Word: adler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reporter's notebook, my power pen and my stoic journalist expression, prepared for a smooth and meaningless statement from a slick, faceless spokesperson. I waited nervously in line behind some clean-cut first-years buying Expos books and an Eliot House resident buying Maoist literature to talk to Rachael Adler, a senior staff member of Revolution Books...
...Adler was quick with her answer. Revolution Books had failed to pay its taxes...
...didn't know how to deal with sales tax," Adler explained. "We never got around to giving it to the state. We were really busy...
...REVOLUTION BOOKS never bought into Soviet communism, anyway. "It's been phony communism since Krushchev," Adler says. The store was founded by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which subscribes to Mao's version of the doctrine. These people welcomed the collapse of the recent Soviet coup--the hard-liners were "phony" Communists, anyway. The only "real" Communists around are the boldly ideological patriarchs in Beijing and Peru's violent Shining Path guerrillas...
Revolution Books' next battle will not be fought in the Andean hinterlands but in the corridors of the American legal system. The store has hired an attorney, Adler says, and is trying to negotiate payment terms with the state...