Martin Luther King died too young. Yet his short life was full of meaning, relevance, and inspiration. Though more than a half century has passed since his assassination, he remains the foremost public figure of the 20th and the first decades of the 21st century. While no one since then measures up to King as a visionary, moral leader, champion of justice, and untiring and courageous proponent of a big tent strategy and tactics, each of us in our own way can carry on King’s legacy in trying circumstances that even MLK could not have imagined.
Written by
Sam Webb
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.
