The bellyaching at Debbie Wasserman Schultz continues for her inconsistencies on immigration to the point where her opposition to separations of children from their parents at the border is summarily dismissed.
Which prompted this reply by me to Wasserman’s leftist critics — Lenin wrote a pamphlet about this sort of purist, REVOLUTIONARY politics in the early 1920s. At the time, his arguments didn’t resonate to the degree that he hoped among the super left of his time. Indeed, it took the rise of fascism a decade later to knock some sense into their heads. One would hope that the rise of Trump might serve the same purpose today. But so far that doesn’t appear to be the case.
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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.
