A Mass Campaign to Raise Big Money to Get BA’s Vision and Works Into Every Corner of Society
Because of BA and the work he has done over several
decades, summing up the positive and negative experience of
the communist revolution so far, and drawing from a broad
range of human experience, there is a new synthesis of
communism that has been brought forward—there really is a
viable vision and strategy for a radically new, and much
better, society and world, and there is the crucial
leadership that is needed to carry forward the struggle
toward that goal.
Learn more...
Bob Avakian on
"BA Everywhere"...
Check out the section "New Initiators of a New Stage of Communism" in the interview WHAT HUMANITY NEEDS: Revolution, and the New Synthesis of Communism
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Imagine...
inside the prison walls
Over 2.4 million people are imprisoned in this country, over half of them Black and Latino—cast off, degraded and demeaned, systematically stripped of their rights and their humanity. In the midst of this, a growing number of prisoners have taken up BAsics as a lifeline. Prisoners have been passing BAsics and other works by BA hand to hand, holding discussion groups, writing to Revolution newspaper and deeply engaging BA’s work, wrangling with the biggest questions of making revolution, and speaking out about the need to emancipate all humanity.
Imagine if much bigger funds were raised to not only fill all the requests from prisoners that come in for BAsics and other works, but to spread the word throughout the prison population and society. If the voices from those inside and the impact of BA’s work on them were reverberating throughout society.
“Upon receiving BAsics and becoming totally engrossed in the talks and writing of Bob Avakian, my cellmate, a 21-year-old first termer, inquired about the book... I allowed him to read a chapter for later discussions... now we conduct discussion seminars on the yard for all who are interested. The number of prisoners attending grows steadily and I have even been called into the Captain’s office and asked to control the size of the crowds. I now have a waiting list of prisoners waiting to read BAsics.”
—from a California prisoner
William Parker playing his
Blueprint for a Cultural Revolution, original and
improvised music accompanying readings from BAsics,
as a benefit for
the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund, September 2011.
“I want to urge everybody out there to get their hands on this book [BAsics] and to help get it into the hands of others, not just prisoners, but into the hands of youth who are in danger of becoming prisoners themselves... Help them unlock their potential and give them a sense of purpose that doesn’t involve killing each other. Give them an alternative to the criminal lifestyle that doesn’t involve conforming to this horrid system. That is what they need, that is what they ache for. They want to rebel, they just have to be introduced to the correct way to do so. Put them on the path to becoming communists...”
—from a California prisoner
Contribute to the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund:
Mail checks or money orders made out to PRLF:
Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund
1321 N. Milwaukee Ave. #407
Chicago, IL 60622
Or online at prlf.org
Bob Avakian
BAsics 6:11
Why am I—why is my body of work, and method and approach—important? Because this is bringing forward an advanced understanding, a heightened understanding, of what revolution and communism are all about and how to move toward the objective of revolution and communism, as well as a method for engaging and struggling through the contradictions that are inevitably going to be encountered in that process....
If we are in fact being guided by the scientific understanding that human society needs to, and can, advance to communism, that the struggle to achieve this objective must be the conscious act of masses of people, on the one hand, while at the same time this must have, and has no prospect of being realized without, leadership—leadership that, in relation to this goal, embodies the most advanced understanding and methodology—and that what is concentrated in this person, yes, but most fundamentally in the body of work and method and approach of Bob Avakian represents that leadership; then what flows naturally from that is the recognition that this is something the masses of people must be made aware of and acquainted with, and must take up as their own, with the understanding of how crucial it is, in terms of their own fundamental interests and ultimately the highest interests of humanity as a whole. As a document of our Party on the question of revolutionary leadership emphasizes:
"the fact that certain individual revolutionaries emerge as a concentration of this process, and themselves become a concentrated expression of the best qualities of revolutionary leadership—including a selfless dedication to the revolutionary cause and deep love of the masses, as well as a strong grasp of the scientific methodology needed to unleash the masses and chart the path of revolution in line with their objective interests—then the existence of such an individual leader or leaders is not something to lament but something to welcome and celebrate! It is part of the people’s strength."