> My answer to a woman walking around the apartment
> asking a type of person, which apparently includes me,
> if they're interested in subscribing to a Marxist
> newspaper was "no". Not that I don't want a Marxist
> paper, just that I don't want one enough to pay. But,
> as a former prof once said: "Living in Africa (don't
> remember the nation), we were all Marxists not
> because we knew his idealogy well, but because he
> was banned. Then we finally got a hand on his work,
> wrapped in brown paper bag, and read it and it was
> then that we realized: this is the biggest pile of crap
> I've ever read."

When people would ask if I want a copy of the Socialist Times, I used to tell them that I was strictly a Revolutionary Worker reader, imagining some Seattle Weekly/Stranger rivalry. But one time the guy answered back, "Dude, that hasn't been published in like six months." Now I just shake my head, no.