Organizational characteristics of the Green Party

Unlike traditional political parties, the ideology of the Green Party openly hopes to transcend class boundaries, the left and the right, and regards survival with the people and nature as its highest goal. The Green Party's proposition is neither capitalist nor social democratic, let alone socialist. Its starting point is all mankind, regardless of class or stratum. What it cares about is not the survival of any class, stratum or part of people, but the survival of the whole mankind and the planet.

Green parties in various countries have the same characteristics in terms of theoretical program, ideology, policy proposition and organizational principles:

The principle of "ecological priority"

The Green Party is based on ecological philosophy. Emphasizing environmental protection and ecological balance is the most fundamental political principle of the Green Party, which is not only a sign that the Green Party is different from other political parties, but also the basis for the Green Party to formulate its programs and policies. The Green Party is the product of ecological principles and takes it as the guiding weapon of the theoretical program. The ideology of the Green Party is based on the general system theory and takes ecology as its core thought. The green party believes that man is a part of nature, not above it; All mass organizations on which we communicate and life itself depend on the interaction between us and the biosphere. The Green Party believes that it is very harmful for us humans to pretend to be masters of nature, to be complacent with the pursuit of conquering and transforming nature, and to constantly ask for it from nature. Once the ecological environment is destroyed, it is impossible to recover, and the so-called remedial measures can only be an expedient measure to harm others and blame others. The ideology of the Green Party is based on the general system theory and takes ecology as its core thought. The post-modern political and social background of Green Party members and their supporters and their unique ecological political and social views constitute a "green landscape" in contemporary European society and politics.

Economically, the Green Party clearly opposes the current consumer economy, which is only driven by interests, wantonly destroys resources, destroys ecological balance and increases productivity without limit. It believes that this economy will not only push the economy to collapse, but also make people have to accept all tragic and oppressive aspects of labor in order to earn income.

In order to achieve ecological balance and protect the environment, the Green Party proposed "no investment regardless of the future" and advocated banning industries that endanger ecology and consume energy. It emphasizes that protecting the balance of ecosystem is higher than the need of general economic growth, and advocates replacing "market economy" and "market finance" with "ecological economy" and "ecological finance".

It is based on the basic principles and principles of modern ecology that the Green Party can treat everything from a global, holistic, multi-faceted and multi-level perspective with a systematic and dynamic perspective, and treat seemingly unrelated issues such as environmental pollution, high unemployment rate and bureaucracy. It is the land ethics of modern ecology about the harmony between man and nature, man and society, and man and man that enables the Green Party to put forward the programs and goals of social justice, social security and non-violent activities. Modern ecology emphasizes the concepts of interrelation, mutual influence and interdependence between things, which have become the scientific basis and action criterion of the Green Party.

The Green Party also calls for changing people's lifestyle, gradually negating the traditional economic growth model and consumption concept, and advocating simple life and returning to nature.

two principles of nonviolence

The Green Party's principles of nonviolence include ending simple violence and structural violence. The former is against violent means to solve conflicts, while the latter is a fundamental political principle in green politics.

According to the principle of ecological harmony, what the Green Party opposes is the existing society full of violence and oppression and exploitation. Therefore, although the debate within the party on whether to admit violence is extremely fierce, and even split due to differences, the Green Party still adheres to the principle of non-violence. The Green Party believes that structural violence refers to violence committed by the state and the system as the main body, that is, the system of oppression and exploitation imposed on society and individuals by the state government. Among them, the most typical and concentrated acts of violence are military militarism, discrimination and oppression against women and exploitation of third world countries and people.

The principle of non-violence is a creed that every Green Party party member must abide by. The principle of non-violence of the Green Party is to oppose all personal and state violence. The Green Party is convinced that as you sow, you reap what you sow, and fighting violence with violence can only lead to more serious violence. The Green Party has always taken a clear-cut stand in dealing with war. It opposes war and maintains world peace. The Green Party believes that modern warfare will not only destroy mankind, but also cause serious damage to the ecological environment. Therefore, people can see that the Green Party has become an out-and-out defender of pacifism. Where there is war, there are protests in which the Green Party organizations participate. Denuclearization, demilitarization and dissolution of NATO have always been advocated by the Green Party.

following the principle of non-violence, the Green Party has extensively launched the world peace movement, the movement against the deployment of nuclear weapons and the movement for disarmament. Qi Xin, the Green Party, joined forces to oppose the American war against Iraq, believing that the war would inevitably cause human and environmental disasters.

