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Listening to Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown on Morning Joe yesterday makes me think that Medicare for All is too risky a plunge at this moment. Don’t see how union workers and others in the battleground states, where the race appears…
A strategy for progressive and left activists in this election cycle that accents upping the programmatic ante at every turn, turns the building of the “power of the left” into the foremost consideration, and insists on litmus tests to determine…
What we can glean from last night’s election results in Virginia and Kentucky is that only an expansive and diverse coalition can defeat Trump and his Republican gang. If this is so then the overarching task between now and next…
White skin privilege isn’t a myth, but a material reality at the “point of production” and far beyond. And this material reality, among other reasons, gives racism its durability and persistence. Back in the day, we (in the communist party)…
A class approach and analysis that become inflexibly tied at the hip to one’s ideological construction of class, working class, and class struggle is bound to run into trouble. I speak from my own experience and reading. What got me…