[Marxism] Raising Our Heads At a Historic Moment

[Rosa RL <rosarl65@xxxxxxxxx>]

New website makes talks by Bob Avakian available in
downloadable mp3 Audio.

On the elections, on democracy and dictatorship, on
resistance and revolution.

click here: http://bobavakian.net

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Raising Our Heads At a Historic Moment

Bob Avakian has been working intensely to wrench
something different out of this moment?and to raise
the sights of us all to the ways and possibilities of
doing that.

In Elections: Democracy and Dictatorship, Resistance
and Revolution he really dissects the current
situation around the election. He breaks down why Bush
is doing what he is doing and why Kerry is doing what
he is doing?how they are both "auditioning" for who
can be the best commander-in-chief to represent the
larger interests of the U.S. monopoly imperialist
ruling class; and why being confined by the terms and
logic of this election is very dangerous for the
people.

He brings out the deep strategic global interests of
the U.S. power structure?why the Bush agenda has had
so much initiative; why it is dangerous to hope that
the Democrats can be relied on to oppose this agenda;
and why people need to unite very broadly in the kind
of resistance that can not only oppose but defeat what
he calls the "juggernaut of war and repression."

And urging the listener to "fasten your seat belts,"
he takes us on a unique ride into a different future.

Chairman Avakian argues forcefully that, despite
appearances, this system is outmoded and
vulnerable?that its intolerable oppression can be
overthrown, and that we can together forge a new
society filled with the ferment of change and
liberation.

At a time when official and unofficial verdicts have
written off the most radical revolution as "impossible
and undesirable," Bob Avakian has been creatively re-
envisioning the whole communist project.

In the film of an historic talk in 2003? Revolution:
Why It?s Necessary, Why It?s Possible, What It?s All
About ?Chairman Avakian takes us on a journey from the
madness of this society to a future worth living in:
from the enforced powerlessness of capitalist
democracy, the restless aggression and infuriating
racism of U.S. society to a new socialist society
ruled by the oppressed?a society that the majority of
the people, including the millions of artists and
intellectuals, would want to live in, a society in
transition to a whole new communist world.

And it is vital to stop and think deeply over this:
Because no other leader in this country dares talk
about this. And because this vision is not just daring
but intensely practical and rooted in a dynamic
analysis of the real world.

What would it mean for this revolutionary vision and
analysis to connect deeply, now, with the millions of
people who are looking hard for a way to oppose Bush
and everything he represents?

What would it mean if the DVD of this historic talk,
Revolution: Why It?s Necessary, Why It?s Possible,
What It?s All About,and the online talk Elections:
Democracy and Dictatorship, Resistance and Revolution
and other online talks were played and debated
wherever people gather to discuss the madness of
Bush?s America? What would it mean if artists and
scientists, revolutionary youth, and proletarians were
wrestling with the questions raised about the
intellectual life of society and the path to communism
in Avakian?s Dictatorship and Democracy, and the
Socialist Transition to Communism ?

What would it mean if the leadership and analysis of
Chairman Avakian were able to connect to millions of
people?including many who will undoubtedly have lots
of questions and disagreements with these radical new
theses? What would it mean if a whole new dynamic and
a whole new conversation got the initiative in society
and people were able to lift their heads and breathe
some fresh air?instead of being reduced to "holding
their noses" and "picking the lesser of two evils"?
What would it mean if large new circles of people were
able to analyze and change the world using the
penetrating scientific method and approach that Bob
Avakian teaches and applies?

For decades, everyone has been told "nothing else is
possible." Now what would it mean for people to tear
that myth apart and explore Chairman Avakian?s
re-envisioning of socialist society that upholds the
historic achievements of the past, while breaking new
ground on how to do away with all oppression and
exploitation and have a world that people would really
want to live in?a radical new synthesis of how
proletarian power would be exercised he calls the
"solid core with a lot of elasticity." (See "A World
We Would Want to Live In," page 6.)

What would it mean for our struggle today to be
connected to the future?like a visionary bridge from
the intolerable injustices of capitalism to a
classless communist world without oppression?

It would have a profound and multiplying effect on
what was possible?both today and from now on?if all
this was woven into the very fabric of political and
intellectual struggle and debate today.

Chairman Avakian has worked to "chart the uncharted
course"?to lay bare a path to revolution, even in a
powerful rogue superpower like the USA. And, as those
who have seen and heard him speak have discovered,
things look very different once you dare to consider
the possibility of actually overthrowing the monstrous
system that dominates the planet and how the world
could be radically different.

In their hateful and repulsive way, men like Bush and
Cheney and Rumsfeld dare to remake the world?to
reshape international politics and economics in their
interests, to enforce a transformation of the whole
Middle East at the point of their guns and missiles.

And the masses too?in our millions?have to dare to
think about remaking the world? whether or not one
agrees with the whole vision put forward by Chairman
Avakian, his challenge to wrest a new and liberated
world out of the great flux, oppression, change and
crisis that lie ahead needs to be given a serious
hearing.

And from this sweeping perspective of what the world
could be like and how we could get to a different
world, Bob Avakian has powerfully pointed out the
importance of uniting all who can be united in
resistance NOW: "Once again, the point, clearly, is
that whether or not people vote in this election for
all those who see the real danger?the very danger that
makes them want to vote for Kerry, and to urge others
to vote for Kerry, even knowing what Kerry is, and is
not?that understanding of the great danger and its
immediacy should make people feel compelled to act,
and to call on, encourage and help mobilize many
others to act, outside of and beyond the elections and
the electoral framework?to build now, and in an
ongoing way, the most powerful mass opposition and
resistance that refuses to be bound by the terms of
mainstream politics or by the notions that this
politics represents the `ultimate word? on the `will
of the people.?" ("Food For Thought While Agonizing
Over Bush and Everything He Stands For," RW # 1254)


full article here:

The Will of the People Will Not Be Expressed in This
Election
http://rwor.org/a/1257/elections-not-will-of-people.htm


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http://bobavakian.net - Bob Avakian Speaks - two recent talks by Bob Avakian, 
leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA in audio format

http://rwor.org - Revolutionary Worker Online


                
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