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The Murder of Brian Thompson:

The Problem Is Not Individual CEOs, the Problem Is This Capitalist System

And the Solution Is Real Revolution, Not "Making Them Suffer Like We Suffered"

On December 4, Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, was murdered on the streets of New York City by an unknown shooter who is still at large. The response to this murder has been met online with overwhelming celebration—many people treating this as "revolutionary."

We don't know the shooter's motivation, but whatever the motivation, it's not what is needed to bring into being fundamental, positive change and the emancipating transformation of society that's needed. That 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.

At the scene of Thompson's murder, three bullet casings were found with the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" written on them.  This is a common phrase used to describe how insurance companies avoid paying claims, leaving sick people with crushing debt. 

In response to this murder, people have responded speaking a great deal of bitterness about the healthcare "industry." But this is not caused by individual CEOs—the problem is this system of capitalism-imperialism.

These two videos were posted by @therevcoms in the days after this murder:

The problem is not individual CEO’s. The problem is this SYSTEM of capitalism-imperialism
Bob Avakian in 2003: “The purpose and goal of revolution is not revenge....”

From We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System, on what will be possible in a new socialist system based on the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America:

Health Care to Serve the People

Health care will not be oriented (and distorted) to make profit for big medical and pharmaceutical corporations, with the result that great numbers of people cannot afford decent health care under the present system. Such corporations will no longer exist—they will be replaced by government-funded health care. The purpose of health care will be to serve the people and continually develop and apply the science of medicine to meet the medical and health needs of people in society as a whole, in a way that is affordable for the masses of people, with the goal of finally making free, high-quality health care available for all.

We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System

 

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We are at a turning point in history. The capitalist-imperialist system is a horror for billions of people here and around the world and threatening the very fabric of life on earth. Now the election of fascist Trump poses even more extreme dangers for humanity—and underscores the total illegitimacy of this system, and the urgent need for a radically different system.

The website Revcom.us follows the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the author of the new communism. Bob Avakian has scientifically analyzed that we are in a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible in the U.S. He’s charted a strategy for making that revolution, and laid out a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for “what comes next” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

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Our website applies the scientific approach BA has developed to analyze major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how they relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this, and what the goals of that revolution are.

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