[lbo-talk] Nader/Greens in 2000 & 2004

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 23 09:31:40 PST 2004


Chuck0 wrote:


>>(Howie Hawkins, "'Strategic Voting' Is Strategic Suicide,"
>>_Synthesis/Regeneration_ 32, Fall 2003,
>><http://www.greens.org/s-r/32/32-18.html>) *****
>
>I often disagree with Yoshie on many things, but this post from her
>just contains a bunch of political gems.

By the way, Howie Hawkins says:


>The Green Party's political independence is not only about policy
>planks in the platform, but even more fundamentally about political
>class independence from the corporate ruling class. It is about the
>Green Party as an institution independent of corporate money as
>opposed to the Democratic Party as an institution dependent on
>corporate money and, when governing, dependent on corporate
>investment.

So how does the Nader candidacy promote the Green Party "as an institution"?

And aren't there two Green parties? I can't keep 'em straight.

Doug



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