Easy to make fun of the premise, but there really is a neofascist wing of the environmental movement.
Check out some of the links on this page from PRA: http://www.publiceye.org/sucker_punch/Right-Wing_Populism.htm
-Chip Berlet
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of ravi Sent: Thu 3/24/2005 2:03 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the Green Nazi platform
Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
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> 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'...
>
ah, guilt by association, innuendo and just plain old leaps of logic. i am from a developing country where there is an environmental movement, and there is a population control movement (initiated among others by the socialist govt), and they are not the same. the latter could be wrong in their assumptions, and perhaps even the former (the environmentalist) -- of course one could not wring such an admission of uncertainty from the *real* leftists. but hey, why deal with the subtleties of these issues, when we can promote infighting with the left? you call me a malthusian. i'll call you a stalinist. fun!
--ravi ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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