I knew a guy who was pretty much every rightist's worst nightmare--a high school teacher who had a side business selling marijuana (which is how I knew him--a close friend of mine was a regular customer) and would distribute Communist literature along with his main product to some customers. Guy was super intense and looked it. Long, white beard, skinny but strong-looking, Manson eyes. Really in favor of violent revolution, and a hardcore CTer. I heard he had a big flag of Cuba hung up in his house. Super anti-racist, too (white, BTW). The friend of mine who bought from him wasn't a big reader, and he'd pass the stuff on to me and later introduced us ("this is the guy I was telling you about who actually reads all the shit you give me"). We argued a bit, but it ended with a handshake. That led to him dropping his literature off to me directly ("read, absorb, pass on"). A lot of hot garbage, but also some good stuff mixed in. Led me somewhat indirectly to read Kropotkin and many other interesting anarchist thinkers (kind of weird that he'd mix Marxist stuff in with like Bakunin denouncing Marx) that did influence me. He's probably long dead by now. Been maybe 20 years since I've seen him, and he didn't seem like he had anywhere near that long to go.
