Hans Hauge on ecological consciousness

The father of Danish deconstruction on the left's nature-worship:

post-danmark.jpg På et ikke nærmere bestemt tidspunkt blev de røde grønne; socialismen udskiftede klassebegrebet med naturbegrebet. Det gjorde den ikke af kærlighed til skove, tudser, sæler og søer, men for selv at overleve i det risikomoderne uden sit analytiske begreb. Og naturen er lettere at overbevise og styre end arbejderklassen. Den strejker ikke. På venstrefløjen er økologi et middel. Ikke til at bevare naturen, men nationen og til at forsinke og fordreje markedskræfterne med. Selve ordet "økologi" stammer som bekendt fra en nazist (E. Haeckel).

At some time in the past the Reds became Green; socialism replaced the concept of class with the concept of nature. It didn't do this out of love for forests, toads, seals and lakes, but instead in order to survive in the condition of risk-modernism without its analytical notions. And nature is easier to persuade than the working class. It doesn't strike. For the left wing, ecology is a means to an end. Not to protect nature, but nation, and to delay and distort market forces with. The word "ecology" itself, as we know, comes from a Nazi (E. Haeckel).

Post-Danmark: Politik og æstetik hinsides det nationale, p.36

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