> The Socialist Party announced the creation of a
> not-for-profit corporation, the American Socialist
> Foundation, which would serve as an educational
> foundation and think tank for the party and the
> broader democratic socialist movement. "We like to
> think of this as our Cato Institute," said Greg Pason,
> the Socialist Party's National Secretary. "With this
> new foundation we can hold conferences, publish books
> and issue studies and reports on a variety of issues
> from an inclusive socialist perspective."
Wow! I can't wait to see the wall of socialist heros when they build a CATO-like headquarters building. [If you ever visit CATO's building, go downstairs and look at the bronze plaques on the wall that feature famous libertarians]
Frankly, I don't understand why anybody would want to compare themselves to CATO. Their public functions suck.
I don't belong to any Party, but we did get word today that our anarchist NGO is now official. ;-)
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INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE
An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."
(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).