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(I always had a feeling that the hippies were Nazis. and the Nazis were hippies…..)
German far-right extremists tap into green movement for support
By Kate Connolly, The Guardian
Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:23 EDTGerman consumers are being warned that when they buy organic produce they may be supporting the far-right movement, following the revelation that rightwing extremists in Germany have embraced the ecological movement and are using it to tap into a new generation of supporters.
Debunking the popular view that equates eco-friendliness with cuddly,left-leaning greens, rightwing extremists have even begun to publish their own conservation magazine, which is believed to have the backing
of the far-right National Democratic party (NPD). Alongside gardening tips and reports on the dangers of genetically modified milk are articles riddled with rightwing ideology and racial slurs. Bavaria’s
domestic intelligence agency has described the magazine, Umwelt und Aktiv (Environment and Active), as a “camouflage publication” for the NPD.“We have to get used to the fact that the term ‘bio’ [organic] does not automatically mean equality and human dignity,” said Gudrun Heinrich of the University of Rostock, who has just published a study on the topic called Brown Ecologists, a reference to the Nazi Brownshirts and their modern-day admirers.
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The department of rural enlightenment in the state of Rheinland Pfalz has even produced a brochure called Nature Conservation versus Rightwing Extremism, which aims to help organic farmers resist the infiltration of fascists into their ranks and to be able to respond to any far-righters they might encounter. Its author, historian Nils Franke, said: “Because of the success of the eco topic in the wider society, the NPD has a heightened interest in wanting to fly the flag with it.”
Damn. I had no idea that by growing my own organic food, and by buying organic food at the co-op, I have been unknowingly facilitating the neo-nazis. Shit. I must be a nazi too.
What have we learned today boys and girls? That people that buy or grow “organic” food are nazis. These people must be Nuremburged, stat! We cannot allow Monsanto, Cargill, or the central banks to be threatened by these fucking dirty hippies. Just buy your fucking poisonous groceries and shut the fuck up…or we’ll send you to the Hague.
I cannot stop laughing at the insanity of it all…………………………..
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Well, Hitler WAS a vegetarian. He was also a fervent nonsmoker and a teetotaler to boot.
A man with no vices, unlike those liquor-swilling, meat-eating smokers who opposed him, Churchill and Roosevelt.
Just goes to show that anyone who doesn’t eat meat and doesn’t smoke and doesn’t drink just can’t be trusted.
Indeed. I was a vegetarian for almost a decade…..and I lost all trust in myself.
Hell, the German Greens and the German far right have always had lots of intersection points. The German right wing is like the American right wing in that it likes to sell a largely fictional image of days gone by when all the folks were rural and white and didn’t need to lock their doors; the main difference is that the German right wing is (scarily enough) better than our right wing in that it actually makes gestures to greenness, whereas our wingnuts are still running around saying that Al Gore is fat.
Hey PW, I read that article you linked to at Deutsche-Welle: And what a great laugh that was as well! Thanks for that. Here are a couple of beauties:
“The environmental ministry of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate hired him to produce an informational pamphlet debunking many of the extremists’ lines of reasoning.
The pamphlet examines nearly every facet of the Nazi-green connection, including overpopulation, resistance against genetically modified organisms and endangered species protection
For example, it reveals certain activist rhetoric against overpopulation as being based on a definition of a pure German race.
The plight of endangered species is used to illustrate alleged threats to racial purity
Neo-Nazi environmental activists “certainly do something for the environment, but their intention is not democratic.
Wichmann recounted how some former neo-Nazis first got involved in the scene through activities such as trash-gathering hikes.”
This shit is pathetic. If you are going to produce propaganda, at least hire a decent writer.
Shit. We just finished a community beach trash cleanup here on our beautiful island- we must be nazis.
Nazi smatzi…..
Left, right, it’s all about the food baby who gives a flying fickle finger of fate about the politics of it.
LOVE the opening comment . . . I got all Guthrie’d reading it.
“East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other.” – Dr. No
Yes, in fact the Green Party movement’s raison d etre is premised on white, middle-class environmental concerns.
How are they platformed wrt minourities, labour, working class and unions? How much work and coalition building have they done within these constituencies in the US?
This same point in the guardian has been raised recently on the Lenin’s Tomb blog, wrt the Green Candidate for London mayor, whose obvious bourgeois tendencies appear to be offend Seymour and company. They term the Greens a “center-right” phenomenon.
Ironically, what so many Green supporters term Obama.
I say probably centrist on both counts.
This has been my impression to the Greens for a long time. A group of bourgeois white folks who want to feel good about being bourgeois. With their Green McMansions and Green BMWs and Green Vacations…etc.
Heh. I fooled the fuckers. I purchased Nazi-Free heirloom seeds online.
They come from Fukushima; ya figure they’re okay, don’t ya?
I live out in the boonies, practicing permaculture, raising my own chickens and goats. Most of the people I know here do the same, but there are those who are very much like what you have described. As a matter of fact, these people also seem to be infected with a certain “greener-than-thou” attitude. Like they are more green than me because they drive a Prius, and I drive an old VW Vanagon. These people also tend to be very active in the county government and donate money to local green NGOs- NGOs that do tend towards a kind of eco-fascist ideology. Especially the NIMBY crowd- like people that live in large log cabin homes that froth at the mouth when I cut down a diseased tree.
HAHAHAHA Good for you. And I had a Vanagon that I just loved until the engine blew up.
A lesson for me here, as a vegetarian, nonsmoker, and
teetotaler, is that lifestyle choices can make very strange
bedfellows!
Another is that viewpoints can change, sometimes
disastrously. Thus it is reported that Robespierre once
resigned as a judge rather than pass a death sentence –
for me, one definition of the essence of virtue — but
later argued for making an “exception” in the case of Louis
Capet (a revolutionary way of referring to him so as to
bring him down in status to that of the 99%), an exception
which led to uncounted thousands more, ultimately including
Robespierre himself. And Tom Paine, who favored the trial
of Louis XVI but just as ardently opposed his execution as
unbecoming a republic (like any execution), almost became
another of those exceptions — except that, fortuitously
and also fortunately, the person responsible for marking
the door of his cell got it wrong, sparing him from the
guillotine.
Of course, the best solution is to realize that some tastes
can span lots of political lines, and assess each case on
its own merits. It’s curious, by the way, that a story
about the Iowa campaign leading up to 2008 introduced me to
arugula, now one of my staples!
The entire third party protest movement falls into this easy, leftier than thou, “can’t you see what an idiot you are for not splintering into an ever smaller less appealing niche” train of thought. It is the very opposite of coalition building, a form of rugged individualism cleansed of manliness, of course, but ultimately self-defeating when applied to electoral politics.