> On Dec 7, 2025, at 19:48, Charles via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > has anyone in DSA criticized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for illusions in her > Green New Deal?
I am not in DSA, but I have been criticizing AOC for taking the Green Party’s GND slogan, watering down the program, and giving it a neoliberal policy framework since 2019 when she and Senator Ed Markey proposed their non-binding GND resolution to Congress. Here is one of my many statements, this one from a Green Party US press release in May 2023: https://www.gp.org/gp_urges_aoc_to_embrace_its_initial_green_new_deal > The Greens noted that while even progressive Democrats add decades on to the > timeline that the Greens argue science calls for, they also have dropped the > Green Party's GND Economic Bill of Rights to living-wage jobs, income above > poverty, affordable housing, universal health care, life-long free public > education, and a secure retirement. Democrats have increasingly limited the > Green New Deal to a marketing device to highlight that the transition to a > clean energy future is a job creation strategy. > > Howie Hawkins, the 2020 Green Party candidate for President, and the initial > author of the Green New Deal in the U.S., pointed out some issues dropped > from the GP GND by AOC-Markey: > > ban on fracking and new fossil fuel infrastructure > phase out of nuclear power > deep cuts in military spending to help pay for the GND > zero emissions by 2030 — extended it to 2050 > real zero emissions — changed to net zero, opening the door to continued > fossil fuel burning combined with sketchy carbon offsets and sequestration > ecosocialist planning and production through public agencies and enterprises > — replaced that with market incentives for private businesses and consumers We know where AOC got the GND slogan from. She was campaigning for a Green candidate running on it in 2017 before she ran as a Democrat for Congress in 2018: https://x.com/AOC/status/926916204433936384. That candidate’s campaign manager was her campaign manager in 2018. The Green Party’s platform plank on the GND now calls for an Ecosocialist GND to distinguish it from the progressive Democrats’ neoliberal GND: https://www.gp.org/ecological_sustainability/#esClimateChange -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39677): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39677 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116655555/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
