Crack open any book by De Sade and you will read long paens to Nature. He will explain to you how it is natural that the strong should enslave the weak and how it is natural that the strong should act out whatever natural whim presents itself. Most people skip the philosophical parts of his writings, but they present as good a summary of nature-based "fascist" thinking as you can find. He spells out what most green Nazis leave unsaid.
Nature is a good cover for racism -- we'll all be separate but equal -- basing a needless separation among humans on the perception of the natural separation among the species. Nature is a good cover for tyranny, substituting meritocracy for justice and democracy Nature is a good cover for murder, substituting the notion of clean genes or clean blood or whole bodies, for the notion of compassion.
Walk into any yuppie "Whole Foods" kind of store and the air positively stinks of hatred and shame. There's a reason why. I've got three work deadlines facing me or I would explain more about the shame part. Suffice it to say that the psychopathology of fascism is deeply uncomfortable with any shade of gray or any notion of mixing. For more details, check out Reich's "Mass Psychology of Fascism."
Joanna
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>>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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