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.
The brazen bullying of the Trump administration toward Cuba makes me wistful for the days — the era — of the Soviet Union. It acted as a counterweight to the aggression of U.S. imperialism toward states pursuing a non-capitalist path…
The decision of the Roberts’ Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana that allowed Black people a smidgen of political representation in Congress — similar challenges are going on in other Southern States — should be an obvious and…
In his role as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts evinces a personna that he is above partisan politics, an independent arbiter of the law, nothing more. But he is anything but. A close look at his voting…
The weakening of the left (and the Communist Party in particular) in the auto industry and the UAW was a factor in the making of “The Treaty of Detroit,” in 1950, but not the main one. As I see it,…
