Is it going too far to equate the eco-earth cult movement with fascism? Many will object since fascism for most is equated solely with militarism. This is of course totally wrong. Fascism is corporate statism and though it can be militarist it is more importantly communal, pagan, and anti-Western — precisely like its eco-cult counterpart. Fascism in its political and eco form, has an utter disdain for humans, the poor, and modernity. They loathe the Western world and want its destruction.
Modern forms of fascism are expressions of massive state power. Modern fascist movements were of course socialist and opposed to freedom, individuality and market systems. Hitler and Mussolini for instance were both committed marxists and socialists with Hitler often commenting that the Nazis shared much in common with the Marxists and Communists which is why they needed to be eliminated. For both Hitler and Mussolini their nationalist fascist movements were implementations of extremist socialism, combining universalist theory with Marxist dogma.
As with the modern day eco-cult unlimited state power was the objective of the fascist or national-socialist movements. With the power of the state, fascist leaders could remodel the world. Hitler's volksgemeinschaft or 'social contract' subordinated the person to the state and gave the state control over most of the socio-economic functions. Mussolini's fascisti program was a contract between Italians and their imperial past, in order to build a new Roman empire, with the assumption that the individual was no longer important and would only have to obey the will of the greater community and state.
The tools of modern fascism are well known: a charismatic leader, the establishment of a cult parading as a religion [Islam is another example of this]; a universal world-view [all will submit to the movement's inevitable success]; endless propaganda; vilification of the modern world; supremacism [if you are not in the cult you are inferior]; state control over all aspects of thought and action; economic corporatism (where the state manages the economy); and a hatred for individual humans.
Fascism in the end analysis, is simply a death cult.
So how is the above any different from the modern pagan eco-cult movement — premised on lies, propaganda and media and educational manipulation?
One writer put it well:
"The Fascist social movement was the fighting arm of the European land-owning
community. Fascists were categorically hostile to the "free enterprise" model of
capitalism. While maintaining support from established Churches, Fascists promoted
subcultures involved in paganism, occultism, nature worship, soil worship, organic
farming, and tree-hugging. Fascists drew particular propaganda value from
pseudo-scientific claims that industry was destroying Earth's "ecology". Fascists
deployed a cynical propaganda strategy frequently using fabricated information.
The Environmentalist social movement is the fighting arm of the European and US
Northeastern land-owning community. Environmentalists are hostile to the 'free
enterprise' model...."
— from http://www.ecofascism.com/article14.html
There are direct links between fascists and their world-view and those of environmentalists. The links are old, obvious and premised on devaluing mankind while elevating the pagan and the anti-modern. The modern eco-fascist is not much concerned about human welfare. The cult of control, of creating a mythical and idiotically pagan world of submission to nature, is the objective. By its very character and nature, environmentalism is fascist since it is pathetically anti-humanist.
Historically pagan nature cults were failures. They failed in every sphere of human activity miring the human in a stone age or neolithic society with little hope for a better future. Mayans and Carthaginians murdered innocents including children, to appease mother earth. Mediterranean cults sacrificed animals, slaves, and undesirables to make mother earth more bountiful and caring. In Africa and pagan North America civilisation never reached beyond the levels acheived in Europe 10,000 years ago. What then is the price of the pagan earth cult?
The price is human blood. Modern eco-fascists demand the following all of which would result in humans dying en masse:
The Nazis and modern fascists would recognise the intent of the above limited list. The eco-fascists like their Nazi precursors want a very ugly new world order in which humans are to be sacrificed to the greater good of what the state deems to be vital.
Like the Nazis the eco fascists ignore reality. Technology and wealth make the world cleaner. The planet is better off now than at any time in the past 200 years. The richest countries are the cleanest. In Africa and elsewhere private conservation is saving species and the environment. CO2 emissions have nothing to do with climate and poorer areas of the world need more energy not less to get themselves out of poverty and over time improve their environment ... but logic has nothing to do with what the pagan fascists demand. The eco-cult demands submission — now.
Like earlier fascists the eco-elite will be the main beneficiaries of this not so new, fascistic world-view. Humans will die. The poor will starve. But Al Gore and his fascist friends will still fly the skies and still heat their 30,000 square-foot homes. The rest of the human race will be sacrificed to empower the few. All in the name of mother earth, state power and the destruction of the modern world. Environmentalism is just another sick, twisted, anti-humanist fascism.
Only the deranged drink from such a tainted ideological brew.