Re: Analysis of the U.S. Greens

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Johannes Schneider wrote:

> 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.

Was the SPD proposing spending on education and renewable energy, or fresh
money for asphalt barons and concrete kings? These details matter.

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

Ich kann deutsch, Kamerad. The Greens' website over
at http://www.gruene.de/index3.htm is not exactly overflowing with
corporate endorsements; there's a lot of good stuff there, on funding
renewable energy, civic rights for gays and lesbians, multiculturalism,
switching from trucks to railroads, etc. The Bavarian Greens are
discussing what a radical politics of technology might be over at
<http://www.gruene.de/archiv/schraeg/schr0008/07technologie.html>. They're
asking questions which need to be asked, instead of assuming they have all
the answers in a magic box called "The Central Committee".

-- Dennis