German Greens keep on proving the need for purges

On November 16th, the German Green Party had the chance
to vote out the current government of Germany in parliament
over the decision to send 3,900 troops to Afghanistan.
Instead a majority of parliamentary Greens supported
Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. On November 24th, the party
members confirmed the leaders' position by an overwhelming vote.

While some representatives of the petty-bourgeoisie Lenin
called "labor aristocracy" are still bemoaning the "treachery"
of Gerhard Schroder, and other imperialist
country social-democrats, the process of selling out has 
advanced to the next level. The Green Party offered itself
as a new "alternative" for years and now it has joined up
with the Social-Democratic Party in Germany to support
the war in Afghanistan.

The New York Times summed it all up this way:
"Members of Germany's Green party defied their pacifist roots and 
voted overwhelmingly tonight in favor of sending German soldiers to 
Afghanistan."(1)

Crucial to the reasoning of the Green "pragmatists" like Fischer
is the fact that Schroder would probably make a coalition without
the Greens to stay in power if the Greens voted Schroder out.
By voting for imperialist war, the Greens continue to hold at
least some power.

A supposed ex-revolutionary Joschka Fischer is Foreign
Minister and head of the Green Party. As a younger man,
Fischer had himself videotaped beating up a cop and
that videotape is in the hands of the daughter of
Ulrike Meinhof, the same Meinhof famous in Germany
for terrorist attacks.(2)

After November 16th,
the delegates at his Party Congress did not remove him
and instead accepted his position in favor of the war.
He received a standing ovation for his speech.

When mushy-minded Greens say they have "pluralism," they
do not kid. Sometimes the Greens support imperialist war 
against oppressed nations and sometimes they don't--just
like the other imperialists. That is why the Green Party
is a party of imperialism in Germany.

The German Green Party shows Greens everywhere their
future, because the German Green Party received more
support in Germany than in other countries. The German
Green Party is proof that purging parties is not just
necessary when operating in secret in police-states
like tsarist Russia. Purges are essential to preserving
the quality of the party. Otherwise, everyone's work just
gets wasted. MIM calls on the rank-and-file Greens
who don't support the bombing of Kosovo and the invasion
of Afghanistan like their leaders do to quit, take up
Lenin's theory of imperialism and work with us Maoists.

Note:
1. New York Times 25Nov2001. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/international/europe/25GERM.html?searchpv=past7days
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1107000/1107628.stm
See also MIM Notes 187 and 189 on the German Greens and their support for
the bombing of Yugoslavia.