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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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Volcker announces a new era

I was in Detroit, when Paul Volcker as chairman of the Fed weaponized its monetary instruments to throw the economy into a deep recession/depression. The auto industry and the traditional centers of auto production like Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, etc., felt…

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Good analysis, but …

Good analysis. But I would add that the decision to move forward on impeachment not only fires up the base, but also in the course of this fight the Democrats have captured the moral high ground — no one more…

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For whom does the boom toll?

Word is that the economy is booming. But one has to ask: Booming for whom? These gross economic figures don’t capture what is happening in the nooks and crannies of day to day life where people live, work, and worry.…

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Counterrevolution past and present

Not long after the guns fell silent on the battlefields of the Civil War, an experiment in interracial democracy and inequality in the states of the Confederacy began. But this experiment, as noble, just, and necessary as it was, lasted…

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Missed Opportunities

In his first speech upon leaving federal prison in the mid-1950s, Gene Dennis, the General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time, said that the main problems facing the party were dogmatism in its thinking and sectarianism in its…