The German Greens have a similar, tough less radical system. On one hand, on no post do they have a single top leader - both the party and the fraction are double-headed. On the other hand, there is a strict prohibition of holding multiple offices of different kind: you can be either in the government, or a federal or state parliamentary fraction, or in the party leadership, but not in more than one of these.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

"Progress not by growth but transformation"

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

I strongly wish to switch tomorrow totally to the agricultural model defined in the charter, and changes are already underway to do so; because a non-intensive agriculture will produce less than the one we currently have.

In my opinion, degrowth in general consumption (of non-food items) can make a much larger difference. This is touched several times in the charter, but never explicitly mentioned: build much less but more solid stuff. From computer printers to household applicances, the stuff breaks down (and is expected to break down) far too fast; and thrown away (because it's cheaper to get a new one than to mend it).

Further I disagree about not having to change the lifestyle. We need to consider swapping/mending/lending something as a first option and buying as the last, not the other way around. And, if we want to change the agricultural system, we will have quite another diet.

What does negative growth finally amount to, using the current benchmarks? Use less resources and less energy.   Means, that we have to find other benchmarks where we can "grow"; along the lines of becoming more efficient with less stuff available (Maybe Intelligent Growth :-p   ).

My new quesitn is..will it be another small left party, left of the PS among hundreds of other (well not hundreds but five or six?

I mean it is difficult to create a common platform with other non-communist left?

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

Now all wee need to do is make it a Pan-European party. Another Europe is Possible!

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

Granted that some matters will bore us to death ("calling in your votes, today we are voting on the normalization of green pea sizes in Europe"), but at least if we could submit laws, change law proposals, and refuse laws, through a participative system like in Switzerland, life would be so much better.

On the other hand, this accepts that people are mature enough to make all decisions, when clearly they aren't (example: when the death penalty was abolished in France, a strong majority of the population was still in favour of it ... it took nearly 15 years for this trend to reverse, even though the law had already been passed => this is thus a good example of elected officials actually being more mature than the people).