The German Workers Party (DAP) was founded in 1919, by Anton Drexler. It lasted only a year until it was succeeded by a new German Workers Party, the NSDAP. But, there was one man in the party who thought the party was changing for the worse. His name, was Gregor Strasser.
You see, the German Workers Party was actually much more of a Socialist party than it was a Nationalist party. The DAP were staunch anti-capitalists, and that was the main focus of the party. They were still very anti-***, but the anti-capitalist aspect was at the fore-front.
The man who forwarded this was Gregor Strasser. He loathed Capitalism, above all else. He knew it was the ***s who were the helmers of this nightmarishly evil ideology, but that wasn't what was most important. It was stopping Capitalism, and replacing it with something else.
And not the brand of Socialism that the NSDAP went with either, no, something more extreme. Gregor Strasser didn't want to implement Socialism, but Collectivization. Collectivization is not a totalitarian ideology like Communism is, but they are very similar.
Strasserism is Collective Nationalism, a somewhat anti-*** ideology founded on the works of Anton Drexler, Gregor Strasser and, most controversially, Karl Marx. It is radically anti-capitalist, and its main goal is eliminating the economic right wherever possible.
It believes in eliminating social classes and economic classes, and, like NS, still has a somewhat Nationalist spirit, except it is much, much more toned down and Collectivization being the main concept and factor here.
As far as Gregor Strasser goes, he later drifted away from the NSDAP and Hitler, as he found they didn't share his views. Their views were similar, but not the same. Later on, Strasser made a rival newspaper to Hitler's causing Goebbels to have an uproar.
Goebbels told Hitler that Strasser was attempting to overtake his position, and wanted to replace NS with a "communist ideology". So, on the Night of Long Knives where many people who were ousted (some like Ernst Röhm, who was ousted for being g*y), Strasser was among them.
Strasser was shot in the stomach, and was left to bleed out painfully for over an hour.

Strasserism is a somewhat obscure ideology, with taking inspiration from all over the place. Nevertheless, with the agonizing death of Gregor Strasser, we will never know if it was workable.
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