Re: Analysis of US Greens

[aabdo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Abdo)]

Howie Hawkins writes-
<Now is the time for the US left to come into the Green Party. After the
2000 election, the Greens will be ballot qualified in 30-40 states and
looking for candidates to run at every level. They will be debating what
the program should
be. Are ecological sustainability, social justice, peace, and democracy
compatible with capitalism? That's what the Greens are debating and
socialists should be part of that discussion.>

Really, Howie?      Hasn't that debate already occurred in the Green
Parties internationally, and the consensus has been, that captalism
needs reform, not an overthrow?      And the shift has been rightward,
not to the left.

In Mexico, the Greens ran Vicente Fox as their presidential candidate!
And I don't remember hearing any protests from Greens internationaly.
Have I missed Ralph Nader disassociating himself from Vicente Fox?
Is there any move to condemn the Mexican Greens as being out of the
mainstream?       The silence is loud.

Socialists should be building their own movement, not promoting a lesser
of two evils.... Nader as opposed to Gore.     And the reality is, most
Nader supporters would fly back into the Democratic Party at supersonic
speed, if just the right liberal were to come along.

Shouldn't we be leary of 'socialist' political currents, that always
seem to be making 'class' decisions that somehow slide over the class
barrier to the right?      Who's leading whom here?

Tony Abdo