Editing National Anarchism (section)

==History==
National Anarchism has its origins in the Romantic Nationalism of the 18th century, when different peoples were fighting to assert their independence amidst the consolidation of nation-states and empires in Europe, and in particular the Völkisch movement of Germany, which encouraged a return to rural life and veneration of the ancient gods of the Germans. 

'Nationalanarchismus' was coined by the German Conservative Helmut Franke, and it is within the Conservative Revolutionary sphere that much of the philosophy that National Anarchists inherited was developed, especially by Ernst Jünger, a German soldier and writer who had fought in the Great War. The Italian esotericist and traditionalist Julius Evola is also cited as an influence on National Anarchism from this period, and his philosophy has also influenced the wider European New Right current in the postwar era. 

In the late 1980s, National Anarchist ideology began to crystallise with the establishment of the National Revolutionary Faction by Troy Southgate, a former 'Black Front' Strasserist and member of the International Third Position and the British National Front. Separately, an obscure group known as the Black Rams espoused an ideology known as 'Anarcho-Nationalism'. 

The National Revolutionary Faction received support from Richard Hunt, an Alternative Green Anarchist who had formerly been at the forefront of developing the philosophy of the ''Green Anarchist'' zine before leaving the Eco-Anarchist mainstream over differences of opinion over his position on Nationalism. Ted Kaczynski and his critical assessment of civilisation, society, technology, and its impact on nature is also widely accepted among National Anarchists. 

The NRF stood as a predecessor to the National Anarchist Movement, and this revolutionary vanguard soon became defunct as the movement expanded online through the Thule Seminar, the ''Cercle de la Rose Noire'' journal, and other closely-affiliated forums and sites. The National Anarchist Movement has led to the creation of other movements in North America, such as the Bay Area National Anarchists led by A. Yeoman, an Australian movement led by W. Herfurth, and a Belgian National Anarchist Movement, as well as countless other groups whose names remain obscure.