{"article":{"id":118343,"heading":"Raising our Heads at a Historic Monent","author":"duko","created":"2004-10-31 18:26:58","modified":"2013-11-11 00:31:31","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:31:31","article":"

New website makes talks by Bob Avakian available in\r\ndownloadable mp3 Audio.<\/b>
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\r\nOn the elections, on democracy and dictatorship, on resistance and revolution.
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\r\nclick here: http:\/\/bobavakian.net
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\r\nRaising Our Heads At a Historic Moment<\/b>
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\r\nBob Avakian has been working intensely to wrench something different out of this\r\nmoment—and to raise the sights of us all to the ways and possibilities of\r\ndoing that.
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\r\nIn Elections: Democracy and Dictatorship, Resistance and Revolution he really\r\ndissects the current situation around the election. He breaks down why Bush is\r\ndoing what he is doing and why Kerry is doing what he is doing—how they are\r\nboth \"auditioning\" for who can be the best commander-in-chief to\r\nrepresent the larger interests of the U.S. monopoly imperialist ruling class;\r\nand why being confined by the terms and logic of this election is very dangerous\r\nfor the people.
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\r\nHe brings out the deep strategic global interests of the U.S. power\r\nstructure—why the Bush agenda has had so much initiative; why it is dangerous\r\nto hope that the Democrats can be relied on to oppose this agenda; and why\r\npeople need to unite very broadly in the kind of resistance that can not only\r\noppose but defeat what he calls the \"juggernaut of war and\r\nrepression.\"
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\r\nAnd urging the listener to \"fasten your seat belts,\" he takes us on a\r\nunique ride into a different future.
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\r\nChairman Avakian argues forcefully that, despite appearances, this system is\r\noutmoded and vulnerable—that its intolerable oppression can be overthrown, and\r\nthat we can together forge a new society filled with the ferment of change and\r\nliberation.
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\r\nAt a time when official and unofficial verdicts have written off the most\r\nradical revolution as \"impossible and undesirable,\" Bob Avakian has\r\nbeen creatively re- envisioning the whole communist project.
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\r\nIn the film of an historic talk in 2003— Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why\r\nIt’s Possible, What It’s All About —Chairman Avakian takes us on a journey\r\nfrom the madness of this society to a future worth living in: from the enforced\r\npowerlessness of capitalist democracy, the restless aggression and infuriating\r\nracism of U.S. society to a new socialist society ruled by the oppressed—a\r\nsociety that the majority of the people, including the millions of artists and\r\nintellectuals, would want to live in, a society in transition to a whole new\r\ncommunist world.
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\r\nAnd it is vital to stop and think deeply over this: Because no other leader in\r\nthis country dares talk about this. And because this vision is not just daring\r\nbut intensely practical and rooted in a dynamic analysis of the real world.
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\r\nWhat would it mean for this revolutionary vision and analysis to connect deeply,\r\nnow, with the millions of people who are looking hard for a way to oppose Bush\r\nand everything he represents?
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\r\nWhat would it mean if the DVD of this historic talk, Revolution: Why It’s\r\nNecessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About,and the online talk\r\nElections: Democracy and Dictatorship, Resistance and Revolution and other\r\nonline talks were played and debated wherever people gather to discuss the\r\nmadness of Bush’s America? What would it mean if artists and scientists,\r\nrevolutionary youth, and proletarians were wrestling with the questions raised\r\nabout the intellectual life of society and the path to communism in Avakian’s\r\nDictatorship and Democracy, and the Socialist Transition to Communism ?
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\r\nWhat would it mean if the leadership and analysis of Chairman Avakian were able\r\nto connect to millions of people—including many who will undoubtedly have lots\r\nof questions and disagreements with these radical new theses? What would it mean\r\nif a whole new dynamic and a whole new conversation got the initiative in\r\nsociety and people were able to lift their heads and breathe some fresh\r\nair—instead of being reduced to \"holding their noses\" and\r\n\"picking the lesser of two evils\"? What would it mean if large new\r\ncircles of people were able to analyze and change the world using the\r\npenetrating scientific method and approach that Bob Avakian teaches and applies?
