Not to disparage environmentalists all together but there seems to be underlying things that aren't quite fascist, but close---usually under the guise of "overpopulation" complaints (will they boycott their friend's baby shower? Doubt it. But they like the abstract notion that if dumb poor folks stop fucking, then all will be well)
Then there is the nationalist feeling that those dang dirty 'developing' nations are rootin' tootin' pollutin'...
---- amadeus amadeus <amadeus482000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
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