Propagandizing pacifism, opposing nuclear deterrence, opposing all wars and belligerence, and advocating world peace, first of all, achieving peace in Europe and building a Europe without group confrontation (abolishing opposing military organizations) and unarmed zones have become the highest realm envisioned by the Green Party. To this end, they put forward that Germany should first destroy nuclear weapons and unilaterally disarm, and implement a unique social defense policy, which requires all citizens to defend their country with stronger faith, more courage, more noble spirit and more intimate organizational behavior, and to use non-violent and uncooperative behavior.

In the struggle against structural violence, the Green Party's opposition to the oppression of women is an important part. They believe that in modern society, women are the biggest oppressed and exploited group. Therefore, protecting women's rights has become the most violent attack launched by the Green Party against the violence of the state system. They put forward a lot of feminist legislation, equal pay for equal work, education equality, property inheritance, child rearing and the right to abortion, which aroused widespread concern and strong shock in the whole society.

In the Green Party's view, the world order is full of structural violence and de facto inequality and unfairness, and it is basically a colonial legacy. Developed countries use their advantages in all aspects to brutally exploit and plunder the third world, which is the main reason for poverty and backwardness in developing countries. Based on this, the Green Party proposes to give assistance to the Third World, provide it with an opportunity to be self-reliant, adjust its economy and seek development, reduce the dependence of developing countries on developed countries, and strive to establish a partnership of equality, mutual benefit and friendly cooperation. Among the active political parties in the western social and political arena today, only the Green Party is the most active and active in third world affairs. Their leaders frequently visit third world countries, and their think tanks strengthen the study of the development strategies and practical problems of third world countries. There are research groups of the Third World in the organizations of the Green Party at all levels, which is a very noticeable positive phenomenon and the significance of the social progress of the Green Party.

the mission of the green party-environmental protection and peace: as a political party aiming at ecological issues, the green party pays special attention to environmental protection and peace, and therefore it puts forward two important principles, namely, the principle of "ecological priority" and the principle of "non-violence".

Three Grassroots Democracy Principles

The Green Party strongly emphasizes the principle of grassroots democracy. People must control the complex interaction among social, ecological, economic and political forces more directly.

the European green party believes that the traditional party politics has been combined with the interests of big capital, and the big capital groups have controlled the decision-making of the state and governments at all levels through lobbying, bribery, gifts and other means, and their power is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people. Because of its bureaucratic and hierarchical organizational structure, the top decision-makers of political parties have divorced from the lower party member and the masses, lost their sense of social responsibility and can no longer represent the interests and aspirations of the lower masses. They have an unshirkable responsibility for the existing social and ecological problems, and they also lack sufficient confidence and ability to solve these problems. Therefore, the Green Party runs through the principle of grass-roots democracy in its organizational structure and tries to attract more public support by expanding democratic participation. In the joint program formulated in 1983, the German Green Party made it very clear: "We decided to establish a new party structure, which is based on the inseparable concepts of grass-roots democracy and decentralization. We believe that a party lacking this type of structure is not suitable for convincingly supporting the ecological policy within the parliamentary democratic mechanism. " The Green Party, a grass-roots participatory organization, aims to expand grass-roots power and prevent the formation of power from being monopolized by institutions and individuals.

In the view of European Green Party, the current parliamentary democracy and party competition in Europe have prevented citizens from participating in politics and led to political disappointment. Therefore, political self-determination and direct democracy should be introduced into social and political life to overcome it. The Green Party believes that the ideal form of the future democratic system is a decentralized grass-roots politics with the community as the core of power, internal unity and cooperation and direct democratic control as the main means. The construction of such a democratic political system laid the basic model of the organization principle and operation mechanism of the Green Party. These operating mechanisms are mainly manifested in:

First, the grass-roots authorization system from bottom to top. The biggest difference between the Green Party and the traditional political party is that its decision-making process is not top-down, but bottom-up. The grass-roots level holds the actual decision-making power, while the higher-level institutions are just offices.

