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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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Emotive symbols

To yield the flag, the national anthem, and other “emotive” symbols to the right without a fight is political stupidity. That the Democrats didn’t make that mistake at the just concluded convention is to their credit. I wish more on…

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More trouble than it is worth

Inside the Democratic Party convention were delegates who easily fit into the category of left-progressive. They were delegates representing every state. They obviously don’t understand their presence at the convention as somehow in contradiction to their politics. I wish others…

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Venezuela

“A careful consideration of the evidence, then, suggests that the election results are not just difficult but impossible to believe. Boric is not the only Latin American leader to have expressed major doubts. This has also come from three countries…

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Party of oligarchy?

To say that the Democratic Party is a party of oligarchy or a party in the pocket of the establishment or finance capital seems to me a flight from analytical complexity and thus empty of strategic and tactical insight. Both…

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Not a big fan

I wasn’t a big fan of Bernie’s speech at the DNC. Others will likely disagree, but for me it was all pronouncement but tone deaf to the moment, a bit insensitive and presumptuous, and devoid of humor.