Re: Analysis of the U.S. Greens

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Macdonald Stainsby wrote:

> The Green Party had a leader, Fischer, who
> banned discussion about the war, declaring it a "moral imperative" or
> something almost exactly the same. Once the party did not call an
emergency
> no-confidence vote in Joshka (or whatever form that would take in their
> party program/constitution), they lost all respectability and became
> accomplises to Imperialism. There might be a lot of things a struggling
left
> party may be excused for while fighting inside a bourgeois parliament, but
> Imperialist war against sovereign states is never, in any circumstances,
> something included in that. Nothing else could provide a clearer dividing
> line.

Macdonald,

though you are right about the German Greens position on the war, your
criticism totally misses the point. You criticise them as they were some
sort of socialist party, but they are not. They are liberals right to the
SPD. E.g. this weekend their budget speaker in parliament warned the SPD
against too much spending on social issues.

There are really lots of illusions among all you North-Americans in the
character of the Greens as a party and their ideology.

Johannes