Bend Every Effort to Make the RCP Publications Fund Drive a Success!

June 22, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

 

"I am asking you to check out revolution..."

This writer is sending this letter to friends. He made a generous donation and became a monthly sustainer.

Hi Friends,

I know all of you are concerned with justice, progress, and the environment in some way or another. I wanted to share with you my perceptions of things right now.

I see a world in crisis with sharpening contradictions. Here are the main contradictions I see now.

Endless war and conflict as U.S. imperialism seeks to extend/manage its control and influence through invasion (Afghanistan/Iraq), CIA terror, torture, drone strikes, and assassinations.

The deepening oppression of women here (rape culture and attack on women’s right to abortion) and around the world. (Rape is being institutionalized as a form of reactionary warfare.)

Police terror and murder in our oppressed communities combined with Mass Incarceration.

The fate of Mother Earth is in the balance as capitalism-imperialism pollutes, devours rain forests and resources, drills and drills for oil in a predatory drive for profit. No regard for the planet, future generations, or science exists in any meaningful way.

Millions of humanity are in refugee camps or forced to migrate because of war, poverty, and climate change. And these brothers and sisters are targeted as the problem as the capitalist countries build walls, fences, and work at other ways to keep them out.

And these millions will become millions upon millions in the future.

I’ll be honest. I had convinced myself that the “system” could be reformed. But this was an illusion. In some ways a self-induced illusion.

You know the “Walking Dead”? In the past few years even though I had remained active in some ways—anti-Iraq war and climate change demonstrations, I was living a life in “quiet desperation.”

What brought me back to life was working a year at Home Depot and reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow about the mass incarceration of our Black and Latino youth. I was stunned and angry that this had happened on “my watch.”

I saw a YouTube video of Cornel West and the Stop Mass Incarceration Network which he founded with Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). I began to get involved with this movement which led me back to my radical roots and the RCP.

I went to the RCP website revcom.us and found that the RCP line had evolved in positive ways. And was putting forward a “New Synthesis of Communism” which resonated with me on many levels. Especially the emphasis on “humanity coming first” and not sugar-coating the need for real revolution and the challenges it will take to realize it.

I invite you and urge others to visit the website and critically evaluate it yourselves.

I hate this system and the “take care of me and screw everybody else” culture it promotes and shoves down our throats. I hate its everyday crimes that it numbs us to accept. I hate the way it isolates us from each other and makes us wonder, “Am I crazy? Am I the only one who hates this shit? Is this it? This is the best humankind can do?”

I am asking you to check out revolution. I am asking some of you to check out revolution again.

I need you. We need you. Above all humanity needs you.

There is a fundraising drive going on. Please contribute to it. Get involved in some small way in bringing forward a new vision, a new way, a new world.

Is this guaranteed? Nope.

Do I agree with everything on the RCP website? Nope.

But do I think that in some ways this might be humanity’s best hope? Yup.

I am determined that I will live the rest of my life trying to bring forward fundamental revolutionary change in the most honest way I can. Do I still feel “desperation”? Almost every day. But it will no longer be quiet. And amidst that desperation there will be moments of revolutionary joy and love.

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The fund drive for RCP Publications will end on June 30. Meeting the pressing financial needs of RCP Publications and revcom.us is now more important than ever. This society is being shaken to its roots. People are being compelled to confront big questions about the nature of America and search out solutions—and this website is where people can get key works from Bob Avakian (BA) and access his films and audio talks, and day-to-day revcom.us makes all these works, and more, accessible to thousands.

Every month tens of thousands of people the world over come to revcom.us—and this is the site where hundreds of thousands need to come to get “a scientific analysis of major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how different events and developments relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie in relation to all this, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this and what the goals of that revolution are, how different viewpoints and programs relate, positively or negatively, to the revolution that is needed, and how people can move, and are moving, to build toward that revolution.”

Revcom.us/Revolution newspaper is the means for people to connect with each other and build the political network that is so urgently needed. RCP Publications—and especially revcom.us—is the means to connect the people who are working in every corner of society with each other, magnifying and amplifying the efforts of people in different corners of society to act together to fight the power and to join together in a powerful movement for revolution. As the statement we publish on the current issue page each week says:

Revcom.us/Revolution is the guide, the pivot, the crucial tool in drawing forward, orienting, training, and organizing thousands, and influencing millions—fighting the power, and transforming the people, for revolution—hastening and preparing for the time when we can go for the whole thing, with a real chance to win.

Over the past weeks, we have published numerous inspiring letters from people from different corners of society who have been moved to support RCP Publications with donations and committing to sustain RCP Publications and revcom.us or to increase their sustainer. But, we have only just begun to meet the pressing financial needs that RCP Publications and revcom.us face to rise to the great challenges before us. We are republishing one of these letters on this page. Read this letter, think about what it says, and step up. A real gap exists between the basis and potential for people from all over society to donate and sustain as reflected in the letters we have received and published, and the number of donors and sustainers who have contributed. Now in these last days of this drive, we are calling on all those who have stepped up to make the extra effort to make this drive a success.

Right now, reach out to and call on others you know or meet to:

  1. Make a substantial donation by clicking on the donate button at revcom.us, send a check or money order to RCP Publications, or donate through your local Revolution distributor.
  2. Commit to sustaining RCP Publications. Sustainers are critical to the ongoing efforts of this publisher and revcom.us to meet their overhead and to promote this site throughout society and the world.
  3. Share the letters from donors and sustainers we have published with others and write us with your experiences (we don’t need unnecessary detail, but we do need to learn from your experiences, insights, problems, questions, and suggestions).

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