Few institutions exist that don’t show the markings of the long ascendancy of right wing extremism. I doubt if the architects of this noxious political bloc/coalition were familiar with Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, and others of similar mind on the left, but their “long march” through the institutional life of the country to the apex of political power — war of position to a war of movement — would almost make you think that they did.
What makes it worse is that much of the left during this time was trapped in the disabling intellectual grip of the notion that the two parties were essentially the same … tweedledee, tweedledum. Thankfully, in recent years this has begun to change, albeit unevenly and inconsistently.
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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.
