American jails and prisons do not deliver justice. Instead, they deliver revenge and create a toxic social environment. They hurt every human with any connection to the “cage,” and create more problems than they solve. They carry not only a high monetary cost, but they are a drain on the human heart and soul. Other…

During 2016, I wrote an article entitled “Explaining Marxian Engaged Buddhism” for The Secular Buddhist Association. The article reworked thoughts previously offered in The Socialist. Both articles provided a strategy for “engaged” Buddhists wishing to use Marxian theory to inform political activities, while avoiding inconsistency with Buddhist practice.  The central issue concerns Buddhism’s disapproval of…

Part 2 “The Debate” How Do We Get To Socialism? How we bring about a socialist society has been debated throughout time and is still being debated until this very day. I would argue we have to replace the capitalist system itself with a socialist one, but how that happens is still unknown.  I am…

Part 1: The Definition Socialism has been a hot topic as of late. As a self-identified socialist for twenty years and someone who was active in an independent socialist political party for most of that time, I have a lot to say about it. One thing that has bothered me lately is how many times…

Women have no obligation to be “nice” to men. Women don’t owe men anything. There is absolutely a place for anger of women and it is totally justified given how women are treated (mostly by men). However, what there is not a place for is dehumanization, and calling all men ”trash” is just that.  We…

I was born to a Latin-American father and an African-American mother. (For perspective, her birth certificate identified her as ‘negro.’). Racism does affect everyone, even between minority groups in the melting pot that is the D.C. area. Even as a child, I was told by some Latino classmates that I didn’t count among them. In…

  Joe Hill and I had tea He let his biscuits soak They say America is free Man how they love to joke Ask Sacco and Vanzetti Ask Red Cloud and Crazy Horse And the way I see Is things are getting worse I said “Joe why ain’t you dead?” Righteousness is like Love my friend Laughed…