About his businesses

Reach Out And Prod Someone

Newsweek, October 14, 1991

“If we can’t have politically distinct political parties in America, let’s at least have politically distinct long-distance companies,” Barnes says.

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Confessions of a Socialist Entrepreneur

The Washington Monthly, October 1983

SEVEN years ago, at the age of 34, I decided to become a socialist entrepreneur.  It seemed like a logical calling to pursue.  As a jour­nalist, I’d flung my share of arrows at the big corporations.  But if the left rejected corporate capitalism, we had to show there are some workable alternatives.

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