Thank you for sending me this. On the one hand there is progress. You at least recognise that the Scottish Green Party and the England & Wales Green Party are two entirely separate political parties. Actually barely on speaking terms. You also deem Greens important enough to think about, and write about and worthy of criticism. I appreciate that.
They are both members of and influenced by the (pan) European Green Party but otherwise formulate policy entirely separately. So you shouldn’t be putting them in the same sentence all the way through the article. Other than broad policy approaches there is little overlap in their day to day operations. The Scottish Green Party is predominantly socialist but not in the sense that we support socialist parties in other countries whether right or wrong. If the article was meant to address the over representation of the middle class it failed. And under representation of non white population it failed. But positive ideas would be welcome to help us overcome these failures.
Perhaps the Scottish Greens should debate pacifism - which seems a rational and moral response to the arms proliferation that is licensing murder across the world. War is nothing more than giving men permission to murder other people - to do unspeakable appalling things to other human beings that they would be rightly locked up for in peace time. To justify this murder by picking sides in a war between the powerful men who are doing the licensing - encouraged and supported by the mega industry that is profiting from the licensed murder - is naive and sort of ridiculous. Meanwhile working class lads are killing and being killed for nothing that is in their personal or collective interest - and as part of this paid work are conducting genocidal massacres against people just like them. The Generals and the politicians spouting their pro-war pompous bullshit are safe - many miles from the actual war. The lives they have ended and the impact upon their families never cones into the reckoning- lives ended and the living traumatised to the point where many long for death. Nobody talks about the reality of war. The inconvenient truth. The victims and survivors are the only side socialist and greens should be on - the 50,000 murdered children of Gaza would be a side worth taking, a voice worth amplifying.
Thank you for sending me this. On the one hand there is progress. You at least recognise that the Scottish Green Party and the England & Wales Green Party are two entirely separate political parties. Actually barely on speaking terms. You also deem Greens important enough to think about, and write about and worthy of criticism. I appreciate that.
They are both members of and influenced by the (pan) European Green Party but otherwise formulate policy entirely separately. So you shouldn’t be putting them in the same sentence all the way through the article. Other than broad policy approaches there is little overlap in their day to day operations. The Scottish Green Party is predominantly socialist but not in the sense that we support socialist parties in other countries whether right or wrong. If the article was meant to address the over representation of the middle class it failed. And under representation of non white population it failed. But positive ideas would be welcome to help us overcome these failures.
Perhaps the Scottish Greens should debate pacifism - which seems a rational and moral response to the arms proliferation that is licensing murder across the world. War is nothing more than giving men permission to murder other people - to do unspeakable appalling things to other human beings that they would be rightly locked up for in peace time. To justify this murder by picking sides in a war between the powerful men who are doing the licensing - encouraged and supported by the mega industry that is profiting from the licensed murder - is naive and sort of ridiculous. Meanwhile working class lads are killing and being killed for nothing that is in their personal or collective interest - and as part of this paid work are conducting genocidal massacres against people just like them. The Generals and the politicians spouting their pro-war pompous bullshit are safe - many miles from the actual war. The lives they have ended and the impact upon their families never cones into the reckoning- lives ended and the living traumatised to the point where many long for death. Nobody talks about the reality of war. The inconvenient truth. The victims and survivors are the only side socialist and greens should be on - the 50,000 murdered children of Gaza would be a side worth taking, a voice worth amplifying.