68운동과 녹색당의 형성 : “제도권을 향한 대장정”

The 68 movement and the formation of the Green Party in Germany

This article deals with the influence of the 1968 movement on the formation of the green party in Germany. The New Left, which led the movement in the late of 1960s, had gone through diverse political experiences from extreme terrorism through anti-nuclear protest to counterculture movements in the 1970s, after the SDS, the strongest of all student organizations, was falling into pieces. The learning process of the German Left during the decade had contributed to the formation of the Green Party. The activists of the 1968 movement began to engage in the anti-nuclear movements, which took place in the middle of 1970s. The mass environmental movements only emerged in the wake of the ferment associated the 1968 movement. In particular, demonstrations, sit-ins, go-ins and other protest actions were the methods which were already used in the 1960s. Rudi Dutschke, the leading figure of the 1968 movements, also made a scrutiny into the anti-nuclear movement. However, the direct initiative of the green party came from the conservative environmental activists, who had experienced the real politics, while the 68 generation still hesitated to participated in the formation of a political party. After the conservative environmental activists made effort to build a national-wide green party, the German Left took a part in the process. The 68 activists realized that what they learned in the 1970s could be bought in practise only through a political party.