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This is Bob Avakian—REVOLUTION, number 107—a special holiday message, 2024:
God-Damn the Trump/MAGA Fascists, Every One! And God-Damn Everyone Who Tells Us to “Get Along” And “Play Nice” With These Fascists!
With people who support Trump, nothing good can come from trying to “understand” them on their own terms. No matter who they are—and no matter what reason or rationalization they give for doing so—they are supporting fascism, with everything that means. (In a number of previous messages, most recently in message #105, I have laid out very clearly what it means—the very real horror of this fascism—on top of the ongoing horrors perpetrated by this system of capitalism-imperialism as a whole.)
Unless and until people who have supported Trump admit they are wrong, and face up to what they have done in supporting MAGA fascism, there can be no principled way to “get along” with them; and, instead, in any involvement with them, they need to be sharply confronted—called out and firmly held to account for the fascism they have responsibility for supporting and enabling.
Once more: This is not a time for demoralization or despair—and it is definitely not a time for completely wrong-headed and extremely harmful attempts to find “common ground” with fascism and those who support it.
What is needed is an offensive orientation in challenging this fascism—bold defiance and a determined refusal to go along with any of this—now, and in an ongoing way.
And: This is a time for righteous anger and revolutionary determination in the face of this fascism, and the whole system that has given rise to this fascism, along with all its other atrocities (atrocities which I have shined a light on through these messages as a whole, and which are analyzed extensively and in depth in the American Crime series at revcom.us).
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With Trump fascism barreling ahead, it is time to look seriously outside and beyond the confines of this monstrous system. This is why you should contribute to get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere.
Through his social media, Bob Avakian—the revolutionary leader and architect of the new communism—shows why revolution is more possible in this time and how to seize on this to put a far better system in place: a new socialist republic on the road to real emancipation for humanity here and around the world. He lays bare where this fascism comes from and why it can't be defeated on the terms of the monstrous system that gave rise to it. No one else is providing the leadership needed in this urgent time... no other leader is even talking about making a real revolution.
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The Bob Avakian Post-Election Playlist: A Time for Righteous Anger & Revolutionary Determination Take the Offensive Against Trump MAGA Fascism…THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM'S GOT TO GO!
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** Thank You, Bob Avakian... Being a “baby boomer,” I have lived in a “best of all worlds” until the truth got through to me, and is getting more developed as Fascism gathers the ignorant (willfully or not), the money and power-chasers (primarily the rich and powerful, greedy death affirming) to itself. It bodes darkness, death and destruction for all life on planet Earth, the only home we have ever known. These blatant, desperate criminals rule must be stopped! You are a Hero (wise and courageous, armed with the truth). With Deep respect.
** I'm signing up for the life of my great grand-kids!
On Revolution #102:
Two Countries Within This Country and the Whole Damn System’s Got to Go! This is not a time for demoralization and despair. It is a time for righteous anger and revolutionary determination.
** He is absolutely right! He speaks facts and the truth.
** This is exactly what I need to hear. The destruction of our planet CANNOT CONTINUE. This system must be decisively defeated.
** Good stuff Bob! Those who don't want to hear the truth will cover their ears and keep spewing hate and nonsense. Those who aren't hopeless will listen.
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Two days after the election of Donald Trump, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian said:
This is not a time for demoralization and despair—it is a time for righteous anger and revolutionary determination.
As we face the extreme danger of an all-out fascist America... on top of environmental devastation... genocide... the danger of nuclear war. This is why Bob Avakian has also said:
We can no longer afford to allow these imperialists to continue to dominate the world and determine the destiny of humanity... humanity does not have to live this way!
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Bob Avakian (BA) has analyzed that "This election brings out sharply that there really are 'two countries' within this country." That this is a "fundamental division that has existed since the beginning of the so-called 'United States' of America, with its foundation in slavery and genocide..." And that "This division into 'two countries' can find no good resolution under this system."
The fascist side of this divide is unleashed and on the march—itching for their time of open white supremacy, hurling women and LGBT people backwards, ethnic cleansing through mass deportations, theocratic rule and rule through open violence and terror. But we—the decent people who care about humanity and the future—cannot hand these fascists the future.
Through his social media platform, @BobAvakianOfficial, he breaks down why “so long as things are on the terms of this system—and limited within the confines of this system—the fascists will have initiative which decent people cannot have.” He is challenging people to "look seriously for solutions outside and beyond this system." He is the only leader in this country even talking about making a real revolution. A leader with a whole new framework for human emancipation.
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Bob Avakian goes up against the idea that people should hunker down to try to weather this fascism, just trying to take care of their friends and neighbors... he answers why it is deadly to rely on the Democratic Party, a party of war crimes which is actively facilitating this fascism... and he challenges the notion that people should keep trying to make this system work—an outmoded thoroughly oppressive system that has given rise to this fascism and so many other atrocities.
