According to many communist parties (including the cpusa), the eurocommunist movement in the 1970s was nothing but rot and opportunism. But we were wrong as we were about many things.
Admittedly, Eurocommunism didn’t get everything right, but it was more right than the larger movement of which it was a dissenting part. I agree with the writer that its legacy retains positive relevance to the left in the contemporary world, a world besigned by cascading, entwined, and existential moral, social and political crises.
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Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
