This is The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on September 1, 2022. This is our 117th Episode. My name is Andy Zee, I am the host of the show coming to you from Los Angeles, California.
Welcome new and returning viewers to this, the most revolutionary and radical show anywhere. This is a show about and for a real revolution. A show not about turning things upside down and replacing those on top with those now on the bottom. This is a show about the emancipation of all humanity throughout the whole world.
What that means, and what we bring on The RNL Show is spoken to in the Preamble of what will be the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America that will govern the new society brought into being as a result of the revolution. This pathbreaking Constitution written by the great revolutionary leader Bob Avakian says, quote:
In contrast to the way in which the capitalist-imperialist state serves and enforces the interests of a small ruling group of exploiters, the New Socialist Republic in North America, with the continuing leadership of the Revolutionary Communist Party, bases itself on, and proceeds from, the fundamental interests of those most bitterly exploited and oppressed under the old system, and the masses of people broadly, and provides the means for them to play an increasingly widening role in the exercise of political power and the functioning of society in accordance with those interests–in order to carry forward the struggle to transform society, with the goal of uprooting and finally eliminating all oppressive and exploitative relations among human beings and the destructive antagonistic conflicts to which these relations give rise.
That’s a big deal. And, for sure it’s a big and arduous mission. At the same time, it is a goal to live and fight for. All the more because in the moment we are living in, this is a goal that is possible. In each episode we bring to life a dimension of why and how this goal and this revolution, and nothing else and nothing less, is necessary to free all of humanity...
This show, along with our website revcom.us, is where, with great heart, soul, and science, the horrific suffering brought on by the crimes of this system is viscerally brought alive in ways that make you want to scream and cry, but then in how we scientifically dig into the roots that give rise to all these horrors that torment people today, these exposures point to the way out of this unnecessary madness. We bring the way that all kinds of people can join together in the great fight for a real revolution. A revolution for the goal of liberation of people all over the world from the capitalist-imperialist system that keeps humanity in modern-day bondage and is destroying the very environment we need to survive.
The RNL Show brings not only the revolution we need, what it is, and how we can get organized now for that revolution and overarching emancipating goal I have been speaking of which must guide everything we do today to prepare for that revolution so that it really can bring about a world that people would really want to live in—a new society where we could go to work together for the full and total emancipation of humanity.
All of this is based on the work and the leadership of Bob Avakian (BA)—concentrated in the scientific method and approach he has further developed and deepened based on the foundation of Marxism.
I cited the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, which BA authored. This is a blueprint for a radically new society which is imbued with a morality and approach, in which the means by which we struggle to overcome all forms of oppression from the old society must be consistent with and embody the goal of emancipating all of humanity. Not the ends justify the means. No.
The new communism must be a revolution, a new society, and a culture not of revenge but for the emancipation of all.
All of this is not something far off in the future. Bob Avakian has also put forward a roadmap of ideological and political orientation for getting organized for this revolution that must urgently accelerate now because this country and its rulers are so divided that these very sharp divisions are maturing in such a way that the conditions within which a revolution could be possible are emerging.
For that to happen this show, this leadership needs to be spread and known everywhere.
Students from middle school to high school and college—young people everywhere as well as continuing ed students among adults and seniors(!):
* Watch this show
* Discuss it with teachers and other students
* Organize RNL watch parties—make this semester really fucking count for the future with The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show