Richard Hunt (editor)
Richard Hunt was a green anarchist activist, and editor of various environmentalist magazines, such as Green Anarchist and Alternative Green. He also contributed to early editions of Green Line. He was widely criticised in the anarchist community for his sympathies for nationalism, and wrote an editorial for Green Anarchist expressing patriotic support for British soldiers serving in the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq. Richard Hunt continued to have political disputes with the other editors of Green Anarchist, and shortly afterwards left the editorial collective to form his own magazine, entitled Alternative Green, of which he edited the first thirty-one issues and to which he contributed articles.
Richard Hunt | |
|---|---|
| Born | Richard Hunt October 8, 1933 |
| Died | 2012 |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Author, philosopher, editor, environmentalism, ecologist |
| Years active | Unknown–2012 |
| Home town | Oxford |
Hunt founded "Alternative Green" after leaving the editorial collective of Green Anarchist. According to the remaining editors of Green Anarchist, he left the collective following a conflict over what was perceived to be his nationalistic tendencies. This came to a head when Green Anarchist published an article of Hunt's that appeared to give patriotic support to Britain's role during the 1991 Gulf War. Hunt himself stated that the conflict arose when other editors wanted to move Green Anarchist's political direction further left, while Hunt wished to remain outside the left-right spectrum.[1]
Hunt maintained links to the syncretic National-Anarchist movement, although he himself opposed their views on racial separatism. Hunt contributed to The English Alternative, the journal of the National Revolutionary Faction.[2] Richard Hunt died in May 2012 after a series of strokes.
Written works
- To End Poverty: The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core
- The Natural Society: A Basis for Green Anarchism.
- Who's Starving Them?
- The Theory of Alternative Green
Further reading
- Anarcho-Anglo (13 September 2010). "To End Poverty: The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core by Richard Hunt". National-Anarchist Movement.
- "Dead Guy (2): Richard Hunt". National Anarchist!. 10 June 2012.
- Fleming, Andy (30 May 2009). "'Co-opting the Counter Culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction' by Graham D. Macklin". slackbastard.
- Green backwoodsman (19 November 1997). "Book Review: 'To End Poverty: The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core'". Socialist Party of Great Britain.
- Macklin, Graham D. (2005). "Co-opting the counter culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction". Patterns of Prejudice. Informa UK. 39 (3): 301–326. doi:10.1080/00313220500198292. ISSN 0031-322X.
- Pepper, David (2005). "Utopianism and Environmentalism". Environmental Politics. Informa UK. 14 (1): 3–22. doi:10.1080/0964401042000310150. ISSN 0964-4016.
- Sunshine, Spencer (2008). "Rebranding fascism: national anarchists" (PDF). The Public Eye. Vol. Winter 2008.
Notes
- An Interview with Richard Hunt
- For example, Richard Hunt, "Why Anarchism?", in The English Alternative 10 (1999)