Green Political Strategy and the State
Green Political Strategy and the State
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绿色政治战略与国家
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1999
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M. Paterson
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M. Paterson
The green movement has a set of diverse strategies, from ecosabotage through to parliamentary representation.1 Debates go on both within the movement and by academic commentators on the movement about the appropriateness of these strategies. Underlying this debate and the strategies is an array of attitudes to and theories about the state. It is the argument about the state which I propose to focus on, since it forms the context in which different strategies can be evaluated. In general, greens are fairly hostile to the state as a form of political organization. In Bob Goodin’s words, ‘Greens are basically anarchists-cum-libertarians’ (1992, p. 152). Even most parliamentarists in the green movement often espouse this hostility. The German greens have been most commonly among green parties known as an ‘anti-party party’, reflecting this position (see, for example, Kelly, 1991). However, both in political programmes and in green theoretical texts, this hostility is often rather ambiguous. While professing anarchistic tendencies, green programmes often contain in practice extensive proposals for what the state should do.