Makes broad call for freedom, ecology and Justice, as a rallying cry for liberating from plutocracy
Green Liberty as a collective voice for an egalitarian society, advances a broad call for freedom, ecology and Justice, as a rallying cry for liberating from plutocracy. There are two schools of thought for rationalizing removing the rich from power. One is appeal to the obvious, the chronic examples of domination from the plutocrats, read about here. The second is the Green Liberty idea to call out state crimes as a rhetorical priority, as explained in the “Ditch the Rich” essay.
The bottom line, the power elite has forfeited its right to rule on account of all the state crimes they have committed over the last 85 years; (and for other more mundane reasons as cited above). Consequently, for moral and political and humanitarian existential reasons, a liberation coalition needs to form a united front to resist and fight to create a society free from an actual evil plutocracy.
Why Green Liberty? What makes it a compelling idea?
As a play on our language, green and liberty were combined to define a green liberty caucus to give voice to a truth politics that is informed by green libertarian philosophy. The basics of green liberty is mostly pragmatic in its demand for accountability, transparency and protection for whistleblowers.
These demands represent an ideological resistance to the power structure which uses big lies to divide and conquer the people.
However, after accountability and a general call for liberation, green liberty stands for an egalitarian society. We accept that only a mass movement of the working classes, and others who recognize the problem of domination by a super rich cabal, can we hope to change the course of society.
The word ‘egalitarian’ is a good word to use to describe the better society. It is not freighted with any negative connotation, unlike socialism, communism and Marxism. These three words and ideas have been so pillaged by generations of relentless disparagement by mainstream media, they have become falsely conflated by the right wing to mean autocracy and totalitarianism. I am not saying don’t use the word socialism to describe the better society, just use egalitarian instead.
While I commend the revolutionary socialists in the Workers’ Strike Back movement, I think building up a liberation coalition based on a united front of a diversity of ordinary people, is what we should strive for. But there can be no doubt, a mass movement of workers is necessary.
Egalitarianism is a big tent idea that should be able to hold together conservatives and revolutionaries, as they advance a popular resistance. A conservative egalitarian would be one who espouses land tax reforms, democratization of money supply, formation of public banks, even socialist revolutionaries who espouse a central organization, while radical egalitarianism is expressed in the ideas of libertarian municipalism uniting cities and regions in a confederation, thus, abandoning the existing state and creating a new decentralized confederation of free cities. This will require a vast movement of engaged citizens.
I can imagine an egalitarian unity coalition made up of a diverse group of the population who would come together on a broad set of principles. As a liberation movement develops, ending the power and grip of the plutocracy would be a key point of agreement, but the extent and means, and final configuration of society, that could be worked out along the way.
So, why should people unite? What can be so important? Affordable Housing? Affordable health care? If these are the precipitating issues for a unity movement, one must ask why it hasn’t become popular already. Maybe because no one is explicitly advancing a revolutionary vision, and crying emergency, except for John Spritzler in this substack article.
The clear and convincing case that there is actually a Globalist plutocratic power structure should be a compelling reason for a revolution, for people to unite, to withdraw our consent to be governed, and organize for an alternative society. But most glaring, the elephant in the room, is the generations of state crimes against democracy that haunt us today. We are experiencing the impunity of unchecked deep state power.
I as a political truther am impelled to make calling out state crimes an element in building a united front against plutocracy because the gravity of plutocratic evil screams liberation.
I have challenged the Green Party to explicitly call out the key state crimes and the cover up of the JFK assassination, the September 11th attacks, and more recently the Federal Covid response. USA support for Israeli genocide in Gaza now becomes but another reason to ditch the rich, which means break with the Anglo-American, Atlantic NATO hegemonic cabal.
As a political truther, I have sought to bring the demand for truth into the Green Party, but establishment types resist this. They say, calling out state crimes is conspiracy theorizing and is a “fringe” issue that hurts the party. But I argue otherwise; we can grow our ranks if we cultivated indignation at the state crimes and used the anger of being lied to, to galvanize a majority to build an egalitarian movement that could transform society and exact justice as well. At least political truthers could provide a passionate group of partisans.
