Climate science, not to mention the need to set the economy on a self sustaining and equitable trajectory, should tell us that a Green New Deal is long overdue. Its realization, in its robust version, will take something similar to what it took to legislate the New Deal in the 1930s — an aroused and informed public, an engaged labor movement, a multi-racial coalition of the many, and a political realignment at the national level in a progressive and left direction. A big challenge, but within reach.
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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.