the second is the rotation and tenure system of cadres. In the Green Party's view, "a long term of office will concentrate information and power, which conflicts with the ideals of the grassroots; The Hitler era has shown the danger of giving power to leaders with extraordinary abilities. The Green Party should pursue the ideal of a network system without officials, and everyone should participate in the management of their society.

the third is the system of collective leadership. Political power is decentralized, and the Green Party practices collective leadership from the central to the local level. In order to prevent any monopoly of power, the Green Party stipulates that one person should not hold several positions, implements a leadership rotation system, and has strict restrictions on the establishment and re-election of positions within the party. Fourth, the ratio system between men and women. Equality between men and women is the embodiment of political democracy, and the equal participation of men and women in inner-party affairs should become the practice of the Green Party.

Although the organizational structure and institutional arrangement of the Green Party in Europe are still weak compared with the traditional political party structure, and even suspected of anarchy, the theoretical and practical exploration of the Green Party in this regard has had a great impact on the economic development, political concepts and political party structure in contemporary Europe, and has had a direct or indirect impact on the development model of the whole world. European Green Party believes in eco-politics and direct democracy, and often stands on the side of the oppressed and the poor. Some people call it a "new Marxist" or a "post-Marxist".

Four anti-nuclear principles

The Green Party has always advocated denuclearization and demilitarization.

the green party is firmly opposed to the use of nuclear energy. Under the impetus of the German Green Party, Germany has formulated a policy of gradually abolishing nuclear energy. When German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visited China at the end of 23, he promised to export to China a plutonium fuel factory established by Siemens in Hanau, western Germany. The function of the plant is to produce plutonium fuel rods by using the residual uranium in the power generation process of nuclear power plants and plutonium produced in the nuclear fission process, and then use them for nuclear power generation. German ruling parties, the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party have great differences on whether to sell the nuclear fuel plant to China. Germany's Green Party, which advocates environmental protection, and various environmental organizations are the main forces against exports. It touched a sensitive nerve of the Coalition government of German Social Democratic Party and Green Party, that is, the differences between the two parties on the use of nuclear energy. The Green Party started from the anti-nuclear movement. There is a fierce quarrel between the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party.

Russia once offered to buy the equipment of this factory, but it was abandoned due to the firm opposition of the Green Party. The Green Party believes that since nuclear energy is undesirable, it cannot be exported to other countries.

The German environmental protection organization launched a campaign called "We Buy Hanao ourselves", calling on people to chip in to buy this factory, so as to prevent it from being sold to China. The operation raised more than 8, euros. However, many participants said that it is purely a "dream" to collect the required 5 million euros, and "this is to express the position against nuclear energy export to the government". Angelica Bell, one of the two chairmen of the Green Party, claimed that it would be absurd to decide that German nuclear power should be dismantled on the one hand and export nuclear equipment on the other. Beattie Koffel, another chairman of the German Green Party, said: "We all think it is a very dangerous technology, so we can't sell it to foreign countries.". However, because German law does not prevent all nuclear energy exports, the Green Party cannot overturn this export just because it opposes nuclear energy. He said that the law that can stop this export is that any nuclear energy export project that may be used for military purposes will be banned. He said: "According to the current situation, the possibility of using this facility for military purposes cannot be absolutely ruled out." Some people in the Green Party believe that this equipment may be used to produce key components of nuclear weapons. Due to the strong opposition of the Green Party, the deal finally fell through.

On October 13th, 23, the China government issued the "China's Policy Document to the EU", which expounded China's policy objectives to the EU and cooperation measures in the next five years. Among them, it requires that "the EU should lift the ban on arms sales to China as soon as possible, so as to clear the way for broadening Sino-EU military technology cooperation." Throughout the European Union, most countries advocate lifting this "anachronistic" ban. Some EU countries still oppose the lifting of the arms embargo against China on the grounds of human rights in China. The German government headed by Schroeder strongly advocated lifting this ban. However, the German Green Party did not agree to lift the arms embargo on China. The opposition of the German Green Party is the Taiwan Province issue. Beatty Koffel said that the Green Party adheres to the "One China" principle, but added: "It is wrong for the EU to lift the embargo against China when the China administration still threatens to use force against Taiwan Province. We insist that the Taiwan Province issue must be resolved by peaceful means. "