Communiqué to A.N.S.W.E.R. International Party Headquarters
Subject: Washington DC Peace March
FOR RED EYES ONLY
Comrades,
As you know, I traveled to Washington on orders from the ANSWER Central Committee to assess the effectiveness of our long-planned propaganda march and rally.
On Friday afternoon, 23 September, I infiltrated a reactionary dKOS bloggers meeting and planning session. This took place at Capital City Brewery, a decadent bourgeoisie restaurant, as the name suggests. In order to fit in, I was compelled to drink several pints of strong ale, so my recollections are hazy. Despite the presence of top strategists such as Maryscott O' Conner, little planning actually took place. Instead, the Kossacks engaged in clever banter and general merriment, as could be expected from undisciplined capitalist lapdogs.
Continued:
On Saturday, 24 September, I, my wife, and small child (as cover) convened at the rally. We sat through many, many, many hours of inspiring speeches. It should be noted that some attendees allowed their attention to waver through these oratory triumphs. They must be re-educated; a list will follow.
It is with a heavy heart that I must report that the march was not as successful as we had hoped. Despite the best effort of ANSWER, primarily centrists, capitalists, and the bourgeoisie attended the march. Most signs were simplistic calls for the end of the war and petty appeals for Bush's removal. The great banner proclaiming solidarity with our Cuban brothers in revolution, Marxist slogans, and quotations from Chairman Mao, were hardly in evidence. So discouraging was this that we did not stay for the concert, preferring to return home to console ourselves with communist dialectics.
I fear we are facing a propaganda failure of the greatest proportions. The corporate media, tools of the industrialist class, will no doubt distort our message. They will focus on only rich Americans walking with their families, suburban housewives with pink balloons, pranksters wearing Bill Clinton masks, and reverent Statue of Liberty costumary. This will be portrayed as a march of all facets of society, of ordinary people, of democratic Americans practicing free speech, rather than as the parade of the Great Unified Revolutionary Proletariat that we had envisioned.
I strongly recommend that in the future we distance ourselves from groups such as United For Peace and Justice and the pseudo-progressive wing of the Democratic Party. These collaborations only dilute our great Marxist/Leninist message.
Yours in revolution,
Comrade Kristof
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