Re: [Marxism] Green Party Window Dressing Emasculates Socialist Politics

[John Crockford <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In 2004, I ran for the State Assembly in California as a Green.  My 
time in the Green Party afforded me the opportunity to re-engage myself 
politically and culturally (I am retired and in my 50s). I became 
increasingly interested in socialism, started to do some research and 
reading and finally concluded that I am indeed a socialist. I then went 
to the County Clerk's office and changed my party affiliation to Peace 
and Freedom. Since I am interested in the electoral process and believe 
in the need to offer voters candidates who would support the needs of 
the working class, I sought out and found a socialist party with ballot 
status. My question is "Why would any socialist choose a non-socialist 
party when there is already a socialist party that is 
ballot-qualified?"

John Crockford


On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Douglas MacDonald wrote:

> Basic Marxism and socialism calls for the creation of at LEAST a party
> opposed to capital based on the working class.  The Green Party 
> Platform
> opposes such politics by abdicating basic working class independence 
> and
> power and instead supports “community-based economics” and “Ten Key 
> values”,
> a fuzzy-liberal conception that supposedly challenges corporate power 
> while
> maintaining a softer and kinder localized "Green" capitalism.


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