The challenge at this moment isn’t to uncover hypocrises – where you were when the U.S. invaded “fill in the country” – among people opposing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but rather to encourage and join them in struggle. It looks like the invasion is taking a deadlier and more dangerous turn, making worldwide opposition all the more important. More than a few on the left here – and the communist movement worldwide – are prisoners of old understandings, old logics, and old reflexive positions – and thus are on both sides of this bloody clash. But such a position is becoming more and more difficult to defend as Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine leaves in its wake more and more dislocation, destruction, and death.
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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.
