Against Bogus Accusations of Cult: Fighting for What's True...

 

July 25, 2022 A Guide to This Issue of Revolution  What You Need to Know and Engage This Week About the World and Revolution Against Bogus Accusations of “Cult” Fighting for What’s True… Fighting for the Revolutionary Leadership of Bob Avakian Welcome to the website of the movement for revolution. This movement is in the midst of a huge and crucial battle. Last week we covered and refuted the slanderous attacks against Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, Sunsara Taylor and, in particular, Bob Avakian—attacks that have blanketed the internet in a number of major websites and other outlets, as well as social media. On Thursday, the RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube and, in particular, its host Andy Zee, further went on the offensive, fighting for the truth and fighting for Bob Avakian’s revolutionary leadership. Go here to see Andy Zee’s commentary and be sure to tune in Monday night (5 pm PT, 8 pm ET) to the special Zoom call: When the Headlines Scream “Communist Cult Is Hijacking the Abortion Rights Movement”: What Are They Trying to Stop & What Don’t They Want You to Know? (To join, DM @TheRevcoms on social media, or email TheRevcoms@gmail.com) Watch the whole episode of The RNL Show here—and tell your friends about this hard-hitting, truth-telling show. This week this website provides another weapon in this fight—an open letter from Sunsara Taylor that cuts through the scare words, confusion and ignorance and brings the truth: Bob Avakian Is Not a “Mad Cult Leader”: He Is a Deep Thinker and Profoundly Thoughtful Leader. An Open Letter to Fighters for Abortion Being Hit by This Accusation—And Others Who Are Hearing It. Sunsara starts by saying that Bob Avakian, BA, “is a very deep thinker and profoundly thoughtful leader,” and goes on to quote from BA’s own open letter to the theoretical physicist and author Lee Smolin that he “has dedicated his life to an understanding of human society and its historical development, and the potential and active struggle for its emancipating transformation—and more specifically... [is] someone who has taken up and applied Marxism/communism to these fundamental questions, precisely not as utopianism but as a scientific method and approach.” Taylor then provides some of the basic substance of that application. Especially, but not only, if you’re new to this site, read her piece carefully and more than once—it answers the “cult” accusation, and it goes way beyond it. But don’t just read this letter; take advantage of the PDF version to spread it online and share it in “in real life,” printing it as a pamphlet. And make sure to dig into, and/or continue to review and use, the other powerful material on this site: Bob Avakian, A Different Kind Of Leader, A Whole New Framework Of Emancipation; Haters Who “Don’t Want to Hear About BA” Are Telling on Themselves; BA’s official biography; and this week, a very moving excerpt from The New Communism on why Bob Avakian does the work he does. There is also last week’s article Behind the Week of Internet Attacks on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms: Imperialist Fear Mongers and Their Servants that analyzes these attacks and the potential danger they involve. The point is this: answering these attacks—which are as potentially serious as they are utterly groundless—is critically important, and these are the tools to do that, for yourselves and for others. Important and urgent as it is to get this truth out now—and it is extremely important, given those potential dangers—it’s important to root all this in some even more bedrock truths: that humanity needs revolution and the new communism developed by Bob Avakian; that revolutions are extremely complex undertakings that require extremely developed and high-level leadership; and that Bob Avakian has proven over 50 years, in the problems that he has tackled and solved and the example that he has set, that he is that leadership. If you are new to the site, read Bob Avakian's extremely important analysis of the current crossroads, Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed. A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution, which lays out the situation humanity faces, and how to wrench out of the mounting horror something truly emancipating—through revolution. There is the deep analysis and the roadmap to do that. If you are not new to the site, return to that work—dig deeper into it—there are layers. Use as a guide in building the movement for revolution the 7 Key Points, the basic principles that boil these down into very synthesized terms. And new or old, wage struggle with people, serious struggle, ferocious struggle to get into this and take this