ideology of greens

[Alex Trotter <uburoi@xxxxxxxxx>]

I looked at *Synthesis/Regeneration*, a journal published for members of
the Green Party USA, recently, and found nothing whatsoever in it that
you could remotely call fascistic. And they take the German *Gruenen* as
their model, bemoaning the fact that the U.S. has a "winner-take-all"
electoral system that effectively keeps them (and all third parties) out
of the government. They wish for a proportional representation system as
exists in Europe. The greens' magazine seems very pro-worker (i.e.,
pro-union) and they would probably aspire to make a coalition with a
Socialist or Labor party or maybe the left wing of the Democratic
party if they could. In other words, their ideology is basically
social-democratic. They don't call for revolution, nor do they have a
comprehensive critique of civilization. Although they are heavily
identified with feminism and women's groups that, for example, protest
nuclear waste dumping, they don't seem to have any affinity for what has
been described on this list as essentialist ecofeminism.


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