Filling the Greatest Need Facing Humanity: The World Emancipating Urgency of BA Everywhere!
July 14, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
From a reader:
It's a world in turmoil with mass upsurges in Turkey and Brazil, continued turmoil in Egypt, the Snowden revelations, the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin, the California prisoners' hunger strike and continued defiance by the prisoners in Guantánamo, and much more. As people rise up and think about events here and around the world, people yearn, ache, search, reach for something different but are constrained by the limitations in their own thinking as to whether a radically different and far better world is possible. They often begin with and end up in calls for more "democracy," all within the confines of this order, this very same system.
Calls for more "democracy"* in these protests worldwide? A fat lot of good this democracy has done for the masses of people in this country, in its projects and its prisons, the most gloriously democratic of democracies! Or in India—the largest of mass democracies, with more poverty than sub-Saharan Africa! Or in South Africa—the newest of mass democracies, with unspeakable degradation of its youth and women!
In Egypt, people took to the streets in huge inspiring protests, but what are they now faced with? The very same U.S.-backed Egyptian army which had been the brutal enforcer of oppression and repression for decades under Mubarak—who they jettisoned in response to the Arab Spring while continuing to be the real power—has now kicked out Morsi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. These are the choices absent a fundamentally different system and state power: Morsi's Islamic fundamentalism or the more open rule of the military and/or an elected leader who provides them with more political cover. In either case, the result will be one form or another of oppressive rule, subordinated to the imperialist international order. Neither Jihad nor McWorld, we need to bring forward another way!
What people need most of all, the greatest need at this hour, is the real, scientific solution to these horrors, the way out. This is the re-envisioned communism of Bob Avakian, with its vision and viability of a radically different world brought about by getting rid of this system of capitalism-imperialism and bringing about a whole new and far better system and world through communist revolution. Without this framework of BA's new synthesis of communism as a pole that growing numbers are engaging, being won to, and pivoting off of, the horizons of what people see as necessary, desirable, and possible are confined and skewed within this system, leaving the world as it is—fundamentally unchanged—and the system of capitalism-imperialism continues humming in the background, crushing lives and destroying spirits.
This is the great need we are seeking to fill with BA Everywhere, with, and as the leading edge of, a whole revolutionary ensemble. Imagine the difference it will make—not only here but around the world! Achieving the objectives of BA Everywhere will reverberate globally. Let's fight like hell to fulfill these goals—where this vision of a radically different world—and yes, all the questions it further provokes and opens up—become a reference point, a matter of discussion and debate, raising sights and radically changing the world.
* Think how much further ahead the righteously outraged and heroically self-sacrificing masses of people rising up around the world would be if they understood the tremendous truth concentrated in BAsics 1:3 as well as BAsics 1:22, taken from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian!
BAsics 1:3:
"The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism."
BAsics 1:22:
"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."
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