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Our store in Berkeley needs to become a place where people can meet the revolution: scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary, alive with a defiant spirit that refuses to accept that the horrors of today’s world have to be. It is THE place at this moment where people can connect with the campaign, “The Revolution We Need, The Leadership We Have” and the movement to change the world. At the heart of Revolution Books is the cutting-edge work of Bob Avakian, whose new synthesis of communism envisions a radically new society that is overcoming all of the oppression of the current world, while giving great scope to intellectual work, ferment, and dissent as integral to the complete emancipation of humanity.
Based on this kind of revolution, the bookstore needs voices and literature on the many spheres of life - science, art, poetry, novels, philosophy, politics – and author readings, book debuts, film “talk backs” with directors and more, that inspire and unleash awe and wonder, that contribute in a variety of ways to “freeing the spirit from its cell” – of revolution in the world, including the world of ideas – a place where epistemology meets morality – of knowing and changing the world. The bookstore needs to get way out in the world and play an essential and vital role in shifting the political and ideological terms that predominate in society, including helping to break through the lowered sights and dearth of engagement with revolutionary communist analysis and solution.
Let’s talk frankly – the bookstore as it is today is NOT yet that kind of place. But it needs to be and CAN be – with a radical transformation of the revolutionary content, edge and feel of the bookstore. This revitalization and revolutionizing of the bookstore provides a big opportunity to bring something fresh into being that can act as a real magnet for all who yearn for a far better future for humanity.
We urgently need your input on this transformation and on ongoing fundraising! We need to raise $60,000 over the next six months from many people to renovate and transform the bookstore.
To accomplish this we need your ideas, energy, creativity, expertise and enthusiasm – we need graphic and video artists, lawyers, accountants, architects, 2.0 web designers and people with basic skills, carpenters, professors, students, basic masses, poets – fighters and dreamers all – to take up this tremendous task.
The future of this revolutionary bookstore depends on YOU!
