mainstream neo-fascism became environmentalism

By William Walter Kay

Circa 1941, from Moscow’s gates to Dover’s cliffs, from Norway’s northern fjords to Sicily’s southern shores, Europa groaned beneath fascist dictators. Several million Europeans brandished fascist party membership cards. Five years later – not so many. Nonetheless, a political movement of this scale disappears neither quickly nor quietly. Western Europe witnessed neither a great purge of fascists nor a long overdue attainder of fascism’s social base.
Thus, under cover of the Cold War fog, the fascist movement reconstituted itself, albeit bowed and broken. The main fracture separated a minority addicted to pre-1945 symbols and rhetoric (swastikas, crude anti-Semitism, etc.) from a majority advocating a major makeover. Mainstream neo-fascism became environmentalism.
Circa 1941 anyone actively opposing the “Jewish world conspiracy” was a fascist. Circa 2013 anyone actively opposing the “global ecological crisis” is a fascist. Big Lies give coherence and direction to quasi-religious armies of reason-resistant zombies. Over its meagre 140 pages, Ecofascism Revisited cries “ecological crisis” (or “environmental destruction” or “finishing off the planet”) over 40 times. The existence of this crisis is deemed “uncontestable.” The vast counter-movement of enviro-skeptics merits no mention.
Ecofascism Revisited is thus ecofascist propaganda. Espousal of anti-capitalism hardly rescues the book given that every fascist party in Europe espoused anti-capitalism. Nor is the book rescued by its exposure of the many nests of unreconstructed Nazis (vulgar racists, outspoken authoritarians, etc.) within the environmental movement, given that driving these ogres out of the movement has been a primary goal of the ‘Neo-fascist Internationale’ since 1946.

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