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Well, it seems that getting under 9,000 in a state as big as Texas isn't quite "no different" than tens of thousands in some other states. But that's our problem with the Greens, isn't it? That chronic unevenness among their level of organization and seriousness. You have some state parties that consist of serious, organized, and engaged members. Our best hopes for an insurgency have always rested on them...people who were choosing to make a conscious and deliberate break from the Democrats. However, the party is organized by social workers, teachers, NGO officers and various others wedded to the most bureaucratic and hierarchic kinds of structures. There are always some of them who style themselves as power brokers who are going to coax the Democrats left-ward by bartering away the party's independence. Here, the other "leaders" always defer to these, the most rotten and consciously sellout characters in the bunch. What we really need is some sort of nonpartisan committee to encourage progressive independent political action that could support Greens or anybody serious when they're mounting a solid campaign. This could also be used to encourage radicals to climb down out of their tree houses and cooperate with each other. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
