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Put it all on Red!

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I present to you Comrade Laski’s tale
In modern times it’d read [spoiler alert] epic fail
But this was the sixties/seventies
The decade of strange amenities
Laski was another American Red
This time even his own Comrades thought him better dead
Laski & Co backed the Chairman Mao
To the Bourgeoisie they said `Kapow!`
But Groups for Peoples Armed Defence
Cost quite a lot in dollars and pence
But Laski had a plan that would turn the tide
He’d go to Vegas and let it all ride!
As we know Lady Luck is quite fickle
Even to those shaded by the Hammer & Sickle
To his eternal regret
He lost every bet
And showing judgement quite poor
Raided the party treasury and bet more and more
But thought the wheel did spin and spin
He still could not win
It wasn’t just the dice that gave him the snake eye
He was denounced by a proletarian cry
But after failing at roulette and committing such impropriety
He damn well refused to try his luck at the Russian variety
He reached for his gun, this scourge of the right
Would go down blazing, in a gunfight
And so ends the tale of Laski the political Rambler
Who tried his luck as a gambler
In the end it wasn’t anything he wrote
That ensured his place as a Radical footnote.
This is the story of Michael Laski General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (Marxist Leninist) a group that peaked at 50 members. And yes this is a true story he did lose his party's funds on a trip through Nevada. The only exaggeration is the gunfight, it wasn't a shootout but he did threaten other members with a shotgun and a pistol, and even fired into the air several times during meetings that criticised him.

marxists.anu.edu.au/history/er…

Unsurprisingly they got rid of him, and also unsurprisingly the group folded.
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Not to be confused with the CP-USA that has and still does exist 90+ years after it's founding. Although the middle of the 20th Century had not been an easy time there either...