I met James Raines in 2011 when we both participated in a writing workshop held by the People’s World (online) newspaper. The People’s World, the too often banal and arid grandchild of the Daily Worker, is the official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA. As active members, James and I had come to Chicago to […]
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The Impotence of the Socialist Movement
The compulsion to outline the central problems of the Socialist movement has brewed inside me for years. Having been witness to several events, and a member of several organizations of the modern movement, I have come to see its sad state. Great upheaval was and still is possible given the Great Recession, but our struggle, […]
The Sensible Socialist 