If You Haven't Swallowed the Kool-aid,
You need to Come to This Discussion!
Thursday, Nov 20th, 6:30pm
At: Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St, Cambridge
Sponsored by Revolution Books
The Morning After the Election:
The Promise of Change...and the Change We Need
You couldn't miss it on Election Night. People actually pouring into the
streets to celebrate the election of a president. Emotions ran high,
and tears flowed.
And in the days after: people talking to friends and strangers alike of hope. Hope for a coming era
of change from the horrors of the Bush years. Hope for overcoming racism. Hope for a new era of service to the common good.
Hope-hope that is founded on the real
possibilities for fundamental change in this world-is indeed precious.
Dedicating your life to something higher than the ethic of
"I-want-mine" is so vital that the future of humanity actually depends
on it. And overcoming-truly overcoming-the divisions of
society based on inequality and oppression must be at the heart of any
real movement for social change.
But now, in the dawn of the morning after, one must ask and honestly grapple with some basic and very serious questions.
Hope for what? Service to what? Unity around what goals and what values?
A Manifesto from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
September 2008
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.
CONSTITUTION of the Revolutionary Communist Party
RCP Publications announces the publication of the new Constitution of the RCP,
USA—one that lays out the mission and vision of a new stage of communist revolution,
informed by Bob Avakian’s new synthesis of communist theory. The constitution puts
forward this vision in a very accessible way, as well as laying out the principles
of organization and the theoretical foundation of the Party. This includes an
important appendix on communist theory as a scientific and revolutionary theory.
This constitution serves as a bold declaration that there is indeed a party, in the
belly of the imperialist U.S., with the determination and strategic analysis to make
a revolution. . . and the vision, method and understanding of society and history to
ensure that it is a revolution worth making.
More than a store, Revolution Books is a center of revolutionary ferment – a crucible in which
the most liberating science, revolutionary communism, interacts and mixes it up with all the
streams of progressive, radical, and revolutionary intellectual life — a place to engage the
whole world. Here you'll find an insatiable thirst for the truth, a fearless approach to engaging
all of reality coming from a deep understanding that the problem in today's world is
capitalism/imperialism, and that a communist world brought into being by a revolution will be far
better.
At the core of Revolution Books is the path breaking work of Bob Avakian which goes beyond even the
best of the previous socialist societies and re-envisions a socialism that is both visionary and
viable, on the road to the truly liberating future of Communism. With its communist foundation,
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