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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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Gracias a la Vida

In these times in which so much seems to hang in balance, this song sung by the incomparable Mercedes Sosa resonates in a different, but still poignant way. Gracias a la Vida Mercedes Sosa Thanks to life, which has given…

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Neither radical nor cutting edge

For some on the left the fight against right wing authoritarian rule, centered in the White House and Republican Party, ranks for the time being a notch or two below the struggle against neoliberalism, represented by the Democratic Party “Establishment” — read…

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It’s torture

Watching Trump at these daily briefings is mental and hair pulling torture. When asked a question he can’t answer, with no shame or hesitation, he makes things up, invents reality, attacks the press. It’s not simply scary. It’s criminal in…

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Life surprises

To think that we spent so much time studying the internal contradictions and crisis tendencies of global capitalism —there are books, studies, and papers galore by many scholars and think tanks — and then, to the surprise of nearly all…

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No simple highway

“There is no road, no simple highway between the dawn and the dark of the night.” A Great Song that the Greatful Dead brought into our lives, or at least some of us.