> Doug and Dennis R Redmond wrote:
>
>>I have to admit, though, that even though I myself
>>am registered Green,
>
>Oxymoron?
>
>>the German Greens are starting to worry me. They
>>*ought* to be taking advantage of this moment to press their own
>>eco-socialist economic vision. But I can find neither hide nor hair of
>>even the slightest vision of an alternative to the rule of what we might
>>call the ECBlatura.
>
>I interviewed a German Green MEP for my radio show, one recommended by
>Hinrich Kuhls. He was breathtakingly moderate. What's going on with the
>Greens? Ruined by state office?
>
I was away from my computer over the weekend so I can say anything about
this one just now, but you American guys are tooo funny. 'Eco-socialist
economic vision'? This was long ago in the eighties. The eco-socialist wing
around Ebermann and Trampert left when my memory serves me right already at
the end of the eighties. The current green catchword is eco-market-economy.
Today the Greens are to the right of those in the SPD represented by
Lafontaine. The speaker for finance issue for the Green party in parliament
already stated that now that Lafontaine is gone it will be much more easy to
get a tax reform that favours big business.
'Ruined by state office'. If you really watched the German Greens over the
years all this would noz be of much surprise for you. I was scepitcal in
September when I heard all of you jubilating over Red-Green in Germany. The
problem with you is when the Wall Street Journal says twenty times, the
Financial Times ten times and the Guardian once Lafontaine and the Greens
are radical left-wingers you believe it in the end.
Johannes