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By Bruce Dixon.
The problem is the way the Green party is currently organized. It’s a
national federation of state parties that doesn’t really require much of
its state level affiliates. There is no common definition of who party
members are, and consequently party officers, however highly motivated
they might be, are not accountable to any significant base of members.
In most cases there is no stable source of party funding like membership
dues to fund offices, organizers or any of the activities which you’d
expect to see in a bona fide party of the left.
There are a number of Greens around the country (I’m one of them) intent
on transforming their party into a dues-paying membership based
organization with a more explicitly socialist bent which can fund
offices, organizers and carry on some of the social movement activities
which US leftists have been accustomed to leaving in the hands of
nonprofits funded by the one percent. But this is for the months to
come. Right now, it’s difficult to argue that the Green national
steering committee has a whole lot more small d democratic legitimacy
than the Stein campaign.
If this is a movement and we’re building a real party we have to get
used to handling disagreements without pronouncing anathema on one another.
full: http://blackagendareport.com/node/5477
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