Reading Martin Luther King’s, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community,” and one thing I find striking is his insistence on the building of a majoritarian, multi-racial movement. Figuring prominently in this respect was, in his words, the Black, labor, liberal alliance. King had no truck for narrow, small circle politics, even when he understood the sentiment, even frustration, behind them. We would do well to take this approach to heart today, obviously adapting it to today’s terrain of struggle and particularities.
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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.
