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Ecofascismo.Pdf La mayoría de libros de Virus editorial se encuentran bajo licencias libres y para su libre descarga; una apuesta por el acceso libre al conocimiento y la cultura, que consideramos imprescindible en una sociedad en la que las desigualdades sociales también se traducen en desigualdad a la hora de acceder a los contenidos culturales. Pero los proyectos autogestionarios y alternativos, como Virus editorial, suelen tener importantes límites económicos, que en ocasiones afectan a su soste- nibilidad o impiden asumir proyectos más costosos o arriesgados. 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Ecologismo fascista: la «rama verde» © 1995 de la obra, Janet Biehl y Peter Staudenmaier © 2019 de esta edición, Virus Editorial del partido nazi y sus antecedentes históricos Peter Staudenmaier 13 Las raíces del movimiento místico Blut und Boden 17 El movimiento juvenil y la era Weimar 23 La naturaleza en la ideología nacionalsocialista 29 Título: La sangre y la tierra como la doctrina oficial 36 Ecofascism Revisited: Lessons from the German Experience (2011) La implementación del programa ecofascista 41 Ecologismo fascista en contexto 46 Edición y maquetación: Virus Editorial Corrección ortotipográfica y de estilo: Paula Monteiro González Traducción del inglés: Paula Martín Ponz La «ecología» y la modernización del fascismo Diseño de colección: Silvio García-Aguirre y Pilar Sánchez Molina Diseño de cubierta: Lídia Sardà y Miquel Costa Reimóndez en la ultraderecha alemana Janet Biehl 51 Primera edición en castellano: marzo de 2019 «Ecología» neofascista 59 Nacionalrevolucionarios 60 ISBN: 978-84-92559-91-6 Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei Depósito legal: B-4839-2019 (Partido Obrero Alemán de la Libertad) 64 Die Republikaner (Los Republicanos) 66 Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Partido Democrático Nacional de Alemania) 67 Deutsche Volksunion (Unión del Pueblo Alemán) 68 Virus Editorial i Distribuïdora, SCCL C/ Junta de Comerç, 18, baixos 08001 Barcelona La antroposofía y la Weltbund Schutz des Lebens T. / Fax: 934 413 814 (Liga Mundial por la Protección de la Vida) 69 [email protected] www.viruseditorial.net Rudolf Bahro: espiritualidad völkisch 79 Liberar las «partes pardas» 87 La «ecología» social darwinista: Herbert Gruhl 95 PrefaciO La ecología social de la libertad 105 A LA SEGUnda EDICIÓN Epílogo a la segunda edición: valoración histórica del ecologismo en la ultraderecha alemana Peter Staudenmaier 109 Del pasado al presente 118 El ecofascismo revisado 130 El linaje del ecologismo de derechas 136 La ecología fascista en la práctica 143 La agricultura orgánica bajo el patrocinio nazi 149 Ecofascismo fue publicado originalmente en 1995, en un mo- Las políticas del suelo y la tierra 157 mento en que los radicales estadounidenses debatían acerca del Agricultura biodinámica y nazismo 163 lugar que debía ocupar la crisis ecológica. ¿Sería tan consciente La adopción por parte de las SS el movimiento de la centralidad de la economía del «crecer o de la agricultura biodinámica 171 morir» como de las estructuras de jerarquía y dominación que El perturbador pasado del ecologismo nazi 176 engendrarían dicha crisis, afirmando, de manera consecuente, qué soluciones ecológicas y sociales debían acompañarla? O El significado del pasado y el presente ¿denigraría las cuestiones sociales en favor de un salvajismo del ecologismo de derechas 182 místico y abrazaría el antihumanismo y el maltusianismo? Con estas preguntas en mente, consideramos que la experiencia ale- BIBLIOGRAFÍA 189 mana tenía bastante que aportar a estas cuestiones. En la década y media que ha transcurrido desde entonces,1 el panorama político ha cambiado bastante. Los movimien- tos ecologistas radicales, en cierto modo, han madurado y han desarrollado análisis de la crisis ecológica actual históri- camente más fundamentados y más lúcidos, mientras que las figuras predominantes