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Sam Webb

1,752 posts, 2001–2026
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.
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King and alliances

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…

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Working class power?

To make “working class power” the shorthand definition of 21st socialism reveals a bit of a tin ear, given the the democratic failures and authoritarian excesses of “working class power” in the socialist countries in the 20th century. A broader…

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Tell a story

Socialism if it is going to be attractive to millions can’t simply speak of economic planning, growth rates, and the provision of material goods. It also has to tell a story of a society that expands the boundaries of human…

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From Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter

From Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter (Part 1) In the last 6 weeks, we have witnessed protest actions that have been massive, sustained, multi-racial, and mainly young people. What began in one city, Minneapolis, scaled up in size and across…

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Arc of freedom

In thinking about the arc of the Black Freedom movement, we tend to focus on those moments when the bells of freedom ring the loudest and the promise of freedom seems within reach — the Reconstruction years, the Civil Rights…