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.
Now is not the time to retreat into narrow ways of politically thinking and acting. Just as it was necessary to assemble a broad cross class people’s coalition this fall if we had any hope of defeating Trump and Trumpism,…
Election analysis should be less a blame game and more a sober effort to understand the many layers of a complex and many leveled process that in the end left a many layered people’s coalition and many of its candidates…
Machiavelli: ‘There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things’.
Now is not the time to retreat into narrow ways of politically thinking and acting. Just as it was necessary to assemble a broad cross class people’s coalition this fall if we had any hope of defeating Trump and Trumpism,…
We can’t forget that tens of millions — some voted for Kamala, others for Trump, some didn’t vote at all — will feel the negative weight of a second Trump term in one way or another. Such an understanding gives…
