Red Love by David Evanier

Author:David Evanier [David Evanier]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: na
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Antonio attended a meeting at which Mush Snitkin, district organizer of the Young Communist League, spoke about the “treacherous role organized religion plays in the lives of the workers from the cradle to the grave.” At this meeting, held to replace bourgeois christenings, five newborn babies of Party members received their names and were enrolled in the Young Pioneers. There was a lot of howling and crying, but afterward there was a dance and what the Party called “general jollifications.”

Antonio Carelli’s father wanted him to learn how to speak to crowds the way he did. When Antonio was eleven, his father picked him up and put him on a soapbox at the park where the workers gathered on weekends. Antonio began his memorized speech, but in the middle he became confused and forgot his lines. To save the situation, he shouted, “In conclusion, comrades and fellow workers, don’t forget Patrick Henry’s words: ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’”

He noticed the smiles on the faces of the workers, and then he jumped off the soapbox into his father’s outstretched arms.

At the Young Pioneer school Antonio observed Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthday by learning what frauds they really were. The teacher was Mush Snitkin. The Y.C.L.’s district organizer, Mush, was from New York City. Antonio worshiped Mush, who was handsome and wore bell-bottoms like the sailors wore. Mush’s sister Clara was a legendary leader of the Gastonia textile workers’ strike in North Carolina.

Mush spoke under a banner that said SMASH THE BOY SCOUTS. “Washington was not the popular idol bourgeois historians now paint him to be,” Mush declared. “Not at all. Let’s look at the record, comrades. He commanded the revolutionary armies, spilling the blood of artisans and poor farmers so that his own class in the colonies could rule. Before, the British landowners and capitalists in America could exploit the workers, farmers, toilers, and Negroes. Now the rich merchants and planters could do it on their own. This bastard Washington was the richest land-and slave-owner in America. Can you compare such a bourgeois lackey with such working-class leaders as Stalin, Lenin, and Marx? Come on now!”

The kids laughed and applauded. They all wore the same flaming red mufflers. Antonio fingered his proudly.

“As president,” Mush said, “his policies were consistently for the benefit of the ruling class. The heavy taxes for the profits of the rich produced revolt among the masses, including the Whiskey Rebellion by the farmers in Pennsylvania against the whiskey tax. Washington sent troops against the farmers, just like Roosevelt is doing today.

“And Lincoln,” Mush continued, “he wasn’t even opposed to slavery, comrades. His aim was to save the capitalist union, not to free Negroes. The bastard used the slaves as a pawn to weaken the Southern landowners and strengthen the Northern capitalists.”

Mush then talked about how Stalin and Lenin led the fight for workers’ democratic rights, including the fight for land and the full equality of Negroes.

“The very fact,” Mush said, “that the children have to struggle in

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.