Hope on a Scientific Basis

 

October 24, 2022 A Guide to This Issue of Revolution What You Need to Know and Engage This Week  About the World and Revolution Revolution, Nothing Less! YouTube Show Announces Three-Part Interview with Bob Avakian Hope on a Scientific Basis This past week the world was again in tumult and uproar. We saw further escalation of the extremely dangerous war in Ukraine, with the real and urgent threat of a possible nuclear war… we saw further upheaval in Iran, with the people refusing to be put down and people all over the world on Saturday marching in solidarity… and we saw the system offering nothing but BEB* as an answer to all this. But the movement for revolution DOES have an answer, and this week we saw it “in living color.” Last Thursday, The Revolution, Nothing Less! YouTube show announced—and gave a preview of—a unique three-part interview with Bob Avakian, (BA), the most important thinker and leader on the planet today. If you have not yet seen this, go right now to watch it. Then watch it again. Put a comment on the bottom of the page with what you think, with how it provoked or challenged or inspired you. And, very important, give a donation to The RNL Show by becoming a Patreon or by donating here—a donation that will go to spreading this interview, and the show itself, to the thousands and then millions who are hungering for this kind of show but don’t know about it. Listen to what the hosts Andy Zee and Sunsara Taylor tell you about the significance of the coming interviews, the importance of as many people as possible seeing these interviews, and how to approach reaching that potential audience. Then, make a list of everyone you know and send them this preview. Let this interview with Bob Avakian provoke, challenge and inspire them. Ask them to call you or write you after they watch it and to make plans to watch the first full-length episode of this on November 3, to be followed with the second and third parts on November 10 and 17. If you are in a city where the revcoms are hosting a premiere or a watch party on November 3, make plans to go and help build it. If you are not, pull together your own watch party. Go to the special page with materials and guidance on how to get this interview in front of the eyes and ears of the people who need it. And prepare to struggle—and struggle hard. It is unconscionable for people to turn away from watching the interview because they are scared it will challenge them to leave their comfort zone and actually change their lives… or because they don’t think revolution is possible… or because of bullshit about “I heard it’s a cult” or “I don’t follow leaders” or “I don’t want to listen to a white man”… NO! Call bullshit where needed and struggle with people to watch these interviews and honestly confront what’s being said. The situation is too serious for humanity. The excerpt of the interview this past week centered on Ukraine. The full three-part interview itself ranges far and wide, all from the standpoint of hard-core revolution—nothing less and with all of BA’s heart and soul. You get the problem laid bare—AND you get the solution, the inspiring vision, and how to begin the hard work and struggle it will take to realize that vision.   A second big thing in the past week was the statement from the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist), “People of the World: Take up the Cry of Revolution from Iran as Your Own!” This powerful and poetic message went out to thousands of people in cities around the world who were demonstrating on October 22 in support of the Iranian people’s struggle. The Communist Party of Iran (MLM) bases itself on the new communism Bob Avakian has brought forward—a framework that breaks with those elements of communism before now which were not fully scientific. Go here for sights and sounds of these global protests on October 22. Washington, DC, October 22, 2022  Photo: revcom.us Both of these works—the three-part interview with BA and the statement from the Iranian comrades—are struggling with how people think. You sometimes hear it said that nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. There is a kernel of truth there—for in times of acute crises, ideas which correspond to “where things have to go” can grip the masses and, starting with just a handful, can topple empires… IF those who first take them up grasp them firmly, apply them and fight for them. But in today’s world, in BA’s leadership and work, we have more than “an idea”—we have the scientific approach to probing, analyzing and understanding the truth of why things are the way are and how they can be changed. In short, the problem and the solution. Listen: right now, things are posed more acutely in the U.S. than at any time in living memory. The climate crisis… the very immediate threat of global nuclear war… and the furious contention over how America will be ruled that reaches from the top to bottom of society… each of these pose an existential crisis. Bob Avakian has put forward a deep societal analysis and a whole roadmap for how these crises can be wrenched off their current horrific trajectory and we can actually get to a revolutionary emancipatory outcome. But that will take work and it will take struggle to forge what is needed, and possible: a revolutionary people in their millions with at least hundreds of tested leaders. And these interviews are a major instrument, a major weapon in that struggle right now… an “idea,” in the fullest sense of the word, whose time has come and must be, by those of you who are reading this, made real. *** USS George H.W. Bush, aircraft carrier, joining NATO command as tangible demonstration of the power and capability of the NATO Alliance, September 29, 2022.  