This essential truth and sharply posed challenge is the title of Bob Avakian's social media message @BobAvakianOfficial, REVOLUTION #101. Over these next few days, this reality—and this whole message—needs to reach millions. 

And you are needed to make this happen!

The whole, incredibly concise piece is worth repeating:

In these messages, I have done a lot of analysis of what is actually represented by this election and the opposing candidates (Trump and Harris). At the same time, it can be boiled down to this:

We are being told to choose between a lunatic racist, woman-hating, all-around fascist (Donald Trump) and a genocidal war criminal (Kamala Harris).

When these are the “choices” offered by a system, it is time to recognize that this system is a thoroughly rotten, monstrously criminal, massively destructive, thoroughly outmoded system (long past the time when it can represent anything positive).

It is time to look seriously for solutions outside and beyond this system.

It is time for a revolution to overthrow and uproot this whole system and bring into being a fundamentally different and much better system.

It is time to join the National Campaign to spread these social media messages, and the word about this revolution, while you’re learning more about it—time to go to revcom.us, get into We Need And We Demand: A Whole New Way To Live, A Fundamentally Different System—time to become part of the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity actively and urgently working for this revolution.

[You can download a flyer and poster with this social media message for mass distribution over these next couple days.]

Bob Avakian (BA) is right when he says, "It is time to look seriously for solutions outside and beyond this system." And that's what the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere is key to making happen—and it will not happen without this voice being seriously engaged and debated throughout society. 

Why? The question is posed—and answered—on revcom.us: “Why is Bob Avakian so important? Besides the fact that he is the only leader in this country who is talking about a real revolution—and besides the fact that he is actually leading the process of actively working for that revolution—what Bob Avakian (BA) has done, with the development of the new communism, is of world historic importance. It is, in fact, a whole new framework for human emancipation. No one else has done what BA has done."¹

This is profoundly true, and an invitation and challenge to get more into the work that BA has done. And it's the basis to go out very broadly to people asking them to donate to this National Campaign. As one donor wrote, "I gave to get the word out about revolution because it is time to think outside the box as a people who will not give up on the climate and the peace movement and bring about change collectively by kicking out the broken system. It is on many minds that the system is broken and needs to be replaced. We can do this. Give to spread the word and start that conversation to change minds and hearts for Revolution!"

** We want to thank everyone who contributed and raised funds to meet our last $20,000 goal. In addition to funding a push to advertise with the Revolution #91-94 series, "A Profound Fight for the Soul of Black People: A Defeated People—Or, A Revolutionary People?", we've been in the midst of the meta advertising campaign driving people to the new website—BobAvakianOfficialEverywhere.org—with the concrete request for contributions. As is common at this stage, this has not yet resulted in funds, but has resulted in a high level of engagement. We've reached more than 150,000 accounts with almost 11,000 people clicking on the ad. A lot of those clicks went to Bob Avakian's social media pages on Instagram and Facebook, and a little over 2,000 went to the website to learn more. (This is an above average number of clicks.) Also, more than 500 have shared the ad on their pages, resulting in even more views and engagements.

In addition to more than 700 more following @BobAvakianOfficial on Instagram and Facebook combined, there have been a few hundred people commenting on various posts—some of these are from fascists, and anti-communists. Others are from mainstream Democrats defending the system. And a number are from people asking serious questions, asking about what will replace this system, arguments among people about identity politics, or about the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. Off of this, a few more serious people have said they will look more into the new communism that Avakian has developed, or go more deeply into his social media messages.

Running this campaign for almost two weeks has cost $3,000, and much more is needed to consolidate what's begun and spread it exponentially. 

** As part of this, we're aiming to raise $5,000 by the end of election night, November 5, and a total of $10,000 by Monday, November 11. It will be important in these heady days to reach out to all kinds of people who've never contributed before. We know that millions are agonizing about the future, even as they are not yet looking "seriously for solutions outside and beyond this system." Go HERE for interesting reports on the kinds of engagements that have begun from people doing fundraising among people who don't all agree with what BA is saying, but appreciate it, and think it needs to be heard and debated at such an existential moment. 

One professional gave $100 who had big differences with what BA is saying—about Biden and the need for revolution—but wants different voices to be heard. Another person contributed because they were agonized about Jeff Bezos’s refusal to have the Washington Post endorse Harris in opposition to Trump and was debating about how to protest this. A volunteer who is raising funds for the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere wrote them: "donate to a movement that’s dedicated to ending the rule of billionaires and their capitalist system over our whole damn world." The person texted back, “good idea!” and donated. 

** Go HERE for pictures and initial reports from the National Fundraising Weekend from THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity.

** Finally, get together with others—over zoom, in a coffee shop, city park or anywhere—to talk about these messages from BA, especially in these coming days which could very well have historic consequences. Just taking an hour to get into what he's saying will give people the essential grounding to understand what is happening, why and how to act on it. REVOLUTION: BUILDING UP THE BASIS TO GO FOR THE WHOLE THING WITH A REAL CHANCE TO WIN, opens with this: 

If you don’t understand why we need a revolution, and how that revolution could be possible, then you don’t know what you need to know.

“Fundamentally, people cannot imagine this because they are not approaching things with a scientific outlook and method.” (Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader, author and architect of a whole new framework for human emancipation: the new communism).

Digging into these social media messages collectively will train people in that scientific outlook and method. 

** We look forward to hearing from you: What are you learning in digging into Bob Avakian's social media messages? What are you learning in fighting to spread these throughout society? What are you learning in raising funds for these? What differences and questions do people raise? When people are stepping into this, why? 

Send us the hardest questions you're encountering and we can help answer them on this site (and know if you're hearing something, you're not the only one!). This is part of how we knit together a national movement fighting for the most important thing we have: the leadership humanity needs for a real revolution to get all the way free, in a time when that revolution is more possible.