When I was at MIT, I had to write a paper on the philosophy of Dworkin and needed one of his books. I couldnt find it in my library or in any of the bookstores in Cambridge and needed it that night. I went to the front of the Revolution Bookstore, thought about going in because I figured they had to have this book because Dworkin is a big socialist, and then saw their front display and ran away. I was scared for my life and disgusted because I thought I would be murdered. The display advocated murdering the president and I happened to have a Bush button on my backpack at the time.
I walk down to Central Square maybe once a fortnight and I just crack up everytime I see the Marxist Center for Education. Have never seen anyone go in it though :). Between there and the bookstore is the People's Republic bar that looks like a wistful hark back to the Soviet Union and PRC or a parody. Could never tell which.
"Well, there’s millions of people who hate that shit, too," she says. "But we’re gonna be doing some stuff this summer, going into those red zones. Getting into it. All these people who were voting for Bush, they were never confronted that Bush lied about the war. Kerry never really challenged that. We’re gonna challenge that." (George Bryant says there’ll even be room for truck-driving red-state Bible-thumpers when the revolution comes. "I think we’d have to have a place for them within the framework, debating with them, giving them space.")
They are comedians also!
Last time I went inside Revolution Books was seven years ago, with my socialist-sympathizing friends. However, it was a joke even to them. Only went to the People's Republic once. Kind of disturbing. I don't think people would find a Third Reich bar with Nazi posters on the walls very amusing. And yet, for the communists...