To understand the terror attack last week, it isn’t necessary to turn Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy to find a predecessor or understand what happened. Just as easily one can go back into our own history. Following the Civil War, Southern Redeemers — bloody counter revolutionists — employed “White Terror” to violently overthrow the democratically constructed and multi-racial Reconstruction governments in the South and proceeded to install a new, whites only political regime throughout the South. It rested on terror, coercion, and the super exploitation of Black people who were stripped of any rights and forced to live in constant fear. It was the U.S. variant of fascism, long before fascism as a word and regime was part of the world’s lexicon and experience.
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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.
