In 1992, a young man made an impassioned speech to the town council of Ithaca, New York. Brought up on the relatively moderate socialist wing of the Democratic Party, his views were in many ways at odds with the views of the increasingly vocal black Left. But his arguments were compelling, and if he was right, his ideas would represent a real challenge to a party that was fast becoming an extreme movement.The young man was Norman Thomas, the son of Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas and grandson of the famous socialist newspaper editor and crusader for peace and workers rights, Eugene V. Debs. As an