Editing Pērkonkrusts (section)

== Beliefs ==
Pērkonkrusts has been categorised by scholars as either representing the radical right or fascism. Fascism researcher Roger Griffin describes Pērkonkrusts as having been a "small but genuine fascist opposition" which "pursued a revolutionary solution to the [economic] crisis and which would turn Latvia into an authoritarian state based on a new élite with a new corporatist economy", with its politics defined by "integralist nationalism". Building on Griffin's definition of generic fascism, a categorisation of Pērkonkrusts as "anti-German national socialism" has also been proposed in an article from 2015.

Aside from the party's newspaper, ''Pērkonkrusts'' (1933–34), the main source of information on the political platform of Pērkonkrusts can be found in the 1933 brochure, ''Pērkonkrusts: What Is It? What Does It Want? How Does It Work?'' (Latvian: ''Kas ir? Ko grib? Kā darbojas? Pērkonkrusts''). This publication not only outlined the movement's political programme, but also included the complete party statutes.

With its slogan "Latvia for Latvians! Work and bread for Latvians!" (Latvian: ''Latviju latviešiem! Latviešiem darbu un maizi!''), Pērkonkrusts wished to place all political and economic control of their country exclusively in the hands of ethnic Latvians. As a result, the party rejected the existing legislation that gave national minorities cultural autonomy. Pērkonkrusts aimed its propaganda against minorities who supposedly had taken over the Latvian economy (i.e. Baltic Germans, Jews) and the contemporary parliamentary politicians, whom it accused of corruption.<blockquote>In a Latvian Latvia the question of minorities will not exist. ... This means that once and for all we renounce unreservedly bourgeois-liberal prejudice on the national question, we renounce historical, humanistic, or other constraints in pursuit of our one true aim—the good of the Latvian nation. Our God, our belief, our life's meaning, our goal is the Latvian nation: whoever is against its welfare is our enemy. ...

We assume that the only place in the world where Latvians can settle is Latvia. Other peoples have their own countries. ...

In one word—in a Latvian Latvia there will only be Latvians.</blockquote>— Gustavs Celmiņš, "A Latvian Latvia"

Pērkonkrusts rejected Christianity as a foreign influence and suggested instead adopting Dievturība, which was an attempt to revive an assumed pre-Christian Latvian religion.