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DESCRIPTION:Revolution Books presents: Re-Envisioning Revolution and Communism: What is 
 Bob Avakian's New Synthesis?Presentation followed by discussion.\nON A 
 PLANET WHERE BILLIONS LIVE A DAY AWAY FROM STARVATION...where the lives of 
 millions of children are cut short by curable diseases...where brutal wars 
 grind on in Iraq and Afghanistan and hellholes like Guantanamo stay open 
 for business..where nooses spring up like weeds,immigrants are hunted and 
 the availability of abortion is rapidly disappearing...where youth are 
 either treated like criminals or commodities.. and where all of this is 
 totally UNNECESSARY---the world badly needs revolution. Revolutionary state 
 power will set about ending these horrors and meeting the pressing needs of 
 the people.But a truly emancipatory socialism must do more than that. It 
 must lay the basis and take concrete steps,towards a society where people 
 consciously change the world and themselves ,in a society of freely 
 associating human beings and where the need for any kind of state has been 
 surpassed. In that  light, Bob Avakian has done path-breaking work to go 
 beyond event the best of the previous socialist societies and re-envision a 
 socialism that is both visionary and viable. His new synthesis has tackled 
 a whole realm of questions, including:\nHOW DOES THE NEW REVOLUTIONARY 
 POWER MAINTAIN POWER AND maintain it as a power worth keeping? How does it 
 not just survive in a world dominated by imperialism,but also do that as a 
 base area for further revolutions?\nWHAT WOULD BE THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL 
 RIGHTS,civil society, and politics outside of the purview of the state?What 
 would be the role of a constitution  and elections? Why would this 
 re-envisioned society not only tolerate,but foster dissent?\nWHAT WOULD THE 
 RELATION BETWEEN SCIENTISTS,ARTISTS,AND INTELLECTUALS, carrying out urgent 
 work to meet the most pressing needs of society and at the same time 
 pursuing work,experimentation, and exploration not tied to those kinds of 
 immediate goals? How would the age old division between those who work with 
 ideas and those who are locked out of that overcome--in a way that does not 
 sacrifice but actually enhances vibrancy and intellectual ferment 
 throughout society in an unprecedented ways?\nWHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF A 
 FEARLESS ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE TRUTH and what have been the shortcomings and 
 blunders in regard to this in the communist movement as it developed?\nHOW 
 DOES THIS NEW SYNTHESIS BOTH CONTINUE ON THE PATH FIRST CHARTED BY 
 MARX,LENIN AND MAO- AND YET GO BEYOND IT, IN NEW AND CRUCIAL WAYS?\nCome 
 hear this presentation and wrangle over all of this.\nBob Avakian is the 
 leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA.And he is more than that: 
 he's an innovative  and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new 
 place;he's a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to 
 religion,doo-wop music to science, and he's a pit bull fighter against 
 oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his 
 irrepressible sense of humor.\n*Bob Avakian will not be in attendance at 
 this event.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/05/18483843.php
SUMMARY:Presentation on New Synthesis: Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism
LOCATION:Black Reperatory Theatre\n3201 Adeline St\nBerkeley, CA (1 block south of 
 the Ashby BART station)\n$10 sliding scale admission
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/05/18483843.php
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