nazi end times; the third reich as a millennial reich in kinane, karolyn & ryan, michael a. (eds), end of days: essays on the apocalypse from antiquity to modernity, mcfarland and co (2009), p. 176 jung promoted a fascist version of conservative revolution from the 1920s to the 1930s, which like fa
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