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By Gaston F. Ceron
"The point of the store is to change the world," said Hirsch, who joined its staff in the 1980s and has managed it for most of the years since.
Paul Rodriguez is one of about a dozen people who help Revolution Books stay afloat. Nearly all are volunteers. "We pay me a little bit," Hirsch said, "but I have another job." Hirsch, who works part-time as an assistant in a lawyer's office, is grateful for Rodriguez and others who donate their time to the store.
Before moving to its current location, Revolution Books was based next to Union Square. Despite the high cost of renting in Manhattan, Hirsch said the store has been able to hang on, helped by its regulars. It receives "a lot of walk-in business" and draws students purchasing textbooks, which also are available at Revolution Books.
"We make enough money to stay in business," Hirsch said, declining to be more specific.
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Wow. I know, we must be so screwed up. That this kook can support himself, stay in business in manhattan, and doesn't have to do anything really "productie" in the classical sense...gets to run a book store, essentially making a living fomenting his ideas, in some of the priciest real estate in the world...yet he thinks he is getting a raw deal. Think he would have that same "dissident job opportunity" in Soviet Russia? Nyet!