While Nazism originated from several right-wing movements and its self branding as National Socialism was largely an attempt to redefine the term »socialism« to take some power from the left-wing, early on it did encompass conservative and radical factions. The conservative faction, which was always the larger of the two and did eventually come to embody the Party as a whole, favoured making concessions to the capitalist and reactonary factions of the Weimar period. The radicals, which did make up a still significant number prior to being largely purged or marginalised following the Party's rise to power, were largely supportive of the Nazi Party's claim to being the »Third Way« in defiance of both the left-wing and right. This entailed a largely socialist and anti-capitalist program, viewing capitalism to be an irredeemably Jewish institution. In fact early on these views were the official position of the NSDAP. Hitler himself took a middle position between the two, allowing private property only if it continued to support the goals of the State. The purge of the radicals largely occured not because of the Nazi leadership disavowing Socialism (as they defined it) but rather because they viewed the radical faction, in particular Ernst Röhm's Sturmabteilung, as a possible threat to Hitler's authority, as they began to purge what they viewed as reactionary opposition without any actual authorisation, as well as due to their actions alienating the largely conservative German government, the army in particular. Other prominent radicals included Otto Strasser, Joseph Goebbels and Gregor Strasser. Indeed, the radical faction's position was known as Strasserism, after the brothers who founded it. Strasserism was not necessarily left-wing, but it did share a number of characteristics often seen as endemic to the Left, such as class-conflict, an opposition to finance capitalism and mass-action. It did retain much of what came to be the defining aspects on Nazism, in particular ultranationalism, anti-Semitism and the concept of a national rebirth.