Friends of Spartacus Youth Club is
a node of the communist network operating on college campuses across
the United States. The Boston University node, which meets in the
GSU building, was set up by leader Albert L. Sargis (BU) Ret.
2005 CAS Prof. 17 years. Being also a co-director of the
(usually closed) Center For
Marxist Education in
Central Square Cambridge, MA, he opened the door to communist
recruitment at B.U.
Membership information for FSYC is on file in the BU student
organizations office of in the GSU. The "Sparts" advertised their
9/8/05 meeting on Boston Indymedia Center.
I have had previous encounters with the Sparts: The most
memorable was at a Copley Square rally for illegal aliens and their
"right" to own driver's licenses. It was there that I met Hairlip
Girl, who asked me if I had heard of Spartacists. I said yes,
they are they are the Communists who had to be gunned down in
Germany. After flushing red, she asked if I was an anarchist, I
said no, capitalist. Then she said "Nooo," refused a copy of
Haters Magazine and later stomped back over to snatch one from me.
The Meeting Crash:
I attended
the Spartacus meeting in BU tower. Present were five core members: the
Hairlip Girl, a plain girl, an intellectual girl, a skinny boy with a
Russian Red Army hat, and a skinny boy with a high pitched voice.
First the
skinny high pitched boy gave a rambling half hour Marxist lecture. Then
Red Army Hat asked him a theoretical question, preempting real
discussion and enabling skinny high pitched boy to speak another ten
minutes.
After the
boring lecture, they tried to sell magazine subscriptions and get one
black and three mexicans to join. They were very patronizing to the
black, bringing up his race constantly. All the core members of
Spartacus were white.
Skinny high
pitched boy stated that "families" are a conspiracy perpetrated by the
capitalist bourgeoisie to enslave women and brainwash people. He
crumbled when challenged on this point, since he himself had to
acknowledge that he came from a family. An amusing side note was that I
brought a toddler to the meeting. He was somewhat well behaved,
but did not silently enjoy the speech while nodding.
While skinny
boy claimed to have a family, he did not have a spouse or children. Nor
was he prepared to accept that most Americans have these things, which
makes a lot of inertia for any potential revolutionaries.
Hairlip Girl
asked me to leave a couple of times, since "we can't have babies
around." When I asked if families will still exist after "the
revolution," she said yes and got angry.
Red Army Hat
guy shied away, when asked if he would like to read my parody of the
original Spartacus manifesto. One can't clutter one's ideology with
jokes or rival opinions.
In an
another amusing side note, the black was a born again christian, there
to bait atheists. He was cool for that.
My conclusion based on this meeting crash is that the Communist
Revolution is seriously fucked. The Red Guard is a bunch of
gay-loving emaciated dweebs who couldn't Smash Cornflakes with a hammer
let alone Smash Capitalism with a hammer and sickle. The only
revolting elements with any shock value are the judgement of the BU
administration in allowing violent groups to operate in their broom
closets and that several such broom closets exist across Campus Boston,
with branches of the same organization, most likely informed by the
same sad group of people.
