by Janet Biehl and Peter Stau­den­maier
1995, AK Press
ISBN 1–873176 73 2

The reap­pear­ance of fas­cism in many west­ern coun­tries threat­ens all the free­doms the left move­ments have man­aged to gain over the last half cen­tury. Equally dis­con­cert­ing is the attempt by fas­cist ide­ol­o­gists and polit­i­cal groups to use ecol­ogy in the ser­vice of social reac­tion. This effort is not with­out long his­tor­i­cal roots in Ger­many, both in its nineteenth-century roman­ti­cism and in the Third Reich in the present cen­tury. In order to pre­serve the lib­er­a­tory aspects of ecol­ogy, the authors, as social ecol­o­gists, explore the Ger­man expe­ri­ence of fas­cism and derive from it his­tor­i­cal lessons about the polit­i­cal use of ecol­ogy. Includ­ing two essay—“Fascist Ide­ol­ogy: The Green Wing of the Nazi Party and its His­tor­i­cal Antecedents” and “Ecol­ogy and the Mod­ern­iza­tion of Fas­cism in the Ger­man Ultra-Right,” Eco­fas­cism exam­ines aspects of Ger­man fas­cism, past and present, in order to draw essen­tial lessons from them for ecol­ogy move­ments both in Ger­many and elsewhere.

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