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    Vol.62/No.19           May 18, 1998 
 
 
150 Years Of The Communist Manifesto  
Below we print an excerpt from an article in the May 1 "Weekend Magazine" in the Washington Post titled "Red Letter Day: Looking for May Day in Post-Soviet Washington." The article featured area stores where readers could find books, art, and other things related to the history of May Day and the Russian revolution. The following excerpt was accompanied by a picture of the Pathfinder Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

As has been widely reported, a new $13 gift edition of "The Communist Manifesto" has just been published, commemorating the document's 150th anniversary. Workers of the world can save almost 10 bucks, however, if they buy the less opulent version available at Adams-Morgan's Pathfinder Bookstore, which gives its address as 1930 18th St. NW, but whose entrance is actually around the corner on Florida Avenue (202/387-2185). The revolution lives at this small shop and political activity center, which offers the basic texts of Marx and Engels in English, Spanish, and French. Like most contemporary American leftist organizations, however, Pathfinder shows little enthusiasm for the direction of the Soviet Union once Stalin took over. The store has volumes by Lenin and Trotsky, but subsequent Soviet leaders are not represented.

 
 
 
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