The protests, denouncing the murder-execution of George Floyd, have gone global. People are marching far beyond our shores. The world for many reasons has become smaller and more interconnected. Information and images travel at instantaneous speed to a global audience. In the first of his magisterial books on 19th century Europe, Eric Hobsbawm, one of the great historians of the 20th century, remarks that the citizens of Seville only learned about the French Revolution 6 weeks months after the event. How different the world is today!
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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.
