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🕑 Added 2022-01-18 08:00:04 +0000 UTCOn the German Greens' shady history.
Journalist Lily Lynch, editor of Balkanist, joins us to talk about her recent investigations into the Green Party, who are now back in power in Germany.
The 68ers attempted to combat authoritarianism and Nazi legacies through sexual liberation, building on the work of Wilhelm Reich. How did this lead some small groups associated with the Greens to advocate paedophilia – and even to accept former Nazis into their ranks?
Later the Greens would fully embrace war. We discuss how their emphasis on "maturity" and multilateral humanitarianism became the means through which they justified their new hawkish stance and adoption of NATO's cause.
Readings:
- Meet the German Green Party: From "Pedophile Rights" to Post-Pacifism, Lily Lynch (free)
- The German Green Party's Oldest Member Was a Known Pedophile Nazi Stormtrooper, Lily Lynch
- West Berlin Had a "Radical" All-Female Pedophile Commune with Links to the German Green Party, Lily Lynch
- How a Pacifist Party Gave War a Chance, Lily Lynch
- What's Become of the German Greens? Joachim Jachnow, NLR (2013)
- No End to Neoliberalism in Germany, Bernhard Pirkl, Damage (Dec 2021)
Comments
Demian-Noah Niehaus
For all who read German, Sven Reichardt's "Authentizität und Gemeinschaft" (Authenticity and Community) is an excellent historical account of the 68er milieu in Germany, including a longer discussion of the Greens' paedophilic connection.
Ceren Temizyurek
I think the point about Wilhelm Reich and Massenpsychologie des Faschismus is really wrong and misleading. It’s a book published in 1933, and being extremely thick, most people don’t really read it. To say that it has had a substantial influence on the Greens and the 68 movement is really a stretch and an unsubstantiated claim. Besides, the book’s actual conclusions are quite different than those given by Lily.
