social democracy, in its radical communist version or its soft version.
What I find paradoxical, more so than contradictory, is his reference to modern(ity). It could be read as a kind of atavistic endorsement of imperial appetites for "progress."
From the start, it was possible for them [Greens] to take up a modern discourse.
Or read as the "base case" which a Green political impulse dissembles. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
