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.
The traditional wisdom that capitalists prefer democratic government to autocracy and fascism contains some truth, but it doesn’t mean that under certain conditions they won’t gravitate to the strongman leader who has the temerity to attack the working class and…
Trump dangerously rewards Russian aggression in his embrace of Putin, while at the same time, blaming Zelensky in a reversal of facts for the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Observing Trump’s posture, nerves are likely frayed in the capitals of…
In diversity lies justice, a common humanity and the now fragile hope of a better future. The assumption that only white men in particular and white people in general are capable of ruling society, the state, and the workplace finds…
Neither Elon Musk nor anyone else in the Trump administration is clamoring to defund the Pentagon where the waste and corruption is a poorly kept secret.
