JOHN Porter's criticism of the Greens (Letters, January 11) was simplistic. There are a few utopian eco-sects who dream about living in the equivalent of a subsistence peasant economy, but this is not the aim of mainstream Greens.
Where the Greens err is in thinking that they can eat their organic rice and have it; that is, think they can have the profit-system but without the problems - social, economic and environmental - that it necessarily throws up.
Only production for use, not for profit, can solve these problems.
BRIAN LIVESEY (member, Socialist Party of Great Britain), Belfield Road, Accrington.
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