The current government would also never slash the military budget by 75% without constant bottom-up pressure from an organized mass movement. This program is technically feasible under the existing government but is formulated to highlight the limitations of bourgeois electoral politics and compel people sympathetic to the banner for an ecosocialist GND to start drawing revolutionary conclusions, and to recognize the necessity of grassroots working-class organizing both within and beyond electoral campaigns.
the green new deal is a horrible idea
imagine that kind of project carried out by the CURRENT GOVERNMENT
The current government would also never slash the military budget by 75% without constant bottom-up pressure from an organized mass movement. This program is technically feasible under the existing government but is formulated to highlight the limitations of bourgeois electoral politics and compel people sympathetic to the banner for an ecosocialist GND to start drawing revolutionary conclusions, and to recognize the necessity of grassroots working-class organizing both within and beyond electoral campaigns.
and the alternative is...?
communist revolution and then green new deal of course