{"article":{"id":229941,"heading":"Revolution: Why it\u2019s Necessary, Why it\u2019s Possible, and What it\u2019s all about","author":"Bob Avakian","created":"2009-08-26 16:19:01","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:52","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:00:52","article":"

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<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"revolutiontalk.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Revolution: Why it\u2019s Necessary, Why it\u2019s Possible, and What it\u2019s all about.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn 2003 Bob Avakian delivered this historic talk in the United States. This is a wide-ranging revolutionary journey. It breaks down the very nature of the society we live in and how humanity has come to a time where a radically different society is possible. He lays it all out in a nine-hour speech-and then goes into three hours of question-and-answer dialogue with the audiences. It's all there-full of heart and soul, humor and seriousness. \r\n","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2009\/08\/229941.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":229948,"heading":"avakian not the question","article":"Bob Avakian is not the primary question facing revolutionaries today.\r\n\r\nQuestions to an RCP Supporter\r\nFrom: http:\/\/bit.ly\/Ow11F\r\n\r\n * Why the silence about Nepal?\r\n * Why this \u201ccultural revolution\u201d in the Party?\r\n * Why have so many people left?\r\n * Where is the \u201cwild and wooly debate\u201d?\r\n * Why are they accusing critics of counterrevolution?\r\n * Why are they constantly talking about threats to their leaders and organizations?\r\n * What really is the New Synthesis?\r\n * How does it actually differ from communism that has come before?\r\n * Is it a correct synthesis that will lead to the development of a revolutionary movement and a revolution in fact?\r\n * Why are they holding a line that \u201cAvakian is a cardinal question\u201d or the equivalent of (if not greater than) Marx, Lenin and Mao?\r\n * Is this justified?\r\n * How do you know the answers to any of these question?\r\n * What is the basis for your decision to agree with Avakian and the RCP?\r\n * Is it a well studied analysis of what Avakian and the RCP have to say in light of what communist theory has held in the past, and in light of what the current conditions are in the world?\r\n * Or do you make your decision based on something else?\r\n * Is it because you are afraid to lose your identity as a communist?\r\n * Is it because you are afraid to lose friends and family?\r\n * Is it because you are afraid to think critically and find that the RCP\u2019s math doesn\u2019t add up?\r\n\r\nFrom Inside the RCP: Why This Party Can\u2019t Lead a Revolution\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/csdrA\r\n\r\nNew Constitution of RCP: Faltering Organization Stamped by Avakianism\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/nmJ2O\r\n\r\nA Comrade\u2019s Letter: Inside the RCP\u2019s Rectification\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/diWS3\r\n\r\nUlises Subida: The Vision & Method of the RCP\u2019s Polemics\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2lMXEW\r\n\r\nOn Althusser and the RCP in Decline\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/68bY4\r\n\r\n9 Letters to Our Comrades\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/3puVI\r\n\r\nOpposing Lines on Maoist Revolution: RCP,USA and CP of Nepal (Maoist)\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/fqENT","author":"dependencytheory","parent_id":229941,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-08-26 23:06:31","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:52","fileurl":""},{"id":229949,"heading":"Well, as the "Chairman" might have said.....","article":" "We see Tibet through the binoculars of the People."","author":"Lord Locksley","parent_id":229941,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2009-08-27 01:46:31","modified":"2009-08-27 01:46:31","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2009\/08\/anu20_01.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2009\/08\/anu20_01.jpg"}},{"id":229968,"heading":"great video to watch","article":"That last comment by "dependencytheory" with all the links is from a useless group of sour grapes ex-revolutionaries grouped around Mike Ely and his "Kasama" website. The RCP wrote a splendid answer to their "9 Letters" nonsense, and its gossip filled lying counter-revolutionary nonsense. You can read that at:\r\nwww.rwor.org\/a\/polemics\/NineLettersResponse.pdf\r\nAlso, see a comment by a reader on that response, at:\r\nwww.rwor.org\/a\/135\/Observations_By_Reader-en.html\r\n\r\nThe RCP is, in my opinion, taking bold and courageous steps to actually try to build a revolutionary movement here and internationally, and always acts on the basis of principle.\r\n\r\nThe Ely group is just sniping from the sidelines and has nothing constructive to add, just a mess of eclecticism, pragmatism, confusion, gossip, and misdirection. \r\n\r\nThe video of Avakian's speech is a truly inspiring prtesentation of the evils of this worthless capitalist\/imperialist system, an analysis of what we need to do, and an bold call for action and unity against the enemy and for real thoroughgoing revolutionary solutions.\r\n\r\nThe RCP has been taking bold and inhspiring initiatives to move things forward while all too much of the "left" tails behind Obama.\r\n\r\nIf you care about a bette world, you owe it to yourself to check out this video of Avakian's speech. If you just watch the beginning, in fact, you will be hungry to see it all.\r\n\r\nThe cynics prefer to try to get you all tangled up in a bunch of truly sectarian nonsense.