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DESCRIPTION:WHAT IS SOCIALISM? WHAT WOULD A REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETY LOOK LIKE?\n\nJoin us 
 and bring your questions. \nThis discussion will draw from the article by 
 Bob Avakian, ANSWERING IGNORANT AND IDIOTIC IDEAS, Part 2:\n\n"Only with 
 revolutionary socialist state power can a truly emancipating society 
 actually exist, be sustained, and advance toward the fundamental goal of 
 abolishing and uprooting exploitation and oppression, everywhere, with the 
 achievement of communism, throughout the world.\n\n"It is a widely held 
 “article of faith” these days, among forces that consider themselves 
 “left” or “progressive,” that all dictatorships are, by their very 
 nature, bad, and the (only) positive alternative to this is 
 “democracy.” More particularly, anarchists vehemently insist that 
 state power—the exercise of institutionalized power over society by any 
 one part of society—is, by its very nature, dictatorial, and therefore 
 oppressive, and the goal must be to eliminate (or “smash”) the state 
 altogether.\n\n"These arguments are false and reflect a fundamental 
 ignorance (or deliberate ignore-ance) of crucial reality: They fail to 
 understand scientifically (or refuse to recognize the 
 scientifically-established truth regarding) the basic relations in society, 
 the prospects for a truly emancipating society, and what is required in 
 order to bring this about." \nRead the whole article 
 here.\nhttps://revcom.us/en/bob_avakian/answering-ignorant-and-idiotic-ideaspart-2\n\nWatch 
 this video of Bob Avakian: What would a future revolutionary society look 
 like?\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGl7firMhhs\n***\nEvent related 
 book:\nConstitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft 
 Proposal) Authored by Bob Avakian, 
 \nhttps://revcom.us/sites/default/files/socialistconstitution/SocialistConstitution-en.pdf\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/08/05/18887824.php
SUMMARY:What is Socialism? What Would A Future Revolutionary Society Look Like?
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2444 Durant Avenue\nBerkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/08/05/18887824.php
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