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DESCRIPTION:A Whole New-and Far Better-World": Getting into the BAsics\nDiscussion of 
 Chapter 2 of BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian No 
 experience needed, just come to listen or share your favorite quote, and 
 talk about why:\n   "Communism: A Whole New World and the Emancipation of 
 All Humanity-Not ''The Last Shall Be First, and the First Shall Be 
 Last.'"\n\n    "Marx said about the future world, the world of communism, 
 that it will seem as ridiculous and outrageous for one part of society to 
 privately own the land, and everything that goes along with that, as it now 
 seems for one human being to own another. Communism will mean that we have 
 reached the point where the very idea that the way society should advance 
 is for a few to benefit and then to proclaim that to be in the general 
 interest of the society, where that idea will seem so ridiculous and 
 outrageous that in a certain sense, to put it simply, it couldn't get a 
 hearing."\n\n     "It is right to want state power. It is necessary to want 
 state power. State power is a good thing-state power is a great thing-in 
 the hands of the right people, the right class, in the service of the right 
 things: bringing about an end to exploitation, oppression, and social 
 inequality and bringing into being a world, a communist world, in which 
 human beings can flourish in new and greater ways than ever before."\n\n    
 "In socialist society, there needs to be struggle, and 
 criticism/self-criticism, but there also needs to be "air" for people to 
 breathe, room for them to disagree, allowance for them to come to the 
 truths that Marxism reveals in their own way-and allowance for Marxism 
 itself to breathe and grow, to discard outmoded concepts and analyses and 
 to deepen its reflection of reality, as the liberating science it is, in 
 opposition to suffocating religious dogma."\n\n\nBAsics is a new book of 
 quotes and essays from Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist 
 Party, USA. BAsics concentrates more than 30 years of Avakian's work on 
 everything standing between humanity and complete emancipation into a 
 single concise book of essential quotes and short essays.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/28/18683202.php
SUMMARY:"A Whole New-and Far Better-World": Getting into the BAsics
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way (in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue).Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/28/18683202.php
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