[Marxism] Green Politics: A Muted Form of Class Colaboration - Hardly Ultra-leftism

[Douglas MacDonald <dmacdonald94591@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis;

The Green Party of the United States is expressly pro-capitalism. Moreover, the 
minority anti-
capitalist-Greens fail to embrace sociailsm and instead tail end two liberal 
capitalist in the form
of Nader and Camejo.  There is nothing ultra-left about opposing political 
parties or
candidates that support capitalism in the international economy or the local 
economy.  Yes, we must unite mass political movements and their electoral 
expression with a social base.  This is a requirement for the liberation of the 
majority working-class population.

However, the Green Party is berefet of any class-consciousness and is 
implicitly anti-
materialist and a-historical.  As such it offers working class people nothing 
but a dead end and a softer "greener" form of class-collaborationism.  To 
advocate independence and opposition to the two party system does not 
necessarily translate into empowerment for the working class.  The Green Party 
platform offeres only ameliorative idealistic notions of citizen-centered, 
popular-front politics.  The popular-frontism of both the Nader and Cobb wings 
is undeniable - the primary difference being the heralding of a by-gone 
Jeffersonian localized
democracy (Nader) and the protection of corporate rule under a new-deal 
conservationist platform (Cobb).

To suggest a break with and campaign against Greens as well as Republicans and 
Democrats  is NOT the same as calling for a revolutionary socialist party.  The 
confusionism of the Greens  and thier scattered "independent resurgence" can 
onlly dilute the efforts of those who seek to coalesce an expressly working 
class based social, political and electoral movement in this nation. Just 
becasue such a movement is smaller than even the Greens makes it no less  
necessary and such advocacy certainly is not a denial of objective conditions.  
It is the  objective conditions that create the need for class-independent 
advocay.

As I said previously, we must unite with all those who seek to work on 
progressive issues of a  transitional nature: anti-war work, anti-racism 
anti-corporeate etc.  But we must manitain and  highlight CLASS independence or 
else risk sinking in the quagmire of liberalism.

-Douglas MacDonald

                
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