>I'm a little bit suspicious of this story since the student's name isn't mentioned and it hasn't filtered into the mainstream news media.
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>From SouthCoastToday: " A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book.""
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>http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm

I'm amazed that the book exists. Out of curiosity, I've walked through relevant parts of the local library here (and it's not small at all), and haven't found a single book that would be even pink. Even if one wanted to study marxism with the sole goal of proving it wrong for better reasons than "we can waste more money on weapons than you do", one'd be hard pressed to find such books here.

No wonder nobody knows what they're talking about when communism is mentioned, but everybody is ready to play a fully informed Monday morning coach.