The fact is that a radically different, and far better, society is possible. BA has authored the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America which provides a concrete blueprint and sweeping vision for a whole different way society can be organized, a society on the road to real emancipation for humanity here and around the world.
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Latest dispatch from @BobAvakianOfficial
This is Bob Avakian—REVOLUTION—number 104.
Right after the election, one of the revcoms wrote up these very important points of orientation that speak to this question:
To those who might say, “Trump just won in a landslide, how are you going to win people to revolution?”—the answer is: A) Because it’s not the same people; B) There are still tens of millions of people vehemently opposed to fascism; and C) We don’t need to win over the majority of people to be actively involved in this revolution.... we need to win over thousands in order to reach, influence, and lead millions.
The first point (A) is another way of getting at the crucial reality that I emphasized in my message #102: There are “two countries” within this so-called “United States.” Contrary to what is constantly being declared, including in the “mainstream” media, the “American people” did not vote for the fascist Trump. Basically, of those people who voted, half voted for Trump and fascism. At the same time, the other half voted against Trump and (as emphasized in point B above) there are huge numbers of people who are “vehemently opposed” to this fascism. Once more: “two countries” within this so-called “United States.”
This division cannot be covered over and cannot be resolved, in any positive way, within the confines of this system of capitalism-imperialism.And:
So long as the horizons of people are limited to what is possible within the confines of this system—so long as people believe that the only “realistic choices,” in terms of the direction of society, involve supporting one or another ruling class party of this system (Democrat or Republican)—the result will be a continuation of horrors.
To refer back to my message #101: When this system presents us with the “choice” between a lunatic racist, woman-hating, all-around fascist (Donald Trump) and a genocidal war criminal (Kamala Harris), it is time to recognize that this system is a thoroughly rotten, monstrously criminal, massively destructive, thoroughly outmoded system—long past the time when it can represent anything positive. (And in case people are not paying attention, the Biden/Harris administration is continuing to give full support—providing arms and backing—to Israel as it even further intensifies its genocide in Gaza and its massive slaughter and destruction in Lebanon.)
As I emphasized in message #102:
That is just the point: Things must no longer remain, and continue to be confined, on the terms and within the limits of this system and its ruling class.
It is time to look seriously for solutions outside and beyondthis system.
It is time for a revolution to overthrow and uproot this whole system and bring into being a fundamentally different and much better system.
There is a need, and there is a basis, to bring forward a hardcore force of revolutionaries who have broken fundamentally with this whole system, which has brought forth this fascism, along with all its other atrocities. People who have gained the scientific understanding—and, on that basis, have the heart and determination—to make the sacrifices that are necessary not only to give leadership and direction to the determined resistance that must be built against this fascism, but also to win continually growing numbers of people to actively work for the revolution that is urgently needed to finally do away with this whole monstrous system.
This relates to the important point C. Revolutions do not come about with all of those who want a positive radical change actively involved in fighting for that revolution, while all those who oppose that positive radical change are actively fighting on the other side.
Instead, on each side there are the backbone forces directly involved in the fight, while greater numbers of people support one side or the other, or have a position of “friendly neutrality” toward one side or the other (while some try to “sit it out” or go back and forth between one side and the other).
In this country that would mean (as stated in point C) winning over thousands in order to reach, influence, and lead millions to be actively involved in the revolution—with many millions more supporting or at least sympathizing with the revolution. (Yes, that includes winning over some people from the other side, through the course of the revolution—winning them over on the basis of the strength, determination and resoluteness of the revolutionary forces.)
In the context of this all-out revolutionary fight, what have been the dominant institutions of this system are likely to split and break apart in significant ways, with the prospect of winning significant numbers to the revolution.
In order to have a real chance to bring this about, it is necessary to sharply expose and actively oppose not only the fascism spearheaded by Trump, but the whole putrid system out of whose rotting soil this fascism has grown. As I also emphasized in message #102, this means “finally and decisively defeating” this fascism—“and doing so as part of putting an end to this whole system which has given rise to this fascism, along with all its other atrocities” (atrocities which are built into this system; atrocities which I have brought to light through these messages as a whole, and which are analyzed extensively and in depth in the American Crime series at revcom.us).
I will end, for now, with this basic point, drawing from crucial history of this country:
Leading into the Civil War in the 1860s, the election of Lincoln as President was the “last straw” that propelled the slave-owners in the South to break with the “United States” and wage war to maintain their slave-based Confederacy. Today, for those opposed to slavery and oppression in every form, this election of the fascist Trump must be the “last straw” which propels a revolutionary struggle to break with, and bring down, this whole system which, as I have shown over and over again, rests on ruthless exploitation and murderous oppression, and which has now given rise to this fascism, as the direct political descendant of the slave-owning Confederacy.
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