I don't know whether it's possible for someone to hate Ronald Reagan too much, but if it is, Mark Ames may be the only person to have figured out how.

Anxious? Me too. About what? A lot of things, as I'm sure is the case with you, dear reader. Would you like some confidence rooted in action, not abstraction? Allow me to offer this formulation: materialist confidence.

Following the order of Sheriff Beck, for the first time in years the saloons were close up last Sunday both front doors and back, also the edict has gone forth that on week-days they must all be closed at eleven o’clock at night. This is a complete departure from the traditions and customs in Hancock.

Excerpts from Chapter 2 of Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds: LET US NOW PRAISE REVOLUTION

We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight. Every Communist and revolutionary should take up this weapon.

I am a proletarian. That is a landless, toolless worker who works four-fifths of his time for a boss in order that I may have the opportunity to work one-fifth of the time for myself. I do not do so for the fun of it, but because I have to.