Photo: US Navy This week, we also cover further developments on the ground in the Ukraine and Iran; give important background and resources on the history of Iran, as well as some of the important recent statements of the Communist Party of Iran (MLM); and the continuing fascist assault on the right to vote of Black people, Latinos and Native Americans. And we also answer the question above as to what is BEB—which is short for Bourgeois Electoral Bullshit. Look at the poster, and think about what you are told you have to choose between. Read the article on the fascist Republican assault on the right to vote, and see why the Democrats won’t even really fight the fascists on that. A transcript of the conversation between co-hosts Andy Zee and Sunsara Taylor on last week's The RNL Show on the significance of the new interview with Bob Avakian, and how to spread word of it, will be posted on this site by Monday night. Table of contents: * NEW! Latest episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less! Show: A leader for a time when the future hangs in the balance: Up Close and Personal With Bob Avakian Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution A Rare Appearance on The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on youtube/therevcoms Premiering November 3, 10, 17 * 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, by Bob Avakian * Organizing for an Actual Revolution: 7 Key Points * From the Communist Party of Iran (MLM): People of the World: Take up the Cry of Revolution from Iran as Your Own! * Iran Update... Powerful Nationwide Resistance Continues in the Face of Murderous Government Repression * October 22 protests in support of people’s struggle in Iran Taking the Communist Party of Iran (MLM) Statement On the Uprising in Iran to the D.C. Mass Protest Controversy, Contentious Struggle, and Wellspring of Openness Sights and Sounds from: U.S. and International Protests in Support of the Iran Uprising * Important Articles by Bob Avakian Opposing “Woke” Distractions and Obstructions A Serious Fight Against Injustice—Not a Petty Hustle for “Ownership” Pronouns and Starving Children BIPOC Leadership: There Is No Such Thing: The Fight Against Oppression and the Leadership That Is Needed Working with Black Panthers, Working for Revolution—Not “Woke Identity” Bullshit * Nuclear “Exercises” and Nuclear War: U.S./NATO and Russia Rehearsing Armageddon * Bob Avakian on the War in Ukraine: Essential Reading Clip from latest episode of The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less! Show: “Bob Avakian on Imperialist Gangsters & Humanity’s Future—A Sneak Peek From A Major New Interview!” “Legit Gangsters”—Gangsters with Nuclear Weapons (short version/longer version/video) Ukraine: World War 3 Is the Real Danger, Not a Repeat of World War 2 World War 3 and Dangerous Idiocy The War in Ukraine and the Interests of Humanity: A Scientific Revolutionary Approach vs. Harmful Confusion and Chauvinist Delusion. Bob Avakian Responds To People Who Should Know Better (and Maybe Once Did) * The Republican Party is Fascist. The Democratic Party is Also a Machine of Massive War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity * Fighting the Fascist Assault on Voting Rights, and Fighting for the Future: A 21st Century, Fascist Form of Second-Class Citizenship? HELL NO! Bob Avakian on: Defending the right to vote...and why having the right to do something is not the same as saying you should do it - Excerpt from the film REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN * Alabama Prisoners Strike “On Hold,” Struggle Against Death Camp Conditions Continues   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 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 Short Version—The Basic Truth: “LEGIT GANGSTERS”— GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS by Bob Avakian FEATURED: NEWS FROM THE REVCOMS (REVCOM.US): A DECLARATION, A CALL TO GET ORGANIZED NOW FOR A REAL REVOLUTION READ MORE THE WOMEN OF IRAN HAVE STOOD UP! THE PEOPLE OF IRAN ARE RAISING THEIR HEADS AND FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE BATONS AND BULLETS OF THE IRANIAN REGIME! WE NEED TO STAND WITH AND SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR STRUGGLE! UNLEASH THE FURY OF WOMEN AS A MIGHTY FORCE FOR REVOLUTION!! 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