Czech National Social Party Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Czech National Social Party (Czech: Česká strana národně sociální, 1897 - 1918), Czechoslovak Socialist Party (1918 - 1926), and Czechoslovak National Socialist Party (since 1926) was a socialist, nationalist party established in 1897 within National Liberal Party as a socialist group with a stress on ethnicity against international Social Democratic party.Ideologically the party had nothing to do with the German variant of National Socialism, particularly since it was formed over 20 years before the German Nazi Party.
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Leadership of the party soon assumed Václav Klofáč. An important role played Jiří Stříbrný; and Emil Franke as well. The party platform rested on the recalled social traditions of Hussitism and Taboritism, but in actual politics it was a programme of "collectivizing by means of development, surmounting of class struggle by national discipline, moral rebirth and democracy as the conditions of socialism, a powerful popular army, etc."
In 1918 the party changed its name from Czech National Social Party to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, and then in 1926 to the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party and Edvard Benes took actual party leadership, although nominally it was his ally Václav Klofáč. Jiří Stříbrný and his friends were expelled.
From 1921, the party was part of most Czechoslovak government coalitions. Its newspaper was the České slovo. In 1938, a part of the Czech membership entered into the Party of National Unity led by Rudolf Beran, while few of its Slovak members joined the Hlinka Slovak People's Party led by Josef Tiso.
Under German occupation it lived in the exile and most of its members where active in the resistance. After 1945, the party resurfaced, again under the leadership of Benes, as one of the parties in the Czech National Front.
After Czechoslovakia became a communist state in 1948, the party was again renamed the Czechoslovak Socialist Party and democrats were expelled.
After the return to democracy in 1989, Czech National Front was abololished. The party renamed itself the Liberal National Social Party (Liberální strana národně sociální), but failed to gather any significant support and was reduced to minor party status. This led in 1995 to a merger with the Free Democrats, to form the Free Democrats-Liberal National Social Party. Now it is not in Parliament.
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