I AM A COMMUNIST
TIM BARRUS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. You have to scope the lay of the land before the demonstration begins, not after.
I am a communist. I write. Communism is rooted in the past. Take a closer look. Marx was Jewish. His sense of community is evident in everything he writes. Communism is dead, discredited, but I am very much alive. Ideas, too, are hard to kill completely. It is easier to marginalize them, and me. Who do you read that is a communist. No one. My voice is slapped around every day. I did get a Most Notable Book from the New York Times. But to say that book, far more controversial than anyone could possibly believe, was easy to publish is obscene. I had to change my name. I have written for the New York Times. But do you think Dean Baquet would even consider publishing an avowed communist, Organizer, Act Up Protestor who not only writes but puts his body where his big mouth is.
Different name again.
Socialist is a little more acceptable.
Communist makes people run for the hills.
Because I have sources who are not unlike I am, who attend demonstrations, and meetings as to how to guide those protests, I am canceled by mainstream media.
Twitter has reciprocity not a lack of dialogue.
DEMONSTRATION ORGS INFILTRATED BY DEA is not a headline you will read. Because I covered it. A very dark story. You will never read it. One word. Chicago. The relationship between ideology, human beings, and blood. The reader pays when listening to the same people, the same voices, every day. I could reinvent myself again just by writing as a liberal, but I am not a liberal. I am a communist.