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DESCRIPTION:"Where We Are in the Revolution"\n7pm Thursday May 15\nPacific Film Archive 
 Theater\n2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley (on the UCB campus)\n\nThe world needs 
 a revolution. We need a radically new way of living, of relating to each 
 other and the environment. People are needlessly suffering and dying every 
 single day on account of this system. This must STOP—and it can stop.\n\n 
 But it can stop only if this capitalist-imperialist system is radically 
 overturned and something new is brought into being. That requires a 
 revolution. We need a whole new state power—one which will mobilize and 
 back up masses of people in transforming society out of the madness of 
 today and toward actual human emancipation. We need a new state power which 
 could organize an economy to meet the people's material needs at the same 
 time as it overcomes exploitation and inequality, and does so without 
 plundering and warring on other nations or destroying the planet. We need a 
 new state power which not only leads people to overcome and abolish the 
 class divisions and inequalities that exist between groups of people, but 
 to get rid of the oppressive institutions like white supremacy and male 
 domination, and get beyond the ways of thinking that back up the rotten, 
 backward order of today. The ultimate goal of this revolution and this new 
 state power is communism: a world where people work and struggle together 
 for the common good... where everyone contributes whatever they can to 
 society and gets back what they need to live a life worthy of human 
 beings... where there are no more divisions among the people in which some 
 rule over and oppress others, robbing them not only of the means to a 
 decent life but also of knowledge and a means for really understanding, and 
 acting to change, the world.\n\n This May an important talk will be given 
 in several major cities addressing how this could be done. This talk will 
 dig into the strategy for making that revolution—seizing power—right 
 here in the U.S. as our share in and as the first step towards struggling 
 for such a world. While it is not yet time to actually go for the all-out 
 seizure of power—the conditions to do so, which require a deep crisis in 
 society and people in their millions having been won to the goal of 
 revolution, do not yet exist—the talk will lay out how things could be 
 brought to that point, through a combination of developments in the world 
 and the active work of the movement for revolution, with the Party as its 
 leading core. The talk will specifically discuss the movement today in 
 relation to getting to that goal—including what must be done right now to 
 propel things further toward the day when such a struggle could be 
 launched, and how to make everything we're doing now contribute to that. It 
 will get into the need to strengthen the leading core for this revolution, 
 the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, led by Bob Avakian.\n\n If you have 
 ever hungered for a way out of this suffering and madness... if you care 
 about justice... if you today or at any time have thought we need a better 
 world but despaired that such a world could be achieved... come to this 
 talk. As Bob Avakian has said:\n\n     Revolution is not an impossible 
 dream. It is not "unrealistic." Changing all of society, changing the whole 
 world, is not a crazy or dangerous idea. What is crazy, and dangerous, is 
 going along with the way things are, and where things are heading, under 
 this system. Revolution—a radical change in how society works, how we 
 relate as human beings, what our values are, how we understand the world 
 and act to affect it—this is what we, what people all over the world, 
 desperately need. And it is a lot more realistic than trying to "fix" this 
 system.\n\n Come to this talk. Find out about this revolution, and where we 
 are in the process of making this revolution. Learn how to become part of 
 emancipating humanity.\n\n We ARE Building a Movement for Revolution, and 
 Building the Party as Its Leading Core.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/11/18755642.php
SUMMARY:"Where We Are in the Revolution" speech 5-15-14
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater\n2575 Bancroft Way\nBerkeley, CA  94720
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/11/18755642.php
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