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Sam Webb

1,755 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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A new order

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’.

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A broad cross class coalition

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,…

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Two sides of a single coin

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…

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No sense of hyperbole

The next 4 years will be, to use a phrase of Lincoln, our “Fiery Trial.” I don’t say that with any sense of hyperbole!