Happy St Patrick’s Day and to the memory of the Easter Rising of 1916.
Got an early start – 7am – to the festivities today. Was among the first patrons at the Inn Place in Royal Oak Michigan. Joined by long time friend John Rummel. The beer, burgers, and music were good.
Below is a collaboration between the Chieftains and Carolina Chocolate.
“Exploratory thinking on economic stagnation, non-traditional labor and points of strategic engagement” first appeared on PoliticalAffairs.net on May 28, 2014. Read it on PoliticalAffairs.net.
This article is based on a report to the National Board of the Communist Party USA.
Several months ago Lawrence Summers, a major economic thinker in establishment circles and leading operative in the Clinton and Obama administrations, in a short speech to the International Monetary Research Conference made some startling observations:
“We have all agreed,” Summers said, “… that a remarkable job was done in containing the 2007-2008 crisis; that an event that (was) worse than the fall of 1929 and the winter of 1930, ended up in a way that bears very little resemblance to the Great Depression.”
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world, to which I aim to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. I also teach online classes, but 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. I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014. While I grew up in Maine and currently live in New York City, my politically formative years were spent in Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received my MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
