Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, "The conditions for the possibility of social movements have been called into question in the twenty-first century." And I said to myself, my god, a society in history without social movements, for me, is very difficult to live in.

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.