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Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong...Capitalism is a Failure...
Date:
Saturday, June 06, 2026
Time:
6:00 PM
-
8:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Revolution Books
Location Details:
2444 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, Ca 94704
Berkeley, Ca 94704
Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong...Capitalism is a Failure...The New Communist Revolution is the Solution!
Come Hear Raymond Lotta.
Raymond 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.
Raymond Lotta cracks open great debate about the past and future of communist revolution, and
the 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!
Raymond 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.
A State of Emergency...A World That Cries Out for Revolution
Look, 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.
But there IS a way out of this horror: a liberatory revolution guided by the new communism. And
we’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.
But 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.”
Well, this is self-serving bullshit drilled into people’s heads by this nightmare of a system—by its
“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.
Yet 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.
Bob 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.
Come hear the truth about communism. Be part of this urgent discussion and debate
Come Hear Raymond Lotta.
Raymond 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.
Raymond Lotta cracks open great debate about the past and future of communist revolution, and
the 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!
Raymond 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.
A State of Emergency...A World That Cries Out for Revolution
Look, 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.
But there IS a way out of this horror: a liberatory revolution guided by the new communism. And
we’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.
But 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.”
Well, this is self-serving bullshit drilled into people’s heads by this nightmare of a system—by its
“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.
Yet 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.
Bob 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.
Come hear the truth about communism. Be part of this urgent discussion and debate
For more information:
http://revolutionbooks.org
Added to the calendar on Mon, May 25, 2026 12:24PM
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