A left that can’t speak of the necessity of defeating Trump without invariably reminding you that it is also committed to going toe to toe with centrists and neoliberals in the Democratic Party makes me wonder if anything has been learned from the experience of 2016.
At this moment, there will surely be competition between the various trends in the Democratic Party, but the overarching necessity of broad unity in the Democratic Party and the diverse democratic coalition opposing Trump should be the sauce that everyone swims in and gives voice to, even in this phase of the elections process. And yet, this doesn’t come out of the mouths of many on the left. Not good.
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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.
