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 insights on his own political views concerning the renewal of left politics. He states that his ideas of the industrial world are negative due to witnessing his father's former employer. He says that his political thinking was influenced by the McCarthyism in the mid-1950s during the Soviet communism cold war. He sees communism as a threat to the U.S. and its interests, which values freedom, democracy and social progress.