Background and Education
McChesney was born December 22, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Samuel Parker McChesney, an advertising salesman for This Week Magazine, and Edna Margaret "Meg" McChesney (née McCorkle), a nurse. He attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where he studied history and political economy and became a lifelong collaborator and friend of John Bellamy Foster. After college, he worked as a sports stringer for United Press International (UPI), published a weekly newspaper, and in 1979 was the founding publisher of The Rocket, a Seattle-based rock magazine which chronicled the birth of the Seattle rock scene of the late 1980s and 1990s. The creation of The Rocket is credited as the beginning of the Seattle rock scene by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A lifelong sports fan, McChesney writes about professional basketball for the RealGM website under the name Elrod Enchilada.
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