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.
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.
Elon Musk isn’t a rogue, a freelancer, a one man show. He is doing the dirty work for someone else. Don’t be fooled and think he’s acting on his own. The leader of this constitutional crisis and power grab resides…
Time for massive resistance marches in every major city and town, initiated by labor and the larger anti-Trump, anti-MAGA coalition! Much like the city by city mass marches in the early days of the first Trump presidency.
