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Part IV: Selective indignation Academic institutions' position on preaching genocidal ideology? Looks like it's A-OK! The latest People's Cult in the United States? Bob Avakian has been at it since the 70s. It seems bizarre that of all the things that would need logos, the ones where they seem to exude the most meaning are ideologies. Many religions are identified by outsiders through a symbol; fascism owes its name to fasces , a bundle of sticks symbolizing authority in Rome. National socialism "Nazism" adopted the swastika because Adolf Hitler recognized how effective the Hammer and Sickle had been in spreading the Bolshevik Revolution among the Russian peasantry. In the United States white power racial groups like Stormfront are not welcome on college campuses, whether by the administrators or by student groups, so their symbols are only used to ridicule others as in calling them Nazis in order to label them as bigots. A group that attempts t