Re: [Marxism] The Road to Rightville

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

howard beeth wrote:
> 
> During the late 1970s and early 1980s in Houston, Texas, it was occasionally 
> the practice of some members/supporters of the Revolutionary Communist Party 
> (RCP), a Mao/Stalinist org, to drag a pig's head attached to a rope or chain 
> behind them during pop front demos, including one large, well-attended demo 
> down Main Street. I can remember the pig's head bump-bump-bumping along the 
> asphalt. It was a real attention-getter. My own cost/benefit analysis of this 
> tactic was heavy on the costs and lite on the benefits. So sorry, Mark, the 
> pig's head legend was real enough in the Lone Star State.

The story (which probably was a deliberate lie by its originator) did
not involve *A* pig's head pulled along on the street but pig headS
mounted on stickS (PLURAL) at a demonstration ON CAMPUS. Incidentally,
Jeffery  Hart, quoted in the article, makes the WSJ editorial page seem
like an article from the Nation. He is a really slimy piece of work.

Carrol


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