Ernst Niekisch was a prominent German exponent of National Bolshevism. Born in Trebnitz (Silesia), and brought up in Nördlingen, he became a school teacher by profession. He joined the SPD in 1917 and was instrumental in the setting up of a short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. He left the SPD soon after and joined the USPD for a time, before returning. During the 1920s he stressed the importance of nationalism and attempted to turn the SPD in that direction. Wikipedia
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