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.
This isn’t a socialist moment in a strategic sense, but it is a moment in which out of the interlocking crises, disrupting our lives, sometimes in deadly ways, our society can emerge more inclusive, our economy more just and sustainable,…
Usually lies contain a small grain of truth. But Trump’s lies in the midst of this pandemic fail that test. There’s no truth to be found in them. Nothing but pure lies. Up to now his allergy to the truth…
Just heard that teachers in a small town west of Kingston, where I live, organized a car caravan and drove through the town where they teach. Their horns were peeping the day away!
I read Emily St. John Mandel’s novel “Station Eleven” a year or so ago and thought at the time that it was a wonderful read, but the story line of a devastating pandemic seemed a bit of a stretch. The…
