"Communism as an economic system was always surrealistic...." -- William F. Buckley, preface to Leftism Revisited by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (p. xi)

WFB, if still among the living, notwithstanding his nobility and success in standing athwart history yelling Stop!, would be hearing from the Surrealist Anti-defamation League right about now to be held to account for this terrible slur on surrealism!
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In the end he [the organizer in a free society for a free society] has one conviction--a belief that if people have the power to act, in the long run they will, most of the time, reach the right decisions. The alternative to this would be rule by the elite--either a dictatorship or some form of a political aristocracy.

*** Believing in people, the radical has the job of organizing them so they will have the power and opportunity to best meet each unforeseeable future crisis as they move ahead in their eternal search for those values of equality, justice, freedom, peace, a deep concern for the preciousness of human life, and all those rights and values propounded by Judaeo-Christianity and the democratic political tradition.

-- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, 1971, Vintage Books edition, 1989, pp. 11-12
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LIke the giraffe and the duckbilled platypus, the creatures inhabiting these remoter regions of the mind are exceedingly improbable. Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell
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A man needs a little madness, or else...he never dares cut the rope and be free. -- Zorba
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Surrealist Party State Committee Chairs:

Arizona: Rachel Alexander
California: Knox Bronson
Massachusetts: Pearlan
Nevada: Elizabeth Crum
Pennsylvania: Kiku-san

Why is the Giraffe the icon of The Surrealist Party? (Hint: Thomas Nast had little or nothing to do with it. Read through the World Ideologies to the end....)

World Ideologies as Explained by Reference to Cows (scroll down):

Feudalism: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
Pure Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.
Bureaucratic Socialism: Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
Pure Communism: You have two cows. Your neighbours help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
Real World Communism: You share two cows with your neighbours. You and your neighbours bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
Russian Communism: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
Perestroika: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.
Cambodian Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
Militarism: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
Totalitarianism: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
Pure Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbours decide who gets the milk.
Representative Democracy: You have two cows. Your neighbours pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
British Democracy: You have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
Bureaucracy: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
Pure Anarchy: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbours try to take the cows and kill you.
Pure Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
American-style Capitalism: You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.
Environmentalism: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
Political Correctness: You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government gives you harmonica lessons.

Now, for the wonks, classicists and literalists amongst us, consider reading:

The First Surrealist Manifesto (Breton, 1924).

(Yes, it is The Surrealist Party's Platform. No, we haven't read it either. The Democratic and Republican Committeepeople don't read theirs so why pick on us?)