The Crossroads We Face -- The Leadership We Need
The new issue of Revolution is out!
The newspaper needs to get out broadly -- we aim to get out thousands in the NYC area, your contributions will make this a reality. Take as many broadsheets as you can distribute; Donate as much as you can. Get donations from friends, family, co-workers, the passer bys on the street. The aim is to introduce Bob Avakian -- "He is someone who has persisted in confronting the hardest, most excruciating questions before humanity. In so doing, he’s taken the communist understanding of the world and how to change it to a new place. The answers he’s brought forward and the pathways he’s forged demand a serious look—a deep engagement—from everyone concerned about the future of humanity."
By the Editors of Revolution
The situation we face—the situation the whole planet faces—cries out for change. Urgently. Look around, with fresh eyes. See:
• the bloody wars—now raging in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Iran looming next, and no end in sight. All in the name of “safety”… and all for the sake of empire;
• the lopsidedness of today’s world: the starvation, the agonizing—but curable—diseases, and the desperation that rages in the oppressed regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America… and the unimaginable wealth and luxury in the dominant (and dominating) nations… wealth and luxury in large part drawn from that very lopsidedness;
• the brutal oppression of whole peoples, from New Orleans to the U.S.-Mexican border to the ghettos, barrios, and reservations beyond. Oppression rooted in this country's brutal history and now taking twisted new forms… where the penitentiary replaces the plantation and the millions of immigrants are driven, before our eyes, into a new form of servitude;
• the age-old subjugation of women, encoded in custom, law, and family—and today reinforced with growing reactionary virulence;
• the enforced ignorance that squanders the potential of human beings… accelerated in these times by the mushrooming of fascist movements based on fundamentalist religion;
• and the blind pursuit of profit—the essence and the heartbeat of capitalism—that rushes headlong as the planet itself burns.
All this and more has persisted for generations. All this and more assumes ever more perverse forms. All this and more cries out for radical change.
The “conventional wisdom” says that fundamental change is unrealistic, even impossible. But in reality the most “unrealistic” thing in the world is to hope to touch things up around the edges, to put your trust in official channels and established authority, while things continually get worse. If a different—a better—world is possible, you’ve got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being.
That demands leadership. And that is where Bob Avakian comes in.
Read the whole article: http://www.revcom.us/avakian/crossroads/index.html
Be part of putting this broadsheet in the hands, hearts and minds of millions!
The newspaper needs to get out broadly -- we aim to get out thousands in the NYC area, your contributions will make this a reality. Take as many broadsheets as you can distribute; Donate as much as you can. Get donations from friends, family, co-workers, the passer bys on the street. The aim is to introduce Bob Avakian -- "He is someone who has persisted in confronting the hardest, most excruciating questions before humanity. In so doing, he’s taken the communist understanding of the world and how to change it to a new place. The answers he’s brought forward and the pathways he’s forged demand a serious look—a deep engagement—from everyone concerned about the future of humanity."
By the Editors of Revolution
The situation we face—the situation the whole planet faces—cries out for change. Urgently. Look around, with fresh eyes. See:
• the bloody wars—now raging in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Iran looming next, and no end in sight. All in the name of “safety”… and all for the sake of empire;
• the lopsidedness of today’s world: the starvation, the agonizing—but curable—diseases, and the desperation that rages in the oppressed regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America… and the unimaginable wealth and luxury in the dominant (and dominating) nations… wealth and luxury in large part drawn from that very lopsidedness;
• the brutal oppression of whole peoples, from New Orleans to the U.S.-Mexican border to the ghettos, barrios, and reservations beyond. Oppression rooted in this country's brutal history and now taking twisted new forms… where the penitentiary replaces the plantation and the millions of immigrants are driven, before our eyes, into a new form of servitude;
• the age-old subjugation of women, encoded in custom, law, and family—and today reinforced with growing reactionary virulence;
• the enforced ignorance that squanders the potential of human beings… accelerated in these times by the mushrooming of fascist movements based on fundamentalist religion;
• and the blind pursuit of profit—the essence and the heartbeat of capitalism—that rushes headlong as the planet itself burns.
All this and more has persisted for generations. All this and more assumes ever more perverse forms. All this and more cries out for radical change.
The “conventional wisdom” says that fundamental change is unrealistic, even impossible. But in reality the most “unrealistic” thing in the world is to hope to touch things up around the edges, to put your trust in official channels and established authority, while things continually get worse. If a different—a better—world is possible, you’ve got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being.
That demands leadership. And that is where Bob Avakian comes in.
Read the whole article: http://www.revcom.us/avakian/crossroads/index.html
Be part of putting this broadsheet in the hands, hearts and minds of millions!
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