THE GREEN MOVEMENT: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL EXPLANATION.

This article presents information on the green movement. The following is an effort to explore the phenomenon, particularly directed at listeners and readers very used to conceiving of politics in terms of blue and red, market forces, protected by conservative parties and forces with planning and redistribution protected by socialist parties, both of them found in democratic and dictatorial versions. The Greens are obviously different, neither blue nor red, neither dictatorial nor democratic in the parliament- arian sense of that word. In spite of participating in parliamentary elections, mass action, direct democracy, local autonomy, self reliance and so on are obviously closer to their heart. This paper does not claim to have conclusive or any novel answers to the questions on the evolution of green movement but they are certainly worth exploring. The Greens have probably come here to stay and to expand. Hence, three analytical approaches: ideological, historical and sociological; not necessarily compatible, not necessarily contradictory, but well suited to shed some light on the phenomenon.