"After 'Change You Can Believe In,' Wally Shawn reads from his Essays and discusses human nature with a communist."

I thought it was refreshing to hear people so articulately express what I've always felt and what I sometimes have trouble expressing. I thought they raised a lot of really good points. Especially the questions about human nature...

Woman in her 20s, NYU alumnus

On Friday night, January 8, 285+ people packed into Friends Meeting House in New York City for an evening titled "After 'Change You Can Believe In,' Wally Shawn reads from his Essays and discusses human nature with a communist."

After reading his essay "The Quest for Superiority," playwright and actor Wally Shawn sat down for a probing conversation with Andy Zee, spokesperson for Revolution Books. The audience, which included people in theater, publishing, film, and academia, as well as activists and students, really welcomed and listened intently to what was a serious discussion of deep and urgent questions facing humanity. Significantly, Wallace Shawn took part in the evening in order to help save Revolution Books, and the event raised several thousand dollars towards the store's $100,000 Fund Drive. Look to Revolution newspaper (revcom.us) for future coverage.

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"What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these 'outmodeds,' you end up strengthening both."

Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the RCP,USA
From the talk, “Why We’re in the Situation We’re in Today… And What to Do About It: A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution”

"In a world marked by profound class divisions and social inequality, to talk about “democracy”— without talking about the class nature of that democracy and which class it serves—is meaningless, and worse. So long as society is divided into classes, there can be no 'democracy for all': one class or another will rule, and it will uphold and promote that kind of democracy which serves its interests and goals. The question is: which class will rule and whether its rule, and its system of democracy, will serve the continuation, or the eventual abolition, of class divisions and the corresponding relations of exploitation, oppression and inequality."

Bob Avakian

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