Political maturity is finally admitting to yourself that the angriest, most disconcerting communist you've ever met was pretty much right about everything.

If you learn enough, stay humble enough, and pay close enough attention, eventually that's what happens. You realize that, generally speaking, the really high-octane commies have the most lucid understanding of the world out of any group out there, and the only reason this wasn't always obvious to you was because you live under a capitalist power structure which aggressively indoctrinates its populace from birth into believing that communism is No No Bad Bad.

Reading by Tim Foley.