National socialism

National socialism may refer to:

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• Nazism, the political ideology of the German Nazi Party of the 1930s to 1940s. Since World War II, the term "National Socialism" (capitalized) almost always has referred to German Nazism, in the context of Western political or history discussions. It has also been adopted or applied to the ideology of descendent groups, generally refferred to as Neo-Nazism. Its application to socialist or anarchist groups, however, is considered pejorative.
• In Austria-Hungary (May 1918), the Austrian Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (D.A.P.) changed its name to the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (D.N.S.A.P.). See Austrian National Socialism.
• The Sudeten German National Socialist Party was formed by members of the DAP as a result of the break up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
• The Czech National Socialist Party (later the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party) was founded in 1898 and was a moderate, liberal, nationalist party. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš was its vice-chairman until he resigned to become a non-partisan president.
• For other parties of various ideologies that have used the term national socialist in their name see this list of national socialist parties.
• In the mid-to-late 1920s the term national socialism was occasionally used by Trotsky as an epithet to describe Stalin's and Bukharin's theory of socialism in one country. Use of the term was not meant as an allusion to German national socialism, though there are obvious similarities.