My Background

I learned Marxism-Leninism mainly from the anti-revisionist, anti-ultra"left" trend that was associated with the Line of March group in the Eighties. I think the theoretical contributions of the journal Line of March to the development of U.S. Marxism remain important today and should be studied carefully. That notwithstanding, I later joined and still work with the Communist Party, U.S.A., primarily because in spite of its revisionism that party includes the largest assembly of genuine revolutionaries in this country. I supported Gus Hall and the leadership elected at the national convention in Cleveland in 1991 because the opposition within the CP was essentially if not overtly social-democratic. I have worked in the labor movement, the U.S. Democratic Party, and peace and solidarity movements, including the anti-apartheid movement and the movement against U.S. intervention in Central America. I visited the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and consider my visits to these socialist and socialist-oriented lands among the political high points of my life.