Get Into Bob Avakian--BA--and get into the campaign to raise the funds to get BA Everywhere
Film clip showing and discussion
Saturday, April 23, 5-7 pm
Revolution Books
1103 N Ashland
You're
invited to watch a few clips with us! This is part of building the
nationwide campaign to get BA Everywhere. We aim to raise the serious
funds required to make Bob Avakian (BA) known throughout all of society.
Who is Bob Avakian? He's the leader of a new stage of communist
revolution!
Join
us to watch clips of videos of talks by BA, talk about them, enjoy
refreshments, raise funds, and make plans for spreading BA Everywhere
this spring and summer.
Revolution
Books' mission is to build community among those who are deeply
concerned about the state of the world. Bob Avakian's work and
leadership are at the core of what we stand for. He is someone who
speaks so deeply about what the most oppressed people in this society
and the world are experiencing and at the same time explains so clearly
WHY the world is a horror and HOW it could be different. This is
like nothing you've ever heard--in a world where the only choices on
offer are aiming to lead people back into the confines of the very
system causing immeasurable damage to the planet and its people, Avakian
is pointing a way out for humanity. As he says "We can change the whole world together with people all over the world."
Come find out who Bob Avakian is and what he's saying. Learn more and find links to BA film clips here.
Come to Revolution Books anytime during Friday and Saturday open hours--we will be showing clips of BA and welcome informal discussion.
Information about Bob Avakian from the BA Everywhere campaign:
Bob
Avakian came out of the struggles of the 1960s, working closely with
the Black Panther Party and other radical movements of the times. In
1975, he led in forming the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. He is
leading the Party, and the movement for an actual revolution in the
U.S., theoretically and practically. After the defeats of the
first socialist revolutions in the 20th century, first in the former
Soviet Union in the mid-1950s, and then in China in 1976 after the death
of Mao, BA went deeply into this experience--learning from and firmly
upholding and defending the path-breaking achievements of these
revolutions, while also scientifically probing and summing up their
shortcomings. On the basis of this, and drawing from broader inquiry,
including advances in science, history, philosophy and culture, Bob
Avakian has developed a new synthesis of communism that builds
on this experience and is a leap beyond, and, in some important
dimensions, a rupture with what came before--enabling humanity to do
even better in the revolutions to come. The scientific
understanding of human society--how it developed, the nature of
capitalism, and the material basis for communism, for human
emancipation--was the historic breakthrough and achievement of Karl Marx
over 150 years ago. The world would not be the same after Marx. What Bob Avakian has done represents work of that significance and on that level.
As a leader, BA embodies a rare combination of someone who has
developed scientific theory on a world-class level while having a deep
understanding of and a visceral connection with the most oppressed. He
makes the science of revolution accessible to the millions who need it.
He does this with tremendous heart and faith in the potential and
ability of people to come to understand what it will take to bring a
radically different world into being and, on that basis, become
emancipators of humanity. For more information on Bob Avakian and his work, go to revcom.us/avakian or thebobavakianinstitute.org | 
