Fundi

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term Fundis (coll .: by fundamentalists ) was used as an intra-party battle term in the West German party Die Grünen in the 1980s and early 1990s . The current of the Realos around Joschka Fischer referred to their internal party opponents as Fundis , who , in contrast to the Realos, were critical of participation in government. They called themselves radical ecologists ( Jutta Ditfurth ). The party links around Rainer Trampert and Thomas Ebermann , some of whom came from the Communist League or from the anti-revisionist wing of the Jusos , described themselves as eco-socialists . The term later became common parlance and referred to all those within the Green Party who represented system-critical, anti-capitalist and pacifist positions or who adhered to principles such as the separation of office and mandate and the principle of rotation .

The term was used for the first time in the disputes within the state association of the Greens in Hesse over cooperation with the SPD after the state elections in 1982. The Greens entered the state parliament with 8.0% of the vote, in which neither the SPD nor the CDU had their own majority (" Hessian conditions "). In their state election program, the Greens announced a "fundamental opposition to the hostile and undemocratic policies of the SPD, CDU and FDP". Those who therefore rejected a coalition with the SPD were referred to as Fundis. The Realos emerged victorious from the internal party disputes. Several years of tolerance by an SPD minority government was followed on December 12, 1985 by the formation of a first state government with the participation of the Greens . Joschka Fischer became environment minister.

At their Federal Assembly on 22./23. June 1985 in Hagen, the Greens stated for the first time at a federal assembly that they also consider government participation at the federal level to be possible:

“Opposite parts of the fundamentalist wing, the Federal Assembly states: For DIE GRÜNEN, the entire spectrum of parliamentary possibilities from the opposition to sole government is one of the natural possibilities of our parliamentary work. We reject voluntary self-restraint on the opposition ... The Federal Assembly states to parts of the realpolitical wing: The pursuit of power at almost any price as an alleged question of fate of the Greens is ... not acceptable for the Greens' policy aimed at fundamental change in society. "

At the end of the 1980s, a part of the left-wing party within the Greens, who did not want to rule out government participation, in the Left Forum distanced themselves from rejecting government participation, including the later Minister of State in the Foreign Office Ludger Volmer and the later editor-in-chief of New Germany , Jürgen Reents .

Prominent representatives of the eco-socialists around Rainer Trampert and Thomas Ebermann left the party in 1990, the group of radical ecologists around Jutta Ditfurth in 1991. A common organization did not come about, in foundations such as the ecological left or the Alternative List in Hamburg only a minority of the organized previous Fundis, others went to the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). Many left-wing Greens participated in 1989–1991 in the attempt specifically initiated by the magazine , but ultimately unsuccessful, to work with the radical left on a new left-wing collection project with other forces ( United Socialist Party (VSP), parts of the Autonomous , Communist Federation (KB) etc.) .) to bring into being.

In the present, the term Fundi has lost its meaning in internal party disputes at Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, because participation in government is no longer fundamentally controversial, principles such as the separation of office and mandate or rotation have lost importance, and Fundis in the original sense are no longer noticeably represented in the party.

In contrast, the term Fundi appears with a meaning analogous to that used by the Greens to describe an inner-party wing of the party Die Linke . The term fundamentalism is often used with a different meaning in the political discussion.

literature

  • Thomas Ebermann / Rainer Trampert: The future of the Greens. A realistic concept for a radical party . Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-922144-40-3 .
  • Makoto Nishida: Currents in the Greens (1980–2003): An analysis of informally organized groups within the Greens. LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9174-7 .
  • Joachim Raschke , Gudrun Heinrich: The Greens. How they became what they are . Bund, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7663-2474-8 .
  • Joachim Raschke: The future of the Greens. You can't rule like that. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-593-36705-X .