subterranean-fire:

Voting in electoral politics is democracy in a severely limited sense,
and there are definitely more important ways to help transform our world
for the better, but I do think much of the Green Party has their
intentions in the right place. Even if I am ultimately wary of a “more
jobs” discourse that ignores how many present jobs are unnecessary,
soul-crushing, or automatable, we will also ultimately need to pump a
lot of our social energy into building a green infrastructure.
That will require a lot of jobs and a lot of work, and a “Green New
Deal” is a useful way to contextualize all of that for people
uninitiated into left-wing politics. But we also need to talk about
democratizing production for social needs, thereby allowing us to
automate away lots of toil and completely eliminate jobs that only exist
to expand the reach and domination of capital; divvy up the remaining
work from there and each individual is left with significantly more
leisure time, probably even with the Green New Deal in mind. The Green
Party is a great start; I have no problems with praxis that seeks to
push it even further into the public consciousness, so long as we keep
pushing transformative anti-capitalist and anti-profit solutions further
as well.

And the Young Greens, their youth wing, are actually pretty damn cool! The last four pictures are from their instagram.

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