[lbo-talk] the Green Nazi platform

[amadeus amadeus]

What's perhaps most disturbing is that this seems to
come as a shock, which hopefully isn't an indication
about what the "green" left is prone to. About 6 years
or so there was a piece about this in Z Magazine that
was kind of brilliant, if I remember it correctly:
You're told to imagine a utopian society where
everyone respects the land, etc., and you start to
feel all warm and fuzzy. Then you're informed that
everything you've just read was part of the programme
of the NSDAP. It mentions that the national socialists
in Germany were the first, among other things, to set
aside forest preserves. I think this serves as a
reminder that any movement or party can be prone to
fascism, even Greens. And it's kind of what makes me
balk when people cluck incoherently about Bush being
the new Hitler, etc., etc.
--adx 

--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> In terms of "greenwashing" the revolution, it should
> be remembered that
> Hitler was a dog-loving, vegetarian,
> "socialist"--Mussolini-esque
> thinking  kind of guy.
> 
> Notice the lack of anything to do with the abolition
> of wage-labour,
> democratic self-mangement of production, production
> for use and need
> determined by the democractically constituted
> producer/consumer
> associations. In other words, notice how this
> fascist system is a kind
> of greenwashed version of reformed wage-slavery with
> a racist twist.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike B)
> 
> 
>
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