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Ecofascism is a term for
radical environmentalism. When
used critically from an external
source, it often refers to
deep ecology and other
far-left
ecological positions. When
used from within as a self label,
this is generally done by
far right,
third positionist and/or
national socialist groups. In
some ways it is suggestive of how
the extremists of
left right politics are
sometimes seen as closely related
and comparable on alternative
political spectrums.
Extremist environmentalism has
not only been a theme of the
German
Nazi party and the
wagnerian
german romanticism which
predated it, but it is also a key
issue for modern fascist
movements,
nazi.org being an especially
apt example.
When seeking to understand the
environmentalism,
vegetarianism, and
animal rights policies of
nazi and
neo-nazi groups, one must be
aware that these ideas are in no
way divorced from the emphasis on
biology,
eugenics and
social darwinism.
Racial hygiene is seen as
cleansing the
human genetic stock, much as
ecology cleans the environment.
All of these concepts have a
common thread, emphasising the
importance of
nature, and mans duty to
behave as steward.
For some, cries from the left
for regulation of human
reproduction and reduction of the
world population are suggestive of
similar anti-humanist
Nazi policies. The percieved
similarities do not end there, and
encompass
new age /
nazi mysticism,
neopaganism /
Asatru comparisons, as well as
a lack of emphasis on the value of
human life.
Quotes
- "We recognize that
separating humanity from nature,
from the whole of life, leads to
humankind’s own destruction and
to the death of nations. Only
through a re-integration of
humanity into the whole of
nature can our people be made
stronger. That is the
fundamental point of the
biological tasks of our age.
Humankind alone is no longer the
focus of thought, but rather
life as a whole . . . This
striving toward connectedness
with the totality of life, with
nature itself, a nature into
which we are born, this is the
deepest meaning and the true
essence of National Socialist
thought."
-
-
Ernst Lehmann,
Biologischer Wille. Wege und
Ziele biologischer Arbeit im
neuen Reich, München, 1934
- "Members of today's Green
parties in Europe seem to view
their environmentalism as
separate from Nazi ideology.
This is a dangerous mistake. The
importance of Nature in Nazi
ideology had real consequences:
it led to breaking up estates
and holdings across Germany to
make organic farms. Hitler's and
Hess's vegetarianism followed a
devotion to purity and a horror
of pollution that paralleled
their thinking about race,
eugenics, and ultimately, their
actions in the Holocaust … The
acceptance today … of starvation
for peoples of developing
countries to preserve
environmental purity over
acceptance of genetic veggies is
not far removed from the claim,
then, that racial and
environmental purity must
triumph over the needs of poor,
non-German citizens."
-
-
Gregory Pence - Designer
Food: Mutant Harvest or
Breadbasket of the World
- "If radical
environmentalists were to invent
a disease to bring human
populations back to sanity, it
would probably be something like
AIDS."
-
-
Earth First! Newsletter
- "We have wished, we
ecofreaks, for a disaster or for
a social change to come and bomb
us into Stone Age, where we
might live like Indians in our
valley, with our
localism, our appropriate
technology, our gardens, our
homemade religion -- guilt-free
at last!"
-
-
Stewart Brand
Whole Earth Catalogue
