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DESCRIPTION:Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong...Capitalism is a 
 Failure...The New Communist Revolution is the Solution!\n\nCome Hear 
 Raymond Lotta.\nRaymond Lotta is an advocate for the new communism 
 developed by Bob Avakian.  Raymond has written widely on the Russian and 
 Chinese Revolutions, imperialist globalization, and principles of socialist 
 sustainable development.\n\nRaymond Lotta cracks open great debate about 
 the past and future of communist revolution, and\nthe future of humanity. 
 He opens people’s eyes to the new communism—a whole new framework for 
 human emancipation—developed by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian. And 
 he challenges people to step into the revolution to change 
 everything!\n\nRaymond Lotta calls out the anti-communist brainwash 
 you’re getting, that seeps into every pore of intellectual life so 
 deeply, that it constrains your thinking and sense of human possibility in 
 ways you’re not even aware of. At a time when real communist revolution 
 is so urgently needed.\n\nA State of Emergency...A World That Cries Out for 
 Revolution\n\nLook, we’re facing a state of emergency. Genocide in Gaza 
 and the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran...the climate crisis careening towards 
 catastrophe...the fascist Trump regime unleashing open white supremacy, 
 vile hatred of women and trans people, terrorizing immigrants, and 
 shredding basic rights.The danger of is growing of world war, nuclear war 
 grows. Capitalism-imperialism is the cause of this—with the US the #1 
 oppressor and plunderer in the world.\n\nBut there IS a way out of this 
 horror: a liberatory revolution guided by the new communism. And\nwe’re 
 living in a rare time when that revolution is not only more needed but more 
 possible. The Republi-fascists and war-criminal Democrats are at each 
 other’s throats; and society is being ripped apart.\n\nBut communist 
 revolution has been ruled off the agenda. You’ve been told and taught in 
 a million different ways that the Russian and Chinese revolutions were 
 “utopian projects” that turned into “totalitarian nightmares.” 
 Sure, the story-line goes, capitalism may have its flaws, but communism is 
 going to lead to “total control,” “mass conformity,” and 
 “senseless violence.”\n\nWell, this is self-serving bullshit drilled 
 into people’s heads by this nightmare of a system—by its\n“experts” 
 and ideologues to keep you locked into the system. The verdict that 
 communism is a failure is built on lies and distortions. Think about the 
 lies justifying the genocide in Gaza, or the war on Iran. Well, multiply 
 that a 1000-fold when it comes to the lies and slanders about communism. 
 This puts a lid on people’s capacity to conceive of a world beyond 
 capitalism.\n\nYet because of the work done by Bob Avakian, there is not 
 only a way to scientifically understand the momentous and liberating 
 breakthroughs, as well as the errors, even grievous errors, of the 
 socialist revolutions in the Soviet Union (1917-56) and China (1949-76). 
 There is now a way to go beyond them, to a qualitatively more emancipating 
 future. And there is the strategy and leadership to make the revolution 
 that humanity needs.\n\nBob Avakian has written the Constitution for the 
 New Socialist Republic in North America. A core feature of the new 
 communism is the importance in socialist society of intellectual and 
 cultural ferment, and the protection and promotion of dissent, way beyond 
 anything that has existed in this society—indeed on a scale unseen in 
 human history. In a framework of a society moving to end all exploitation 
 and oppression.\n\nCome hear the truth about communism. Be part of this 
 urgent discussion and debate\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/05/25/18886392.php
SUMMARY:Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong...Capitalism is a Failure...
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