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“Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution

A speech by Rafael Kadaris, and Q&A
Tuesday, August 15, 7 pm
Revolution Books, NYC

In a time of rapid change—record-setting global warming, dangerous imperialist conflict between the U.S. and its rivals, intensifying oppression of Black people, immigrants, women and LGBTQ people, with MAGA fascists threatening civil war and aiming to lock in their rule in 2024—young people need to be looking at the big picture, seeking out root causes and actual solutions. Instead, “woke” identity politics is shutting down questioning, lowering people’s sights, and misdirecting their outrage in destructive ways. A focus on changing words rather than changing reality, and hiding from reality with “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings,” a cannibalistic cancel culture backed up by identity politics police dictating who has a “right” to speak and make art, all aimed at getting “inclusion” for a few within this oppressive system.

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The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian has deeply analyzed the harm of “wokeness” and cancel culture, where it came from, and how to win people away from it. Now, rooting themselves in this analysis, the revcoms are out to demolish the whole framework of “woke” identity politics, lift people’s sights to a whole different way to understand and radically change the world, and win growing numbers to real revolution in a moment when this revolution is more urgently needed and more possible than ever.

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Rafael Kadaris is a member of the National Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour based in Los Angeles, and a correspondent with The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show at youtube.com/therevcoms.

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