Remember communism? It collapsed shortly after I began teaching, thus forcing me to revise my lecture notes even before the ink had dried. It turns out that the Communist Party is still around south of the border and it's toned down its goal from world conquest to, well, survival. A few days ago the party, boasting a grand total of 3,000 members, met in Chicago. Why so few supporters?
Mr [Sam] Webb, a former factory worker from Maine who has worked full time for the party since 1976, concedes that "people don't naturally gravitate towards" the party because they associate Communism with the former Soviet Union.
What a shame. People can be so unfair, can't they?
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