As a consequence of the majority of folks in the world not getting with the program, and accepting that a cooperative world out performs a competitive world hands down, every time, we have spent another week enslaved by a system that most folks don't understand, nor care to understand if they have to miss DWTS, this week I am bringing to you an alternative I hadn't encountered before.
Maybe some of you will jump off the fence and join us down here in the rejected by crapitalism pile.
You'd think that after all the time I've spent in the melieu, I would have crossed paths with this guy before.
I'd heard his name, once or twice, but had no idea who he actually is.
Not until Alex Jones let one of the minions do a story on him.
I knew if Alex Jones was pointing fingers at it, and jumping up and down like clowns do, I'd probably like it.
One of the ways you can know you are on track, I've been told, is when you get deja vu.
If life gave you a premonition, then you are in the right spot.
It's like that when somebody thinks like you, too.
This guy has read the same books I have, lived in the same craptastic world, and come to the same conclusions I have.
Crapitalism is broken by design.
There is a better way to manage this world.
You, dear reader, have to decide for you, of course.
But, if you haven't read the man's words, but have only been told what he said by somebody else, you don't know the truth of what he said, you know a perspective, not your own, of what he said.
I find it best to go to the source, you gotta do what you do.
Bob Avakian is completely different than the endless stream of bourgeois politicians who are put forward as “leaders,” whose goal is to maintain one variation or another of this system of capitalism-imperialism that is founded on and perpetuates itself through cruel and literally life-stealing exploitation, murderous oppression, and massive destruction, in all parts of the world.
BA is a revolutionary who bases himself on the scientific understanding that this system must finally be overthrown through an organized struggle involving millions of people, and replaced with a system that is oriented to and capable of meeting the most fundamental needs of humanity and enabling humanity to become fit caretakers of the earth.
Bob Avakian is the architect of a whole new framework of human emancipation, the new synthesis of communism, which is popularly referred to as the “new communism.”
BA is the author of the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, an inspiring application of the new communism—a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for a new socialist society, whose fundamental goal is to bring about a world without classes and class distinctions, a world without exploitation and oppression, and without the destructive divisions and antagonisms among people: a communist world.
Ardea Skybreak, a scientist with professional training in ecology and evolutionary biology, and a follower of Bob Avakian, speaks to the importance of what he has brought forward:
Bob Avakian ... on the basis of decades of hard work [has been] developing a whole body of work—theory to advance the science of communism, to advance the science of revolution, to more deeply explain where the problems come from, what the strategy is for getting out of this mess, what the methods and approaches should be to stay on track and actually build a better world, to build a society that most human beings would want to live in.
(From Science and Revolution, On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism and the Leadership of Bob Avakian, An Interview with Ardea Skybreak)
BA is a leader who is firmly convinced, on the basis of a consistently scientific method and approach, that the goal must be nothing less than all-out revolution, and who at the same time has emphasized:
The new communism thoroughly repudiates and is determined to root out of the communist movement the poisonous notion, and practice, that “the ends justifies the means.”
It is a bedrock principle of the new communism that the “means” of this movement must flow from and be consistent with the fundamental “ends” of abolishing all exploitation and oppression through revolution led on a scientific basis.
(From Breakthroughs: The Historic Breakthrough by Marx, and the Further Breakthrough with the New Communism, A Basic Summary)
As a revolutionary leader, BA also embodies this rare combination: someone who has been able to develop scientific theory on a world-class level, while at the same time having a deep understanding of and visceral connection with the most oppressed, and a highly developed ability to “break down” complex theory and make it broadly accessible.
A leader like this has never before existed in the history of this country, and this leadership is of tremendous importance for the emancipation of all humanity.
What is urgently needed now is for continually growing numbers of people—in the thousands, and ultimately millions—to become conscious and active followers of BA, building the revolutionary movement, based on the new communism, for which BA provides this unprecedented leadership.
