The Greens are what the ALP were a century ago. They start out with true believers who get the ball rolling, and as soon as the party becomes electorally viable, all the careerists and opportunists who are never around when there are yards to be done flock to something that already has momentum. Then they dilute whatever politics the party has to make it less frightening for the upwardly mobile, and trade action for access as the saying goes.
- https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-121/trading-action-for-access-the-myth-of-meritocracy-and-the-failure-to-remedy-structural-discrimination/
- https://www.marketforces.org.au/politicaldonations2023/
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/31/australias-weak-donation-laws-allowed-1bn-in-dark-money-to-go-to-political-parties-over-two-decades
Eventually they’re unrecognisable in terms of any values they allege to stand for in practise. As the political spearhead of the labour movement, the ALP breaks unions and approves new gas projects.
- The Rise of the Modern Labour Technocrat: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/27516670
- How Labor Built Neoliberalism: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=38983264E3C2EACA4F49413679F9F53C
- https://worldecology.info/green-wall-street-on-the-extractivist-co-option-of-ecological-politics/
- https://seqldiww.org/on-alp-deflection-from-crimes-against-humanity/
The German Greens have already been down the road the Australian Greens are going down now, and are now electorally unviable. This is on top of the historical example of the ALP which the Germans don’t have.
Try telling this to any electoral ecologist in this country though. ‘We could repeat the same mistakes or we could do something different that might actually work better’ lol. Jesus wept.
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of green electoralism and green technocracy.