\r\n\r\nHonest disagreements are one thing, but cynical meanspirited wrecking is another.\r\n\r\nThe RCP showed us what they mean about promoting unity and principled struggle, focused against the real enemy, in holding the historic meeting last month in Harlem in which an audience of over 650 people, with an overflow crowd outside heard Prof Cornel West and the RCP's Carl Dix discuss "The Ascendancy of Obama\u2026 and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation."\r\n\r\nYou can watch the video of that at:\r\nwww.blip.tv\/file\/2380374\r\n\r\nI am not a member of the RCP but I am thrilled that they are taking the initiative to try to take the pressing need for a genuine revolutionary movement in this country to the people in a bold direct and principled manner. \r\n ","author":"wbbssuftr","parent_id":229941,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-08-28 06:49:11","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:52","fileurl":""},{"id":229980,"heading":"Resonse to dependencytheory","article":"* Why the silence about Nepal?\r\n\r\nReasons why the leadership in Nepal lacks proper vision are understood once you understand what Avakian is putting forth. The RCP also published letters of the exchange that occurred between them and the Nepali Maoists. The DVD speaks about Nepal favorably. So why the silence on the un-silence of the RCP on Nepal?\r\n\r\n* Why this \u201ccultural revolution\u201d in the Party?\r\n\r\nI\u2018m too ignorant of too many facts to do other than guess on what really happened. I\u2018d sure like to know.\r\n\r\n* Why have so many people left?\r\n\r\nDid they? It appears to me that the Party is more out there now than they\u2019ve ever been.\r\n\r\n* Where is the \u201cwild and wooly debate\u201d?\r\n\r\nNo kidding! If it is taking place it\u2019s behind closed doors somewhere. It appears to me that unless you completely agree with Bob Avakian and have not one single bad word to say about him then you can \u201cdebate\u201d with them, otherwise you\u2019re a counter-revolutionary who they refuse to speak to.\r\n\r\n* Why are they accusing critics of counterrevolution?\r\n\r\nIt seems to me an easy weapon for them to dehumanize people with. If Bob Avakian calls you a counter-revolutionary then they can disregard all the things he teaches about the role of debate in the revolution. I imagine that the people in the RCP experience so much hate from every angle that it is a relief to them to be able to simply label you a counter-revolutionary and be able to disregard the criticisms you have.\r\n\r\n* Why are they constantly talking about threats to their leaders and organizations?\r\n\r\nThis questions displays that the asker hasn\u2019t studied much about these revolution thingys.\r\n\r\n* What really is the New Synthesis?\r\n* How does it actually differ from communism that has come before?\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s too long to paste here, do a search for Bob Avakian New Synthesis.\r\n\r\n* Is it a correct synthesis that will lead to the development of a revolutionary movement and a revolution in fact?\r\n\r\nI don\u2019t think there is much of anything wrong with the line of the RCP, it\u2019s how they frame the leadership (can easily be interpreted as the RCP thinking Bob Avakian is genetically superior to the rest of us) and how they relate to people that are their major problems.\r\n\r\n* Why are they holding a line that \u201cAvakian is a cardinal question\u201d or the equivalent of (if not greater than) Marx, Lenin and Mao?\r\n\r\nAvakian is a cardinal question. He has more money and has written more, truly in the interests of poor people, than anyone else. Anyone wishing to compete with him needs to get up enough funds to run bookstores and be able devote most of their life to study and writing. Poor people are too wrapped up in securing our survival to study and write as much as Bob has in our interests, and it\u2019s rare a Bob Avakian comes along from the upper class who wants to study and write in the interests of poor people as much as he has.\r\n\r\n* Is this justified?\r\n\r\nNo, but it\u2019s what we have to deal with.\r\n\r\n* How do you know the answers to any of these question?\r\n\r\nTo all the questions that I know the answers to, that knowledge has come to me through application of the scientific method.\r\n\r\n* What is the basis for your decision to agree with Avakian and the RCP?\r\n\r\nThey are far above and beyond any of the numerous other groups I\u2019ve studied when it comes to having a correct understanding of the nature of the system and what needs to be done.\r\n\r\n* Is it a well studied analysis of what Avakian and the RCP have to say in light of what communist theory has held in the past, and in light of what the current conditions are in the world?\r\n\r\nYes.\r\n\r\n* Or do you make your decision based on something else?\r\n\r\nNo.\r\n\r\n* Is it because you are afraid to lose your identity as a communist?\r\n* Is it because you are afraid to lose friends and family?\r\n\r\nI have 0 communist friends or family, perhaps this is a reason I feel more free to criticize the RCP. I can imagine that there are many people in the RCP who are sheeple.\r\n\r\n* Is it because you are afraid to think critically and find that the RCP\u2019s math doesn\u2019t add up? \r\n\r\nIf by the RCP\u2019s math \u201cnot adding up\u201d you\u2019re talking about what Kasma has put forth against them then it is you who needs to break out a calculator. The RCP can have many valid criticisms leveled against it, but Kasma chooses to put forth criticisms that are not valid, and other unscientific nonsense.\r\n","author":"Bill","parent_id":229941,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-08-28 16:25:42","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:52","fileurl":""}]}