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Sunday, April 14, at Revolution Books, NYC

Raymond Lotta Opens Up High-Stakes Debate...

The BIG Problem with Netflix 3 Body Problem: Anti-Communist Distortion and Fatalism in a World That Cries Out for the New Communist Revolution

Sunday, April 14 at REVOLUTION BOOKS, 3 pm
437 Malcolm X Blvd @132nd St, NYC

Raymond Lotta is cracking open great debate about the past and future of communist revolution, and the future of humanity. He's opening people's eyes to the new communism—a whole new framework for human emancipation—developed by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian. And challenging people, especially students, to step into the revolution to change everything. 

Raymond Lotta spoke at an emergency program at Revolution Books in New York City on December 14, 2023.

 

Raymond Lotta spoke at an emergency program at Revolution Books in New York City on December 14, 2023.   

A State of Emergency... A World That Cries out for Revolution

Look, we're facing a state of emergency. Genocide in Gaza... women stripped of the right to abortion... the climate crisis careening towards catastrophe... the growing danger of world war. Capitalism-imperialism is the cause of this—with the U.S. the #1 oppressor and plunderer in the world. 

BUT there IS a way out of this horror: a liberatory revolution guided by the new communism. And this revolution is not only more urgently needed but also more possible—with the rulers at each other’s throats and society being torn apart.

But when you hear that word “communism,” you immediately start thinking: “isn't communism long dead,” a “utopian project turned nightmare,” a system of “mass control,” “mass conformity,” and “senseless violence”? Well, this is the self-serving bullshit—based on distortions and lies—drilled into people's heads by THIS nightmare of a system. Coming from its “experts” and ideologues... through its media and highly promoted memoirs... warning you that you cannot get beyond capitalism... that if you try, it'll be a disaster. 

This anti-communist brainwash seeps into every pore of intellectual, political, and cultural life. Keeping you ideologically locked into this system, in ways you're not even aware of...

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EXHIBIT A: THE NETFLIX SERIES 3 BODY PROBLEM

On Sunday, April 14, Raymond will get into the Netflix science-fiction series 3 Body Problem—which has been attracting millions of viewers around the world. 3 Body Problem spreads vicious misrepresentations and lies about the Cultural Revolution led by Mao Zedong from 1966-76. It would have you believe that the Cultural Revolution was an orgy of persecution casting society into chaos and darkness—with the story line that the Cultural Revolution brought out the worst in human beings, to the point of requiring that humanity be saved from itself through "alien invasion."

Because of the work done by Bob Avakian—and how he has unsparingly interrogated the experience of revolution in the 20th century—we can scientifically understand the momentous, liberatory breakthroughs of the Cultural Revolution... but also the problems and shortcomings, some quite serious. 

  • What were the actual aims and methods of the Cultural Revolution?
  • How was science conducted during the Cultural Revolution? And the approach to the environment?
  • What about the intellectuals and cultural work? 
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Raymond Lotta will get into how the new communism enables us to go much further and do much better, in making a qualitatively more emancipating revolution in today's world. A core feature of the new communism is the importance in socialist society of intellectual and cultural and scientific ferment—and the protection and promotion of dissent, way beyond anything that has existed in this society... indeed on a scale unseen in human history. In the framework of a society moving to end all exploitation and oppression. 

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT THIS, even if you haven't watched 3 Body Problem? Because this is about the future of humanity and the planet… and the revolution to emancipate humanity and protect the planet. 

Be part of building for this important program. Learn more. Be there on April 14!

For more info: 212.691.3345            @revbooksnyc          revbooksnyc@yahoo.com

Raymond Lotta is an advocate for the new communism of Bob Avakian. Raymond is a political economist, and a spokesperson for Revolution Books in Harlem. He has written widely on the Russian and Chinese revolutions, imperialist globalization, and principles of socialist sustainable development. 

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From the genocide in Gaza, to the growing threat of world war between nuclear powers, to escalating environmental devastation… the capitalist-imperialist system ruling over us is a horror for billions around the world and is tearing up the fabric of life on earth. Now the all-out battle within the U.S. ruling class, between fascist Republicans and war criminal Democrats, is coming to a head—likely during, or before, the coming elections—ripping society apart unlike anything since the Civil War. 

Bob Avakian (BA), revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, has developed a strategy to prepare for and make revolution. He’s scientifically analyzed that this is a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible, and has laid out the sweeping vision, solid foundation and concrete blueprint for “what comes next,” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America. 

The website revcom.us follows and applies that leadership and is essential to all this. We post new materials from BA and curate his whole body of work. We apply the science he’s developed to analyze and expose every key event in society, every week. Revcom.us posts BA’s timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists), including his social media posts which break this down for people every week and sometimes more. We act as a guiding and connecting hub for the growing revcom movement nationwide: not just showing what’s being done, but going into what’s right and what’s wrong and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force.

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but goes up to a whole different level!

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