Re: Analysis of the U.S. Greens

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Macdonald Stainsby wrote:

> Dennis:
> >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.
>
> Well, Dennis... these *are* liberal demands, however progressive they may
> be.

Just what is liberal about saving the planet from capitalist greed, and
trying to create a just, tolerant society where people are valued as
people, and not classified according to their reproductive status? Marx
was a ferocious critic of liberal ideology, but he constantly harped on
the socialist possibilities of liberal reforms (all those quotation from
the Factory Acts, e.g.).

-- Dennis