Durrutti's Tale:
The Commie and the Treehugger

One time, Saint Durrutti was at a forest protection rally in Seattle. Being a big city, there were half a dozen different communist parties lurking around the fringes, selling newspapers and trying to recruit the treehuggers.

Now, Durrutti was bored as hell. He'd been to some rallies in his time. He'd heard all the speeches , and could give most of them in his sleep. So he took to wandering around and talking to the communists.

He approached them all with the same simple question: "What makes *your* communist party different from all the others?"

Invariably they gave the same response: "Only our party truly represents the American working class." And how did they represent them? "Well, we have this newspaper. Would you like to buy a copy?"

Finally, running out of interest, Durrutti approached the guy from the Revolutionary Communist Party. How, he asked, was their party any different?

The RCP guy looked Saint Durrutti in the eye and said, "We're the only party that advocates an immediate armed revolution to overthrow the government of the United States."

Now we're getting somewhere, Durrutti thought. And so how, he asked, did they plan to accomplish this?

"Well, we've got this newspaper," the guy said. "Would you like to buy a copy?"

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