Revolution Books in Boston

This past weekend, I stepped into Revolution Books in Boston, Massachusetts. What a joke. Bob Avakian and his Maoist goons should rename it and their Revolutionary Communist Party "No Gods, No Masters...except for Bob Avakian." What a blatant cult of personality. Their slogan is telling:

Our Ideology is Marxism-Leninism- Maoism

Our Vanguard is the Revolutionary Communist Party

Our Leader is Chairman Avakian

The tiny store, about the size of a large closet, on the second floor of some building near Harvard Square, had a few delightful books, but in large, there was nothing but Marxist, Maoist, and Avakianist literature. Not one title concerning anarchism, the other half of the socialist movement, as far as I could tell. I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised, but it still irks me. From what I hear, the store used to carry books on all sorts of "counter-culture" subjects, from atheism to Rastafarianism. However, from what I saw Saturday, it almost exclusively carries books which fit in with their Maoist ideology. I believe I saw some Zinn and maybe some Chomsky, but I don't think it was their pro-anarchism work so much as their work attacking U.S. imperialism.

I'd love to see more genuinely radical bookstores that don't cater to a specific ideology. Or at least, if you're going to cater to a specific ideology, don't hide it. Infoshops which carry only anarchist works generally don't call themselves "Revolution Books" or "Radical Books", do they? (Fie on those who do!)