FTR #633 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Muslim Brotherhood-Al-Taqwa link to Berlusconi; Eliot Spitzer scandal viewed in comparison to Palfrey murder case; pan-Turkist movement link to shooting of the pope.
Commentary: The Winds of Fascism Blowing Across Europe
by Gaither Stewart ONLINE JOURNAL ROME — I feel sick. She says I’m sick in the head. Actually I’m sick in the heart, sick in my viscera. My head reels, I feel chronic vertigo. She says it’s only paranoia. I tell her the old Polish joke popular during the military regime. He constantly felt spied […]
Neo-Nazi killing puts spotlight on Italian militants
by Phil Stewart ROME, May 5 (REUTERS) — The death on Monday of a man attacked by neo-Nazis threw the spotlight on political militancy in Italy, prompting the opposition to ask if a right-wing sweep at an April election had fed a climate of intolerance. The victim, 29-year-old Nicola Tommasoli, finally succumbed to his injuries […]
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience
Attempt by fascist ideologists and political groups to use ecology in the service of social reaction.
FTR #629 It’s Not Easy Being Green, Part II: “Ecofascism”
Recorded March 16, 2008 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Supplementing information presented in FTR#628, the broadcast highlights the “green wing” of the German Nazi Party under Hitler, noting the movement’s pre-Nazi antecedents in German ecological thinking, as well as its influence on some elements of the contemporary green movement. Among the antecedents of […]
FTR #628 It’s Not Easy Being Green: Nazi infiltration and Co-option of the Green Party
Recorded March 9, 2008 MP3: 30-Minute Segment REALAUDIO NB: This RealAudio stream contains both FTR #627 and FTR #628 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broadcast. “Green” politics has become an important part of the political scene, assuming a pivotal position in the progressive community. This broadcast highlights Nazi and fascist infiltration and co-option […]
Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents
Excerpt fromEcofascism: Lessons from the German Experienceby Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier1995, AK PressISBN 1–873176 73 2 pp 4–12 “We recognize that separating humanity from nature, from the whole of life, leads to humankind’s own destruction and to the death of nations. Only through a reintegration of humanity into the whole of nature can our […]
The Youth Movement and the Weimar Era
Excerpt fromEcofascism: Lessons from the German Experienceby Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier1995, AK PressISBN 1–873176 73 2 pp 13–17 [...] In addition to the youth movement and protofascist philosophies, there were, of course, practical efforts at protecting natural habitats during the Weimar period. Many of these projects were profoundly implicated in the ideology which culminated […]
Rudolf Bahro: Volkisch Spirituality
Excerpt fromEcofascism: Lessons from the German Experienceby Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier1995, AK PressISBN 1–873176 73 2 pp 48–50 Rudolf Bahro: Volkisch Spirituality If fascists are using ecological themes to update their racial and nationalist aims, other thinkers are developing an ecological spiritualism along New Age lines that bears no small resemblance to the völkisch […]
Liberating the ‘Brown Parts’
Excerpt fromEcofascism: Lessons from the German Experienceby Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier1995, AK PressISBN 1–873176 73 2 pp 50–53 Liberating the ‘Brown Parts’ Since the mid-1980s, Bahro has been remarkably open about proclaiming his embrace of the spiritual content of fascism for the ‘salvation’ of nature and humanity. In The Logic of Salvation, he asks, […]
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