I believe the progressive and left movements should have early on weighed in vocally and massively in support of the main progressive initiatives – especially the Build Back Better and Voting Rights bills – of the Biden administration. But we didn’t. We sat on our hands for the most part. There were no mass outpourings for these bills. So let’s not now blame Biden or Schumer or Pelosi for the present legislative impasse in Congress. It lies elsewhere: the GOP for sure. Manchin and Sinema of course. And there’s us. Notwithstanding all our talk of the importance of mass actions, we haven’t so far delivered in a practical sense.
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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.