up. For here is the cardinal point in all this: The masses of people—basic masses and people of other strata, or walks of life, as well—desperately need the leadership of BA and the new communism, even though in their masses they don’t yet know it, and some who do are resisting it. How often do the masses have a situation where they have such a leader?! And this takes on particular significance in this “rare time,” a time in which a revolution could actually be made—a time which must not be squandered and wasted. Anything and anyone that obstructs the means by which these masses come to know this and take it up is doing great harm, even as it is important to distinguish between those who consciously and actively do this and those who are simply “spontaneously” following the prevailing trends, putrid as they are. This issue of the website is both a tool to take on these attacks, vigorously and ferociously, to expose those who are perpetrating them… an urgent invitation to get deeper into the basic foundation of understanding and the roadmap to liberation contained in “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating,” and the concentration of this in the 7 Key Points. We also cover much else this week that both relates to this but gets into many different aspects of the situation humanity faces and why all of this urgently calls out for revolution. Dig into and spread these articles—and be sure to tune into The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube this Thursday for more hard-hitting truth. Included in this issue: * Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating: Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed. A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution * Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points * Bob Avakian: A Radically Different Leader—A Whole New Framework for Human Emancipation * Countering the Attacks on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms Zoom meeting, Monday, July 25: When the Headlines Scream “Communist Cult Is Hijacking the Abortion Rights Movement”: What Are They Trying to Stop & What Don’t They Want You to Know? Bob Avakian Is Not a “Mad Cult Leader”: He Is a Deep Thinker and Profoundly Thoughtful Leader. An Open Letter to Fighters for Abortion Being Hit by This Accusation—And Others Who Are Hearing It, by Sunsara Taylor Andy Zee commentary from The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show, July 21 (watch / read) PAAU: “Woke” Enslavers of Women Behind the Week of Internet Attacks on Bob Avakian and the Revcoms: Imperialist Fear Mongers and Their Servants Haters Who “Don’t Want to Hear About BA” Are Telling on Themselves Robert Mackey Dishonestly Demonizes Bob Avakian, Erases Revolution, and Trashes the Truth: WILL THE INTERCEPT STAND BY THIS?, by Sunsara Taylor BA: A Contended Question * The Fight for Abortion Rights The First Aftershocks from Loss of Abortion Rights Show an Enslaving Future If We Don’t Raise Our Heads and Fight, by Sunsara Taylor Sights and Sounds from This Week of Struggle for the Right to Abortion   * January 6 Hearings—And the Violence of This System, by Bob Avakian * Punishment for Running a Stop Sign and Speeding While Black? A Vicious Pig Beat Down * Make a World of Difference: Donate to the Revcom.us Summer Fund Drive   Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: youtube.com/TheRevComs “...we have two choices: either, live with all this — and condemn future generations to the same, or worse, if they have a future at all — or, make revolution!” —Bob Avakian START AT HOME PAGE BOB AVAKIAN: A RADICALLY DIFFERENT LEADER—A WHOLE NEW FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATION Learn more about Bob Avakian and the new communism The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show A weekly YouTube show about ACTUAL revolution, based on Bob Avakian’s new communism What Is the Revolution Club? Who Should Check Out the Revolution Club, Run with It and Join? What Does It Mean To Join? And How Do I Get Started? What do I do first? Wherever you are, sign up. Spread the word. Find out more about Revolution Club » FEATURED: BOB AVAKIAN BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian The Supreme Court Moves to End Abortion Rights: “Taking to the Streets,”  And Refusing to Let This Go Down Bob Avakian Speaks to This Critical Juncture in the Fight for Abortion Rights,  The Road Forward, and Avoiding Dead Ends FEATURED: NEWS FROM THE REVCOMS (REVCOM.US): A DECLARATION, A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOW FOR A REAL REVOLUTION From the Revolution Club... The Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Roe v. Wade Is ILLEGITIMATE! We Need Resistance and Revolution! 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