Posted on 07/03/2005 12:41:16 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Boston communists say they want a revolution. Now they just have to agree on how to bring it about.
A pimple-faced teen with Coke-bottle glasses and a self-satisfied smirk stands near the doorway of Harvard Squares tiny Revolution Books. Hes skinny and draped in a large black T-shirt adorned with a full-color portrait of Joseph Stalin, the iron-fisted despot responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of millions.
"Stalin is my friend," the kid says, at once cockily and geekily, as he stares at the floor.
"Yeah, yeah, but we can do better than Stalin," says the guy behind the counter who, even though its hot, is wearing a heavy sweater under his SERVE THE PEOPLE T-shirt. "We can do a lot better. You can have socialism without suppressing intellectualism." His name is George Bryant, and hes a volunteer at this decades-old bastion of unabashed communist agitation, a bookstore that, amazingly, still survives in the ever-more-corporatized "Peoples Republic of Cambridge." Bryant gestures toward a stack of books and DVDs from the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), whose chairman, Bob Avakian, is "really offering a deep critique of America and an in-depth defense of communism in a sense reinventing it without throwing out the whole."
The kid and his friends, high-schoolers obviously flirting with jejune hard leftism, seem noncommittal and a little nonplussed. "What would you guys think about taking a bunch of these?" Bryant asks, offering a stack of the Maoist RCP weekly newspaper, Revolution, for them to proselytize with. The kids demur, and they leave.
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I know, it's so true. I thought I could get a job there, but I couldn't crunch the numbers to make it work. It's funny to hear people who are dems there complain about the cost of living and jobs and illegal immigrants, but don't dare whisper that perhaps their support of the dems is at least part of the problem. It's humurous to hear some of the liberal talk radio on our drive, some of the callers are so close to conservative thought, yet they claim to hate it, and the dem system they worship is what is taxing them out of existence, but their 'solutions', when pressed, almost always involve more taxes.
It's easy to see who is taking those jobs, at least in some neighborhoods, that regular hard working Massachusan middle classers have to give up and leave - the illegal or barely legal immigrant. They afford the high rents by sharing living quarters with many others and do the work, but neither seems to realize it's the death of the middle class and the upper class Kerry's will just continue to lord it over whoever is left to do their 'dirty work'. Sadly, some of these immigrants may think they can achieve the 'American' dream, only to later be caught short when they can never rise above menial, low wage labor, once the middle class is really gone and the uppers rely on them to clean up. Ironically, my own rural western PA area has seen some migration of these Mass state middle class folks who come here to my area for the labor jobs.
Also many movies have Spanish audio and subtitles, and I reflexively check the jackets of prospective dvds to see if it has them. Probably not the best way to learn Spanish, but I am learning at a respectable rate. I should add that I took four semesters of Spanish in college and also subscribe to Tiempos del Mundo a Spanish-language weekly newsmagazine. At this rate, I figure I should be able to speak Spanish fluently within five years. Hopefully only five years that is.
I was thinking of putting the quote from "Revolution" up...Speaking of Lennon, a conservative talk host in Boston was pointing out how "Imagine" sounds like a plea for one world government, and so on (imagine no countries...imagine no religion, I wonder if you can...imagine no possessions). Of course I remember one of the tongue-in-cheek "Letters _From_
The Editors" in National Lampoon that went like this:
Dear Sirs:
Imagine no possessions. What a terrible, terrible thought.
Yoko Ono
New York City
:)
Wow. The taking things away from you for the common good comment (or it paraphrase) is spooky given the SCOTUS ruling. Not that I needed anything else from Hillary to know she is a revolutionary of the red kind.
>>Translation: We commies don't want to or have to work for a living.
The so-called "worker's party" is really a "non-worker's party" just as Bubba meant "_non-working families_" when he talked of "working families". Welfare to the max.
"Sounds like"? What else would it be?
Lennon himself admitted that he was taking a new strategy with "Imagine". Rather than being loud and in-your-face revolutionary with his music, he'd "sugar-coat" it instead. It seemed rather effective.
I read the lyrics to that song before ever having heard it. It reads a little like a leftist protest march (a la "Give Peace a Chance").
>>"Right now were living in relative affluence, but I think theres going to be a period where theres economic and political crisis. The economys gonna shit the bed sooner or later..."
Wishful thinking for them. They WANT it to happen. It really stinks for them when things go well.
>>It's no secret among their leadership that revolution CANNOT occur as long as there is a strong middle class.
Which is why they want to bring down the middle class and upper class, and have hard working people forfeit much of
their salaries to a big government. The joys of a "classless society".
The funniest part about the "spoof" website Communists for Kerry was...in reality, Commies WERE for him! The best comedy always has a healthy dose of truth in it.
And conservatives are labeled as extremists?
>>It's no secret among their leadership that revolution CANNOT occur as long as there is a strong middle class.
Exactly.
By the way, in some ways "This Land is Your Land" is a great song (the beauty of our land), but how many people know that _avowed Commie_ Woody Guthrie wrote the following verse in that song?
"As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "Private Property"
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me."
(they hate the idea of being able to own property, one of the great concepts of our Republic)
If these kids really wanted to "rebel", they'd all become staunch, died in the wool CONSERRVATIVES. But that would take brains, guts, and work. So instead, these morons playact at being stinking Commies.
Spot on!
bttt
How do they manage to pay the rent? It is quite a pricy area and a lot of fringe business were driven out by high expenses.
At one time, the KGB and the CPUSA used to fund this kind of stuff, but I doubt they still do.
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