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\r\nFor decades, everyone has been told \"nothing else is possible.\" Now\r\nwhat would it mean for people to tear that myth apart and explore Chairman\r\nAvakian’s re-envisioning of socialist society that upholds the historic\r\nachievements of the past, while breaking new ground on how to do away with all\r\noppression and exploitation and have a world that people would really want to\r\nlive in—a radical new synthesis of how proletarian power would be exercised he\r\ncalls the \"solid core with a lot of elasticity.\" (See \"A World We\r\nWould Want to Live In,\" page 6.)
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\r\nWhat would it mean for our struggle today to be connected to the future—like a\r\nvisionary bridge from the intolerable injustices of capitalism to a classless\r\ncommunist world without oppression?
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\r\nIt would have a profound and multiplying effect on what was possible—both\r\ntoday and from now on—if all this was woven into the very fabric of political\r\nand intellectual struggle and debate today.
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\r\nChairman Avakian has worked to \"chart the uncharted course\"—to lay\r\nbare a path to revolution, even in a powerful rogue superpower like the USA.\r\nAnd, as those who have seen and heard him speak have discovered, things look\r\nvery different once you dare to consider the possibility of actually\r\noverthrowing the monstrous system that dominates the planet and how the world\r\ncould be radically different.
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\r\nIn their hateful and repulsive way, men like Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld dare\r\nto remake the world—to reshape international politics and economics in their\r\ninterests, to enforce a transformation of the whole Middle East at the point of\r\ntheir guns and missiles.
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\r\nAnd the masses too—in our millions—have to dare to think about remaking the\r\nworld— whether or not one agrees with the whole vision put forward by Chairman\r\nAvakian, his challenge to wrest a new and liberated world out of the great flux,\r\noppression, change and crisis that lie ahead needs to be given a serious\r\nhearing.
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\r\nAnd from this sweeping perspective of what the world could be like and how we\r\ncould get to a different world, Bob Avakian has powerfully pointed out the\r\nimportance of uniting all who can be united in resistance NOW: \"Once again,\r\nthe point, clearly, is that whether or not people vote in this election for all\r\nthose who see the real danger—the very danger that makes them want to vote for\r\nKerry, and to urge others to vote for Kerry, even knowing what Kerry is, and is\r\nnot—that understanding of the great danger and its immediacy should make\r\npeople feel compelled to act, and to call on, encourage and help mobilize many\r\nothers to act, outside of and beyond the elections and the electoral\r\nframework—to build now, and in an ongoing way, the most powerful mass\r\nopposition and resistance that refuses to be bound by the terms of mainstream\r\npolitics or by the notions that this politics represents the `ultimate word’\r\non the `will of the people.’\" (\"Food For Thought While Agonizing\r\nOver Bush and Everything He Stands For,\" RW # 1254)
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\r\nfull article here:
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\r\nThe Will of the People Will Not Be Expressed in This Election<\/b>
\r\nhttp:\/\/rwor.org\/a\/1257\/elections-not-will-of-people.htm
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\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"darbycrash1965@yahoo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"audio\/mpeg","summary":"Bob Avakian has been working intensely to wrench something different out of this\r\nmoment\u2014and to raise the sights of us all to the ways and possibilities of\r\ndoing that.
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\r\nIn Elections: Democracy and Dictatorship, Resistance and Revolution he really\r\ndissects the current situation around the election. He breaks down why Bush is\r\ndoing what he is doing and why Kerry is doing what he is doing\u2014how they are\r\nboth "auditioning" for who can be the best commander-in-chief to\r\nrepresent the larger interests of the U.S. monopoly imperialist ruling class;\r\nand why being confined by the terms and logic of this election is very dangerous\r\nfor the people.
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