As yours truly blogged at Independent Political Report, ecosocialists within the Green Party have it exactly correct: Earth Day to May Day is the only way to look at April 20. Per Albert Einstein's famous comment about insanity, we cannot truly and fully address climate change within the same capitalist system that has foisted climate change on our planet in the first place.
At the same time, many libertarians in Green clothing, like nutter William Pounds and his ilk, hate this. They hate anything with a whiff of socialism. And, as libertarians, they hate anything with a whiff of the regulatory state, which is also needed. Voluntary collectives, especially when the European idea of "libertarian" that's behind "libertarian socialism" is twisted into the American idea of libertarianism, can't do it. And, many of them, like Chad Wilson, have other problems.
The Green Party is going to crack up anyway, between the Howie-haters / Jesse Ventura cultists (and Dario Hunter fellow travelers), on one hand, and so-called "trans activists" ("trans" by itself is not a word except as the first word in the name of an old GM car or an old airline, and "transgender" is not "transsexual") demanding everybody run them up the flagpole and salute them while booting the Georgia Green Party on the other. (None of this should be taken as implying that I agree with everything some Georgia GP representatives have stated, either on this issue or other issues.)
But, with or without party alignment, I can still fight for ecosocialism on Earth Day. (The SPUSA has its own bits of "trans activism" problems from what I've heard.)
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