What's become of the german greens?

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 81, 2013, Pages 95-117

  Jachnow, Joachim ^a  

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1. 'Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, daß deutsche Soldaten dort, wo im Zweiten Weltkrieg die Hitler-Soldateska gewütet hat, den Konflikt anheizen und nicht deeskalieren würden': Die Tageszeitung, 30 December 1994.
2. See Richard Holbrooke, 'America, A European Power', Foreign Affairs, vol. 74, no. 2, March-April 1995.
3. Christian Schmidt: Wir sind die Wahnsinnigen, Düsseldorf 1998
4. Jutta Ditfurth, Krieg, Atom, Armut, Was sie reden, was sie tun: Die Grünen, Berlin 2011.
5. Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism, London 2007
6. Nancy Fraser, 'Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History', NLR 56, March-April 2009.
7. Paul Tiefenbach, Die Grünen: Verstaatlichung einer Partei, Köln 1998.
8. Frieder Otto Wolf tackles the question of whether party-building should be on the agenda at all in his essay, 'Party-Building for Eco-Socialists', Socialist Register 2007.
9. In its heyday the KBW had a fortune of millions, possessing real estate in Frankfurt's new banking skyline, dozens of brand new vehicles and an up-to-date printing press; some of this went to support the Greens. A number of its former cadres made their way through other state and business institutions, as well as the Green Party. 'Die Beerdigung war "eher heiter"', Die Tageszeitung, 18 February 1985.
10. Werner Hülsberg, The German Greens: A Social and Political Profile, London 1988, p. 124.
11. Some newcomers did not even share the concern about environmental issues. As Fischer put it: 'Let's be honest for once: which of us is interested in the water crisis in Vogelsberg, motorways in Frankfurt or nuclear-power plants anywhere, because they feel personally concerned?' See Ditfurth, Krieg, Atom, Armut, p. 69.
12. Hülsberg, The German Greens, p. 108. A 1989 survey of the 5,000 Greens in Hesse revealed that 4,000 were functionaries or mandate holders. Pressures on women were particularly acute, given the 50 per cent quota, since women comprised only 30-35 per cent of the membership.
13. See Margrit Mayer and John Ely, eds, The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and Party, Philadelphia 1998, p. 10.
14. See also Frieder Otto Wolf, 'Eco-Socialist Transition on the Threshold of the 21st Century', NLR 1/158, July-August 1985.
15. Wolfgang Ehmke, Joschka Fischer, Jo Müller et al, 'Verantwortung und Aufgabe der Grünen', Grüner basis-dienst, no. 1, 1985, p. 15
16. cited in Roland Roth and Detlef Murphy, 'From Competing Factions to the Rise of the Realos', in Mayer and Ely, German Greens, p. 58.
17. Stern, 4 April 1988
18. Joschka Fischer, Der Umbau der Industriegesellschaft: Plädoyer wider die herrschende Umweltlüge, Frankfurt-am-Main 1989, pp. 59-61.
19. Unfortunately, little has been published about Green dissidents in the GDR. An early account that remains valuable can be found in Carlo Jordan and Hans Michael Kloth, Arche Nova, Berlin 1995.
20. Friedrich Heilmann offered a short retrospective on the reunification debate in 'Green Environmental Politics: Basic Values and Recent Strategies', in Ingolfur Blühdorn, ed., The Green Agenda: Environmental Politics and Policy in Germany, Keele 1995, pp. 143-66.
21. Joschka Fischer, Die Linke nach dem Sozialismus, Hamburg 1993.
22. See the Realo manifesto by Joschka Fischer, Hubert Kleinert, Udo Knapp and Jo Müller, 'Sein oder Nicht-sein: Entwurf für ein Manifest grüner Realpolitik', 1988.
23. See Frank Schirrmacher, 'Der lange Weg zu sich selbst: Wofür Joschka Fischer haftet', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 October 2001
24. Jamie Shea: interview for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk tv documentary, 'Es begann mit einer Lüge', February 2001.
25. Open Letter to the German Greens, 7 November 2001
26. cited in Jim Green, 'German Greens Off to War Again', Synthesis/Regeneration 27, Winter 2002.
27. Cited in Green, 'German Greens Off to War Again'. Leipziger Volkszeitung, 22 April 2011.
28. I borrow the term 'gospel of eco-efficiency', which sums up perfectly the chimera of an 'eco-friendly' capitalism, from the ground-breaking study by Juan Martínez Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation, Cheltenham 2002.
29. Ozzie Zehner has written a compelling critique of the use of 'eco-friendly' technology to green-wash an unsustainable economic model of ceaseless growth with catastrophic implications for nature and mankind: Zehner, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, Lincoln, NE 2012.
30. See Lutz Mez, 'Who Votes Green?', in Mayer and Ely, German Greens, p. 82
31. Bernard Wessels, Jan Engels and Gero Maas, 'Demographic Change and Progressive Political Strategy in Germany', Centre for American Progress, Washington, DC 2011
32. Federal Returning Officer, Wahl zum 17 Deutschen Bundestag am 27 September 2009, ch. 4
33. 'Wahlbeteiligung und Stimmabgabe der Männer und Frauen nach Altersgruppen', Wiesbaden 2010.
34. Forsa poll, cited in Derek Scally, 'Greens contemplate a post-election future with Merkel', Irish Times, 26 April 2013.
35. For example, in June 1999, Schröder ordered Trittin to veto the passage of a new EU directive on the recycling of old cars, apparently directly following interventions by the German car industry to the Chancellor.' Rüdig, 'Germany', in Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Thomas Poguntke, eds, Green Parties in National Governments, London 2002, p. 98. Trittin's journey from Babelsberg to Bilderberg-he attended the group's 2012 conference in Chantilly, Virginia-is almost as impressive as the path followed by Joschka Fischer.