Chapter I: An End Is a New Beginning: A. A Personal Political Journey: Confessions of the Once and Still Committed.

The article offers the author's confessions regarding his experience on the renewal of a left politics. He says that his early idea on politics was greatly influenced by the mid-1950s McCarthyism. He used to think that communism was a threat to the U.S. and its interest. He mentions that his thinking on the business world was quite negative.