Sam Friedman

Sam Friedman is longtime anti-Stalinist socialist and the author of Teamster Rank and File and A Precious Residue. He has written widely on the AIDS crisis and on Russia and Ukraine.

Articles From This Author

Sam Friedman,
Mary Jirmanus Saba

February 16, 2024 Length: 4441 words

The Left and COVID: A response to Mike Haynes

Summary: Mike Haynes’s article “The Left, COVID, and the Roads Not Taken” aims to skewer the Left for its failures during the COVID pandemic.[1] In this article, the authors first go through his argum…

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Sam Friedman

December 3, 2023 Length: 254 words

The Two Souls of Jewishness

Summary: If there are two worlds in every country, surely there are in each religion, culture, and ethnicity. – the Editors

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Sam Friedman

November 5, 2023 Length: 137 words

“Shame’s Echo” Poem by Sam Friedman

Summary: A poem relevant to the genocide in Gaza; Previously published in Sam Friedman. Grief and Rage: An American Jew’s Poems on Palestine. Central Jersey Coalition against Endless War. 2015. –Edit…

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Sam Friedman

November 5, 2023 Length: 1111 words

What a Nurses’ Strike Says About the Meaning of Work Under Capitalism

Summary: The strike has led many of the nurses to discuss the ways that under staffing, paperwork, and the bottom-line efficiency fixation that are inherent in capitalist organizations eat into the qu…

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Sam Friedman

September 18, 2023 Length: 862 words

Poems of the Living Dialectic

Summary: A series of 7 poems on the dialectic — Editors

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Sam Friedman

July 12, 2023 Length: 2505 words

Learning from the ‘COVID War’

Critique of the liberal establishment COVID Crisis Group—on need for labor and community activism and on how capitalism fuels pandemics; first appeared in Harvard Law School blog Bill of Health, July…

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Sam Friedman,
Peter Hudis

April 11, 2023 Length: 5435 words

Dialogue on Marx’s Concept of Organization and its Meaning for Today

Summary: This discussion in February 2023 on the relation between spontaneity, organization and philosophy takes off from the chapter, “Political Organization,” in The Marx Revival, edited by Marcello…

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Sam Friedman

April 10, 2023 Length: 273 words

Two Poems on the Alternative

Summary: Two poems on possible futures and the alternative to capitalism — Editors

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A nighttime birds-eye view of buildings in Kiev.

Sam Friedman

January 25, 2022 Length: 189 words

“As Putin and Biden bluster threats of war, and so-called antiwar activists echo imperial lies…”

A long-time socialist’s poem reminiscing about friends and experiences in Kyiv in the shadow of the threat of war in Ukraine. — Editors

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Books written by this author

Sam Friedman

A Precious Residue: Poems that ponder efforts to spark a working class socialism in the 1970s and after