Chelsea, 26th Street Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues

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And I was afraid this was going to be a dull block.




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Article in New York Magazine, December 8, 2008

“A Revolutionary Reading Room”
“Revolution Books/Libros Revolución, the cheerfully insurrectionist leftist hangout, is perhaps the only place in the city where you can drink coffee, discuss Mao Tse-tung, and pick up a copy of the 2009 Cat Lovers Against the Bomb calendar. Manager Travis Morales—longtime Revolutionary Communist Party member—says the financial meltdown hasn’t hurt the store: “We were packed to the gills for [Maoist political economist] Raymond Lotta’s talk. I’ve heard people on Wall Street are reading The Communist Manifesto to understand how capitalism works.” But surely a bad economy makes for a tough holiday season? “We’re having a sale called Take the Christ Out of Christmas, and the Holy Out of Holiday,” says Morales of one strategy. “Ten percent off all books on atheism and science.”



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Oh, no! they don't like Obama! Well, that does it.

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