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.
A class approach and analysis that become inflexibly tied at the hip to one’s ideological construction of class, working class, and class struggle is bound to run into trouble. I speak from my own experience and reading. What got me…
At one time I thought that racialized advantages accruing to white workers were momentary, of small consequence, and would dissolve in the face of the unifying imperatives of class struggle, class unity, and class ideology. But I was wrong. First,…
I would give Nancy Pelosi an “A” for her prosecution of the impeachment inquiry. Her sense of timing, of shifts in mass sentiments, and of the imperative of broad democratic and people’s unity is superb. She’s got the art of…
I am impressed with the deep and broad bench of able legislators and politicians in the Democratic Party. In watching MSNBC, I find myself marveling at the many and new faces, especially women and people of color, who are in…
As this article makes clear, William Barr is s religious extremist too. He’s a Catholic and it is interesting to note that a good number of right wing extremists in position of power are Catholics, not least on the Supreme…