David Green, secretary and last dues-paying member of the Socialist
Workers Party in Youngstown, was ecstatic hear a report on NPR that included
interviews with workers from the local G.M. plant who complained that the elite does
not understand the working class. “I
couldn’t believe it! The last time I
tried to hand out flyers there some guy called me a ‘pinko fag’ and knocked
over my card table while his friends just stood there and laughed. That was just a year ago!” Green realizes that he needs to instill a
revolutionary spirit into this rudimentary class consciousness while it’s
fresh. “They’re not going to master the
dialectic right away, so I thought I’d form a reading circle where we went over
the classics – the Manifesto, of
course, maybe Anti-Dühring, or Anti-Sanders, as I call it.” Feeling no need to explain this reference,
Green looked through his papers for the address to On the Barricades Press, to
see what they had in stock. “I knew this
day would come! I just printed out these
flyers to announce the first meeting.”
Notified that the meeting time conflicted with the Super Bowl, thus
would probably attract few actual workers, Green’s enthusiasm was
undiminished. “Great! This will show me who the most conscious
workers are. Our Central Committee will be set.”
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