Jean-François Thiriart
Jean-François Thiriart | |
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| Born | 22 March 1922 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 23 November 1992 |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | Political theorist |
| Known for | his national bolshevik ideology, serving in the SS and being the founder of Jeune Europe |
Jean-François Thiriart (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa tiʁjaʁ]; 22 March 1922, Brussels – 23 November 1992), often known as Jean Thiriart, was a Belgian far-right political theorist.
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Coming from a left-wing background, during the Second World War he was a collaborator with the Nazi Third Reich, as a result of which he served a prison sentence. In the 1960s, he founded and directed the transnational Jeune Europe (Young Europe) movement. He was the theorist of European national communism, a synthesis of revolutionary nationalism and Pan-European nationalism, a form of revolutionary nationalism transposed up to the scale of Europe as a unitary state.