Edited sentence: Critics from Camejo's former socialist circles are disdainful of Camejo's abandonment of the socialism of his youth, accusing him of abandoning a substantive critique of capitalism and its connection to war, inequality, and attacks on democracy.For his part, Camejo unequivocally stated that the Green Party was not and never would be socialist, repeating his commitment to providing solutions to practical issues above and beyond the need for ideological purity.While Camejo might have abandoned a committment to the principles of socialism as he amassed his millions of dollars in wealth, Camejo's political practice within the Green Party has been characterized by ultra leftist authoritarianism where he and his clique establish arbitrary criteria of legitimacy and apply that to their perceived opponents in the style of Stalin, Lenin or Trotsky