However, the majority of the truth activists that I meet don’t have an end goal. They want accountability for sure, and would like justice as well, but they don’t have a criticism of the power structure per se, and don’t propose to throw the plutocratic bums out.
John Spritzler, radical egalitarian, argues that if Green Liberty is committed to advancing an egalitarian society, then to accomplish this, a mass movement needs to be built up from the people and the concerns they have. Concern about state crimes is not popularly accepted by enough of the American people, he argues, and cannot be the issue that galvanizes people to engage in an egalitarian revolution. He argues basic bread and butter issues is where an appeal needs to be made.
Moreover, John argues a majority of Americans are already in a state of readiness to take the plunge and pledge to participate in a movement that would remove the rich from power so we can have real and not fake democracy. Once in power, egalitarians would be able to get justice for state crimes through prosecution of the bad guys. So, political truthers, he says, should build a movement first, then go for justice.
John’s point is that for a movement to develop, people have to know they are not alone in wanting to remove the rich from power.
I accept John’s arguments, but my deeply felt indignation at the state crimes impels me to bring the political truth movement into the Green Party, and the Green Libertarian sensibility into the truth movement.
My intuition tells me we can build a mass movement by declaring state crimes have been and are continuing to be committed and that we need to rebel against this. But I am not confident enough to say this is the issue that can bring down the whole plutocratic house. Maybe an argument that the Globalist plutocracy is discreetly advancing trans-humanist techno-totalitarian society would be more compelling.
In any case, to be very clear, we in a liberation movement need to state an intention that the rich need to be removed from power so we can have real and not fake democracy. We revolutionaries need to represent that an egalitarian society however it is ultimately configured, poses the best solution to generations and centuries of class rule and domination by the plutocracy; an egalitarian society is necessary from a power perspective as the only way to counter the plutocracy. Egalitarianism is a big idea that can inform how society is organized and goods and services distributed.
Strategically speaking, Greens should broadly stand in solidarity with egalitarianism, and assert an intention to transform society into a post-capitalist, cooperative, ecological society. With a stated intention to ultimately remove the rich from power, a movement can develop based on citizen activism informed by opposition to the war mongering, citizen desire for a regenerative agricultural system, desire for holistic / integrative health care that actually heals, and so on.
A united front would advance projects to expand a commons that could include a democratic money supply, social housing, and restoring nature to expand into bio-diversity, and form single payer health care for all, holistic education systems, and a food commons that produces nourishing non-toxic, organic food products.
In my mind, the chief reason we need to advance a liberation coalition, call it a united front, is to end the state crimes, but state crimes won’t end until the plutocracy is removed from power, to Spritzler’s point. The ruling class has shown that it is a criminal class on account of the crimes, and capture of the elites through blackmail. The ruling classes have wrecked the ecology of earth; they treat the masses like dirt, and are irresponsibly immoral in the way they use wealth to accrue more and more power.
A key challenge is the problem that the American people have been subjected to generations of propaganda that curate the big lies of the 60’s assassinations, the 9/11 attacks, and recently with Covid; “mockingbird” (CIA) media sets the official narrative. So, we need to educate on the truth about these events in order to overcome cognitive dissonance in society.
This cognitive dissonance is the block to the Green Liberty drive to call out state crimes as our chief problem. But it can be overcome with a steadfast determination to speak truth to power.
Immediately, Green Liberty Caucus has concrete items to advance within the state green parties:
Meet up locally and establish a Green Liberty group and participate in your local green party chapter as an explicit egalitarian that supports removing the rich from power and forming a democratic and ecological society.
Green Liberty activists can approach state green parties to adopt a platform plank for an egalitarian democracy;
We can advance a proposal for a Committee for Accountability that would be instituted within the Green Party US and advance policy positions and statements for consideration by the National delegates.
And finally, we have the prospect of creating a Green Liberty Caucus within the Green Party US, which requires organizing at the state levels and building up a network of green party members.