John Reimann in his blog piece, part one. "She repeated the position of Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin that it’s not a matter of “the right or the left”.
Greens have long had the slogan noted below. I rather doubt she has ever heard of, let alone read any book by Dugin. This is what the original West German Greens meant when they proclaimed that they were “Neither left nor right – but ahead.” The Greens rejected both capitalism and the existing alternative, the Soviet model of “actual existing socialism.” The Greens would move beyond these two outmoded systems and create a new society, a new “Third Way.” (Capra and Spretnak, 1984; Doherty, 2002; Hulsberg, 1988; Kitschelt, 1989; Poguntke, 1993; Shull, 1999; Talshir, 2003) Via The Greens: “Neither Left nor Right”? by John W. Warnock Sessions on Saskatchewan Politics and Political Economy Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences University of Saskatchewan. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=3be6baab60df655fc4a3e8abfbc88c53ae3381ae One of the books cited above , is well worth reading, https://www.versobooks.com/products/1227-german-greens?srsltid=AfmBOooLB-A4tpNYtPGJm2RIWnroE-ddlzNRdvI_hMFiy24QpwRxxzGs . https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/trevor-hancock-neither-left-nor-right-but-ahead-why-the-greens-are-different-4691704#google_vignette The slogan is phrased as ,"We are neither right nor left, we are in front," on the cover of "Green Politics: The Global Promise," by Charlene Spretnak & Fritjof Capra, also cited above. See, https://www.ebay.com/itm/335472810727 . Early Years of California Greens and their national and international Green roots By Charlene Spretnak "A ritual procession of twenty-seven people - including a nurse, a shop steward,a former general, a mason, several teachers, a veterinarian, a computer programmer,three engineers and a scientist, a bookseller, an architect, a journalist, anda lawyer - walked through the streets of West Germany's capital on March 22,1983 with a huge rubber globe and a branch from a tree that was dying from pollution in the Black Forest. They were accompanied by representatives from various citizens movements and from other countries. They entered the lower chamber of the national assembly, the Bundestag, and took their seats as the first new party to be elected more than thirty years. The new parliamentarians insisted on being seated in between the conservative party, who sat on the right side of the chamber,and the liberal-left party, who sat on the left. They called themselves simply Die Grunen, the Greens." -- from Green Politics, by Charlene Spretnak & Fritjof Capra More at https://www.cagreens.org/history/early-years-roots Michael Pugliese Michael Pugliese On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:43 AM Dennis Brasky via groups.io <[email protected]> wrote: > > So Reimann's thesis (if consistent) is that any and all opposition to "the > lesser evil" capitalist party is reactionary and is helping fascism. > This from a self-described Marxist on a Marxist discussion blog! > Or is this a comedy blog?? > > > > >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Reimann via groups.io >>> >>> Let’s be clear: >>> 1. The most important task in this election is to keep Trump/Vance out of >>> the White House and prevent their fascist-connected cult from gaining a >>> majority in either the Senate or the House. >>> 2. The election campaigns of Jill Stein and Cornel West are systematically >>> and knowingly undermining this task as well as preparing a defense against >>> the MAGA cult. They are also sowing disinformation on the actual dangers of >>> MAGA cult. Nor have they hesitated from associating with some of the most >>> reactionary forces in US and world politics today. >>> 3. The majority of the “socialist” left is playing a sectarian role and is >>> assisting Stein and West. >>> https://oaklandsocialist.com/2024/09/04/jill-stein-cornel-west-stalking-horses-for-trump-putin-and-assad-part-1/ >>> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32004): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32004 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108263050/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
