What Is Socialism? What Would A Future Revolutionary Society Look Like?

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What is socialism? What would a future revolutionary society look like?

Join us and bring your questions.

This discussion will draw from the article by Bob Avakian, ANSWERING IGNORANT AND IDIOTIC IDEAS, Part 2:

“Only with revolutionary socialist state power can a truly emancipating society actually exist, be sustained, and advance toward the fundamental goal of abolishing and uprooting exploitation and oppression, everywhere, with the achievement of communism, throughout the world.

“It is a widely held “article of faith” these days, among forces that consider themselves “left” or “progressive,” that all dictatorships are, by their very nature, bad, and the (only) positive alternative to this is “democracy.” More particularly, anarchists vehemently insist that state power—the exercise of institutionalized power over society by any one part of society—is, by its very nature, dictatorial, and therefore oppressive, and the goal must be to eliminate (or “smash”) the state altogether.

“These arguments are false and reflect a fundamental ignorance (or deliberate ignore-ance) of crucial reality: They fail to understand scientifically (or refuse to recognize the scientifically-established truth regarding) the basic relations in society, the prospects for a truly emancipating society, and what is required in order to bring this about.” Read the whole article here.

Watch this video of Bob Avakian: What would a future revolutionary society look like? 

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Event related book:

Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) Authored by Bob Avakian, 

https://revcom.us/sites/default/files/socialistconstitution/SocialistConstitution-en.pdf

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