Sunday, December 21, 2008

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.

New Blog

The point of this blog is to use Marxism-Leninism to analyze the current situation. The goal I support is a society governed in the interests of the working people, not the capitalists. I take the title of this blog, "Real Existing Socialism," from the countries of the former socialist world led by the Soviet Union, whose legacy is worth defending and whose achievements need to be understood and affirmed by countries trying to build real and enduring socialist societies. I am not sure at this point with what frequency I will post; only that I intend to post.