"I think for me the struggle to defend the truth is a precondition for defending our democracy, and the struggle to defend our democracy is a precondition for taking the effective action that needs to be taken in order to meet the climate crisis in a serious way and turn it around." —U.S.
The party remains stalled largely because it's tightly limited in how far most of its members will go in challenging the economic power structure.
I also asked Noam Chomsky, long one of the world's most forceful voices confronting capitalism's exploitation of people and the Earth. He was blunt:"I've been hearing this all my life. In childhood, it was the squabbling between the two main left parties in Germany. The Communists, religiously following Stalin's orders, condemned the Social Democrats as 'social fascists,' no different from the Nazis.