Janet Biehlová Livres

"In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fragmentation by affirming social solidarity among all the region's ethnic and religious peoples. As Syria plunged into civil war, the Kurds and their Arab and Assyrian allies established a self-governing polity that was not only multiethnic but democratic. And women were not only permitted but encouraged to participate in all social roles alongside men, including political and military roles. To implement these goals, Rojava wanted to live in peace with its neighbors. Instead, it soon faced invasion by ISIS, a force that was in every way its opposite. ISIS attacked its neighbors in Iraq and Syria, imposing theocratic, tyrannical, femicidal rule on them. Those who might have resisted fled in terror. But when ISIS attacked the mostly Kurdish city of Kobane and overran much of it, the YPG and YPJ, or people's militias, declined to flee. Instead they resisted, and several countries, seeing their valiant resistance, formed an international coalition to assist them militarily. While the YPG and YPJ fought on the ground, the coalition coordinated airstrikes with them. They liberated village after village and in March 2019 captured ISIS's last territory in Syria. Around that time, two UK-based filmmakers invited the author to spend a month in Rojava making a film. She accepted, and arrived to explore the society and interview people. During that month, she explored how the revolution had progressed and especially the effects of the war on the society. She found that the war had reinforced social solidarity and welded together the multiethnic, gender-liberated society. As one man in Kobane told her, "Our blood got mixed."" -- Provided by publisher

Are ecological ideas always progressive? What is the historical relationship between ecology and the far-right? This book traces the surprising background of far-right environmentalism, and offers an essential discussion on the contemporary significance and dangerous implications of the ecofascist legacy-in Germany and elsewhere.

Para muchas personas puede resultar una sorpresa saber que la historia de las políticas ecologistas no ha sido siempre inherente y necesariamente progresista. Su papel en el seno de las ideologías de corte fascista, y más concretamente en el nacionalsocialismo, es una incómoda verdad para la izquierda y el ecologismo político.A través de un exhaustivo trabajo documental, Peter Staudenmaier muestra las raíces ambientalistas y antroposóficas en que se sustentaba buena parte del movimiento nazi. Convirtieron incluso la agricultura orgánica, el vegetarianismo y el culto a la naturaleza en elementos clave, no solo de su ideología, sino también de sus políticas gubernamentales. Asimismo, la tarea propagandística de relevantes jerarcas nazis o el vínculo con la naturaleza del movimiento juvenil alemán —modelo para la organización militarista y disciplinaria hitleriana— evidencian que «lo eco» conformaba uno de sus ejes político-ideológicos más importantes.Como avisa Janet Biehl, esta asociación entre ecología y fines racistas, nacionalistas y fascistas no puede acotarse a una época oscura anterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el ecologismo contemporáneo existen corrientes de ultraderecha, que incluso han llegado a ocupar lugares de influencia en Los Verdes alemanes. Posiciones como la de Rudolf Bahro, defensor de un «Adolf verde» o de «un poco de ecodictadura» como salida a la crisis ecológica, evidencian que, lejos de ser un residuo histórico, la irrupción política del ecofascismo es un riesgo evidente.La escisión entre la cuestión social y la cuestión ecológica —o las teorías en que el análisis anticapitalista está ausente de la crítica a la degradación ambiental— brinda un espacio político e intelectual para el ecologismo autoritario. Ese riesgo es aún mayor en la actualidad, cuando el autoritarismo se está naturalizando como solución política a todas las crisis de un mundo estructuralmente catastrófico. Tenemos la esperanza de que los temas examinados en este libro contribuyan a reforzar un modelo de política ecológica crítica y de confrontación