EVENTS AT REVOLUTION BOOKS
Tuesday, June 9th, 6:30pm

Discussion of the article By Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

RUMINATIONS AND WRANGLINGS
On the Importance of Marxist Materialism,
Communism as a Science,
Meaningful Revolutionary Work, and a Life with Meaning

Part 4. Each Class Seeks to Remake the World in Its Image—
But Only One Class Cannot Do This by Relying on Spontaneity

Article available at revcom.us





Wednesday, June 3rd, 7 - 9:30 pm

Film Screening: Taxi to the Darkside


In December 2002, Dilawar, a young rural Afghan cabdriver, was accused of helping to plan a rocket attack on a U.S. base, clamped into prison at Bagram, and subjected to physical torture so relentless that he died after two days of it. But Dilawar was innocent--and he'd been denounced by the real culprit, who thereby took the heat off himself and won points with U.S. forces by giving them "a bad guy." Dilawar was the first fatal victim of Vice President Dick Cheney's devotion to "working the dark side"--torturing, humiliating, and otherwise abusing prisoners in the "Global War on Terror." His story, developed in horrific detail with testimony from the soldiers who tortured him, and also from two New York Times investigative reporters, becomes a prism for slanting light onto the "dark side" policy and the mindset behind it. The program at Bagram was deemed such a success that it served as the model for Abu Graibh the following year in Iraq, and both prisons became pipelines to the detainee facility at Guantánamo, Cuba.

Screening will be held at the
Pierre Menard Gallery
10 Arrow St, Cambridge


This is a fundraising event for Revolution Books.
Suggested donation $6
Contact the bookstore for more information.


Check for upcoming discussions:

COMMUNISM: THE BEGINNING OF A NEW STAGE
A Manifesto from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA


click here:
Despite what is constantly preached at us, this capitalist system
we live under, this way of life that constantly drains away—or in
an instant blows away—life for the great majority of humanity, does not
represent the best possible world—nor the only possible world. The ways in
which the daily train of life has, for centuries and millennia, caused the
great majority of humanity to be weighed down, broken in body and spirit,
by oppression, agony, degradation, violence and destruction, and the dark veil
of ignorance and superstition, is not the fault of this suffering humanity—
nor is this the “will” of some non-existent god or gods, or the result of
some unchanging and unchangeable “human nature.” All this is the expression,
and the result, of the way human society has developed up to this point under
the domination of exploiters and oppressors...but that very development has
brought humanity to the point where what has been, for thousands of years,
no longer has to be—where a whole different way of life is possible in which
human beings, individually and above all in their mutual interaction with each
other, in all parts of the world, can throw off the heavy chains of tradition
and rise to their full height and thrive in ways never before experienced, or
even fully imagined.

Now also available as a pamphlet

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Click to hear RAYMOND LOTTA's talk on "THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN AND THE MADNESS OF CAPITALISM."
a talk at Revolution Books, NYC, September 25, 2008
(may take a few minutes to download)

A unique revolutionary perspective on the financial turmoil, globalization, and America 's wars for empire

As Lehman Brothers collapses, as Merrill Lynch is liquidated and swallowed up, and with U.S. capitalism facing what may be the most acute financial crisis since the Great Depression, many ponder what's behind the cascading turmoil. Speculators? Deregulation? Washington bureaucracy? Raymond Lotta, a Maoist political economist, pierces the superficial analyses. He reveals how the current financial crisis is rooted in the dynamics of capitalism itself, its global functioning in the 21st century, including the heightened financialization and militarization of the U.S. economy, and major shifts in world economic power alignments.


Part 2: Q&A