Communism is alive and well in America!!

Last Saturday I was supposed to go to Dhading to help tutor the levl-10 kids on English grammar for their final exit exam (in Nepal high school is only 2 years and the 2 after that are optional and called "college"). Well Min tells me not to bring my books or anything because we are taking a detour. Binod begs his dad to tag along, so the three of us were off to go somewhere that was supposed to be a "surprise" for me.
We get to this park and he tells me that it is a picnic with some of his work friends. It really wasn't that fun, but it was funny to watch all the men dance around and the food was pretty good. Most the time Binod and I just sat there laughing at people.
But we get to the point of the picnic where everyone is suppose to gather round and introduce themselves into a microphone. I can't understand a word of it but I gather that people are saying their name and where they work. The main guy insists that I introduce myself so I take the mic and say "Hi, I'm Alicia and I'm from the US. I am here teaching Engilsh at the Bhubaneswori School in Dhading." and I hand off the microphone. The main guy takes it back and translates. Then he says a whole bunch more in Nepalese. Then he translates what he said, "This is proof that the movement is not just here in Nepal but world wide. Communism is alive and well in America! Hail to Noam Chomsky." I immediately look at Binod and say, "What is this picnic?" He just shrugged and said he didn't know. I ask him to read the big banner to me and he says, "It just says 'Welcome' and something about 'CPN-UML.'" Hence the comment about communism. CPN is the Communist Party of Nepal. UML is the faction of the government that is non-Maoist (good) but still highly uncooperative and unproductive. As for the Noam Chomsky comment, I was thrown a little off guard by it. I'm no expert, but as I recall, Chomsky is a socialistic anarchist. Turns out, the guy running the rally got his masters in Linguistics. Soooo yeah.. hail to Noam Chomsky.
Glad I'm here to give the CPN proof that Americans believe in communism. Also glad McCarthy wasn't in attendance... he might've blacklisted me after that...