Re: [Marxism] Green Party US on the edge?

["Mark Lause" <markalause@xxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed.

McKinney's alliance to the GPUS was always tentative.  If nominated by
the GPUS, it will largely be because of the peculiarly undemocratic
structure of the GPUS, which rather equates state parties with little
or no membership to state parties with large, engaged memberships,
such as California.  On the basis of "one Green-one vote," Nader's the
choice now, as it was in 2004.  Nader may yet decide to put his name
in the race within the GPUS, but he's apparently decided to make the
run on his own regardless of what the GPUS does.

Where that leaves the Greens is a very good question.  Certainly,
Obama's likely success is also certain to undercut a lot of the
potential appeal of a McKinney campaign.  This may leave the GPUS with
another lilliputian campaign focused largely on denouncing Nader.

Perhaps the Green organizations with real membership, such as
California and New York, should use the Nader campaign to build a
Progressive Green organization or something with democratic structure
based on the will of the membership.. This would subsume the best of
the old GPUS in such a way as to get something capable of moving on to
the next stage.

ML

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