Donald Trump, the Republican fascist candidate for president, may once again have been the target of an assassination, at his golf course in Florida on Sunday afternoon. Someone there was apprehended shortly after the Secret Service fired shots at someone they said was brandishing a rifle. A short time later, a gun was found in the bushes surrounding the golf course and, shortly after that, a man was arrested as a suspect.

At this point, we don’t know more than that. But there are two things that can be said now. To quote from a message Bob Avakian (BA) posted @BobAvakianOfficial after the attempted assassination of Trump in July, titled “Number Sixty-Four: The Increasing Craziness, The Intensifying Situation and the Possibility of Revolution”:

But whatever the actual motivation of the shooter, and whatever might be involved with this, it has nothing to do with any positive change, and certainly nothing to do with an emancipating transformation of society, which can only be brought about through a revolution, involving millions of people and aiming to sweep away this whole system and replace its relations and institutions of exploitation and oppression, and its putrid culture, with ones that are liberating and uplifting.

Writing at the time of this first incident, BA went on to say:

What is clear is that this attempted assassination of Trump is part of the increasing craziness and chaos going on, in the world overall and particularly within this country.

Now, less than two months after Bob Avakian said the above, we are again confronted with what might be a similar event. Moreover, even in the time since that message there have been further important and even unprecedented events (including the driving out of Joe Biden and the overnight selection of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic candidate). All this and more bear out the importance of BA’s point.

This situation will not settle down. And here too, Bob Avakian’s above-cited dispatch provides important insight:

All this is an expression of the fact the way this country has been ruled for generations, by a basically unified ruling class, can no longer hold. The outcome of all this is very likely to be a radical change, of one kind or another. The crucial question, as I have said before, is whether this will be a radical reactionary change, further intensifying the already terrible oppression and horrific atrocities built into and continually committed by this system of capitalism-imperialism—or will it be a radical revolutionary change, opening the way to abolishing the basis for all this atrocity?

What is said above is not just a “take” or an “opinion”—it is a profound assessment of the times, based on a deeply scientific study of the underlying dynamics that have given shape to and are driving forward this extraordinary situation.  

Further: what is said above cannot be evaded—and nobody should want to evade it. In fact, Bob Avakian also sets forth in these messages, and in his larger work, a way to not only act on but to shape these dynamics and to do so in a way that can set humanity on the road to its urgently needed emancipation.

All this underscores the importance of everyone who wants to see positive change taking up the duty of not just following Bob Avakian’s dispatches and sharing them with others but also struggling sharply with those others to deeply engage with BA’s messages to bring forward the basis and get in position to make a real revolution in this time.

Time is short… and events are accelerating.