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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on 2024 SCENARIOS (A SKETCH), AND THE 
 CHALLENGES.\n\nLooking ahead, over the course of this year—and 
 specifically as things are very likely to be focused, to a very great 
 extent, in relation to the 2024 election—the following are (not the only 
 possible but are realistically possible) scenarios that need to be 
 anticipated, not in some abstract sense but specifically in terms of the 
 necessity and challenges we will face as things unfold, from the standpoint 
 of the urgently needed repolarization for revolution.\n\n* The Democrats 
 win the presidential election—and the Republicans refuse to accept the 
 results, with everything that would imply.\n\n* The Republicans 
 win—“legitimately,” or at least in a way that is ruled “legal.” 
 This is probably the worst-case scenario. In one important dimension, it 
 would pose very sharply the need for overcoming the spontaneity, among 
 significant numbers of people opposed to the Republi-fascists that 
 “nothing can be done” (“what can you do?”). At the same time, along 
 with mass discontent, there would very likely be “spontaneous” mass 
 outpouring of opposition, and the phenomenon spoken to in 
 Revolution—Building Up The Basis To Go For The Whole Thing, With A Real 
 Chance To Win: Strategic Orientation And Practical Approach (and cited 
 shortly below here) of different organized forces in the field, seeking to 
 take things in different directions.\n\n*There is no election—with all 
 the tumult, chaos, etc., that would accompany this scenario.\n\nOnce again, 
 in relation to all of these (and other possible) scenarios, the challenge 
 will be repolarization—for revolution. (In this regard, it is important 
 to cast away illusions and keep in mind that, especially if the 
 Republi-fascists do win the election, there would be people whom you might 
 expect to be opposed to the fascists who would instead actually rally to 
 their camp—including some basic oppressed people—and this emphasizes 
 from yet another angle the crucial importance of repolarization, for 
 revolution, through ferocious ideological struggle, as well as concrete 
 action, all along the way, as well as specifically in those particular 
 circumstances.)\n\nRead the whole article 
 here:https://revcom.us/en#scenarios\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/19/18862205.php
SUMMARY:A Discussion of 2024 SCENARIOS (A SKETCH), AND THE CHALLENGES by Bob Avakian
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/19/18862205.php
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