Greens hit 11% in Euro opinion poll

[taffboy gwyrdd]

What other capitalism are there? And what would you estimate is the % for supporting these other capitalism(s)?

One example: classic social market centre leftism has elements of capitalism. I'd say that has a fair degree of support in the party and the public.

 

[butchersapron]

Old style social demcracty yoy mean? Like what we used to have when the w/c was able to impose it on capital?

 

[Rod Sleeves]

Old style social demcracty yoy mean? Like what we used to have when the w/c was able to impose it on capital?

There's an element of the Green Party that seeks to impose it's will on the working class and uses green social democracy to sell this.

 

[Matt S]

I don't know about percentages, but the prevailing orthodoxy in the Party at the moment is probably left wing social democracy, albeit with a welcome added tinge of grassroots control. There is then a very small remnant of more 'deep greens', who tend to be towards the centre (or as they would put it, neither right nor left, but forward, and all that) and a larger group of outright anti-capitalists. I couldn't give you exact numbers.

I'm perfectly happy being in a Party where the 'right' is represented by people who are well to the left of Labour on pretty much everything, and where I have the space to argue for an explicitly radical anti-capitalist politics.

Anyway, I'll shut up now, people have been hearing this from me on these boards for yonks.

Matt