the "radical" wing referred to is i assume the strasserite wing* of the nazi party, which was ostensibly hostile to capitalism and advocated the toppling of business and social elites: part of the (all too successful) purpose of the night of the long knives -- a manifestation of the "very definite struggle: referred to -- for hitler was to purge this wing and make himself more acceptable to orthodox conservatives and business leaders (gregor strasser was murdered in the NofLK) (his brother otto -- arguably more the architect of this line of thinking? -- was more ambivalent abt the party, only joining in 1925 and expelled in 1930, it which point he fled germany for czechoslovakia)
this fragment of US analysis does more or less channel the (wildly mistaken) position that von papen and von hindenberg took in 1933, that they would be the puppetmasters controlling hitler
*(both wings were of course committed to mystical nationalism and anti-semitism; and both wings were violent, too; i suppose you could argue the hitlerite wing was more treacherously effective in this instance, but i don't see that that lets strasserism off the hook)
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link