Name that Cult-of-Personality?
September 16, 2013 3:37 PM Subscribe
What is the cult-like communist organization based in possibly (but not definitely) Chicago which has a fairly slick newspaper (but isn't "Socialist Worker") operation featuring inspiring words from a "dear leader" type with a neatly trimmed beard?
Response by poster: Bob Avakian and the Revolutionary Communists it is! I don't know why I couldn't remember them...
posted by ennui.bz at 3:42 PM on September 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by ennui.bz at 3:42 PM on September 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
I have always remembered them because I read an anecdote in a zine once about how someone thought their leader's name was "Babavakian" - like Joe Babavakian or something - and that he was from the USSR or the Eastern Bloc somewhere. Apparently this is because RCP members always refer to him by his full name.
I met a nice woman from the RCP at a conference once - a lawyer. She had sort of a diffident personality, though, and that gave me the sense that the whole RCP thing was about bolstering the courage of her convictions.
posted by Frowner at 3:44 PM on September 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
I met a nice woman from the RCP at a conference once - a lawyer. She had sort of a diffident personality, though, and that gave me the sense that the whole RCP thing was about bolstering the courage of her convictions.
posted by Frowner at 3:44 PM on September 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
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posted by Frowner at 3:38 PM on September 16, 2013