A Great Opportunity
Responding to the announcement of
Revolution and Religion: A Dialogue Between Cornel West and Bob Avakian
September 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
I think there's a confluence of minds here; even though they come from quite different directions. They are both very concerned about the human condition; not just about this country, or that country; but the human condition, on a global scale. Cornel West is a leading public intellectual who has a high degree of visibility, and to have him debate, he has been debating Carl Dix, and now he will be debating Bob Avakian who, as I said earlier, I think he's a person who has considered this problem, the problems of the human system, but thinking about where we need to go from here; what kind of system is needed, to get to a better world, and a strategy to get from here to there....
An important point right now is to raise people's consciousness; to get them to be participants, and to engage in the dialogue... And that raises consciousness; you have to address issues, you have to assess them. I don't think I have the answer to everything, and that's why you hone your arguments, and improve your understanding, through reading, and through discussion. And a discussion like this is very valuable. I'm looking forward to this; I think it will be very valuable, with high visibility, so it should increase the visibility of the issue, and the consciousness of the population as a whole. That's a great opportunity.
A retired professor in Los Angeles
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