Cheers, Ken Hanly
Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Michael Hoover wrote:
>
> > Principle exponent of eco-fascism was Walter Darre, Hitler's agricultural
> > minister from 1933-42. Darre's ideas were mixture of Nordic racialism &
> > idealization of rural life: 'Blood & Soil' philosophy that helped Nazis
> > gain support in German countryside. Darre held that Germany's well-
> > being was tied to recreation of peasant society, living close to nature,
> > organic farming.
>
> That's a good point to keep in mind. The voelkish ideology that led to
> Nazism posited a mystical connection between the features of a people and
> the land that gave them birth -- i.e., Germans were deep because they came
> from forests, and Jews were shallow and rootless because they came from
> deserts. It's not organic farming that has a natural affinity with
> Nazism. Rather it's the idea that land determines race, a key voelkish
> idea that was important to both Nazis and organic farming types at the
> time. And this is an idea that's completely missing from modern American
> environmental and vegan consciousness, whatever it's other faults. You
> can say many bad things about Americans and veggies, but our mystical
> attachment to our rural birthplaces is not one of them.
>
> Personally I think I get closer to the Nazis when I stand up for the
> national anthem in a sports stadium.
>
> Michael
>
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