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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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Come on up to the rising

In the last three weeks, we have witnessed protest actions that were massive, creative, sustained, multi-racial, worldwide, and the doing of the young. What began in one city, Minneapolis, scaled up in size and across space at astonishing speed. Small…

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Hard to imagine

The fish may rot from the head, but only to begin with. Eventually the rest of the fish rots. It’s hard to imagine what 4 more years of Trump would do to the federal government and democracy.

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The power of racist ideology

The fact that the main architects of racism are found in high places as well as inordinately accrue the advantages in economic wealth and political power from this deeply and historically embedded system of super exploitation and oppression shouldn’t be…

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White advantage and privilege

At one time I thought that racialized advantages accruing to white workers would dissolve in the face of the unifying imperatives of class struggle, class unity, and class ideology. But I was wrong. First, racialized advantages accruing to white working…

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Fever pitch

As election day draws closer, and with the triple crises — health, economic, and political — still awaiting resolution and no abatement in the popular demand for radical criminal justice reform and other anti-racist measures in sight, the clash between…