de la derecha catalogan de «amenazas dictatoriales a la libertad» incluso las formas más tibias de ambientalismo. A la luz de estos cambios en el contexto, he- mos decidido reimprimir nuestro ensayo original sin revisar- lo, aunque añadiéndole un nuevo capítulo en el que se refleja 1. Este prefacio fue escrito en 2011. (N. de la E.) 7 JANET BIEHL Y PETER STAUDENMAIER | ECOFASCISMO el desarrollo de los acontecimientos desde mediados de la dé- INTRODUCCIÓN A LA cada de 1990. Tenemos la esperanza de que las cuestiones exa- minadas en este libro contribuirán a reforzar, informar y primera EDICIÓN revigorizar un modelo de política ecológica crítica y de con- frontación. Janet Biehl y Peter Staudenmaier, 2011 Actualmente, para las personas más compasivas y humanas, la crisis ecológica es una fuente de enorme preocupación. No solo hay numerosos activistas ecologistas que luchan por eli- minar los desechos tóxicos, por preservar los bosques tropica- les y las secuoyas centenarias, o para revertir la destrucción de la biosfera, sino que, desde cualquier ámbito social, mucha gente de a pie está profundamente preocupada acerca de la naturaleza del planeta en el que crecerán y habitarán sus hijos. En Europa, como en Estados Unidos, los sectores activistas más ecologistas se consideran socialmente progresistas. Es de- cir, también apoyan las demandas de los pueblos oprimidos que luchan por la justicia social y creen que las necesidades de los seres humanos en situaciones de pobreza o enfermedad, o que viven en estado de guerra y hambre, también requieren de toda nuestra atención. Para muchos de estos individuos puede resultar sorpren- dente saber que la historia de las políticas ecologistas no fue siempre inherente y necesariamente progresista y benigna. De hecho, las ideas ecologistas arrastran una historia de distor- sión y manipulación al servicio de fines altamente regresivos, e incluso de utilización al servicio del propio fascismo. Tal como Peter Staudenmaier demuestra en el primer ensayo de este panfleto, tendencias importantes en el «ecologismo» 8 9 JANET BIEHL Y PETER STAUDENMAIER | ECOFASCISMO INTRODUCCIÓN A LA PRIMERA EDICIÓN alemán —con hondas raíces en el misticismo naturalista del ecologistas de mentalidad progresista, estos reaccionarios siglo XIX— nutrieron durante el siglo XX el auge del nazismo. abiertamente fascistas enfatizan la supremacía del «Planeta» Staudenmaier demuestra que, durante el Tercer Reich, los sobre la gente; reivindican los «sentimientos» y la intuición «ecologistas» nazis convirtieron la agricultura orgánica, el ve- frente a la razón; y defienden un biologicismo crudo e incluso getarianismo y el culto a la naturaleza —y otros temas relacio- maltusiano. Los dogmas de la ecoideología New Age, que le nados— en elementos clave no solo de su ideología, sino parecen benignos a la mayor parte de la gente en Gran Bretaña también de sus políticas gubernamentales. Es más, la ideología y Estados Unidos —especialmente en su versión de deforma- «ecologista» fue utilizada para justificar la destrucción de ción mística y antirracional—, se entrelazan actualmente con los judíos europeos. Sin embargo, algunos de los temas que los el ecofascismo. El ensayo de Janet Biehl explora este secuestro ideólogos nazis articularon poseen una incómoda y cercana se- de la ecología para fines racistas, nacionalistas y fascistas. mejanza con temas que resultarán familiares a quienes hoy en En su conjunto, estos ensayos examinan aspectos del fas- día tienen preocupaciones ecologistas. cismo alemán, pasado y presente, con la idea de extraer apren- Como ecologistas sociales, no es nuestra intención menos- dizajes para los movimientos ecologistas, tanto en Alemania preciar los esfuerzos de suma importancia que ecologistas y como en el resto de lugares. Pese a sus singularidades, la expe- ambientólogos están llevando a cabo para rescatar la biosfera riencia alemana ofrece una clara advertencia contra
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