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As for the Green Party's call for "the creation and spread of local currencies and barter" and "consumer items that would contribute toward economic autonomy for individuals," these eccentric reactionary positions are pitched to layers of the petty bourgeoisie concerned with ecology and small-scale production. This anti-industrial stance is fundamentally anti-working class, dreaming of a long-gone pre-industrial age, and America of small farms and small businesses...and rural idiocy and backwardness [ellipses in original].
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