0:13-4:24: …Sanders’ nonrevolutionary nature, ctd.
4:25-9:00: Single-Issue Leftism vs. what the Revolutionary Communist Party rightly calls “The Five Stops” (see note [2] below).
9:01-15:00: Lawrence O’Donnell’s Ridiculous Dismissal of Marxism
15:01-finish: Reflections on Rachel Maddow’s welcome admission[1] that yes people did in fact defy not just Trump but also Indivisible by protesting in Washington DC itself on No Kings Day
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a Request that Rachel brings on her show one or some of the Refuse Fascism folks who organized that protest (see RF leader Sunsara Taylor’s eloquent speech at that rally here) in Washington DC: refusefascism.org
NOTES
+1. The Rachel Maddow segment to which I referred (“boy was I wrong when I said people wouldn’t protest in DC…Lots of people protested in Washington DC last Saturday”):
+2. The Five Stops —- from https://revcom.us/a/594/what-is-5-2-6-en.html
This revolution for the new communism is real. To make this come alive and be sharply present in people’s thinking we bring them 5 STOPS—five horrific forms of oppression that this system cannot eliminate, that cannot be reformed away. This provides the material basis for making revolution, including that people do care about one or all of these 5 STOPS.
These 5 STOPS present TWO CHOICES to the people: Either live with this and the oppression will go on and on, or, as Bob Avakian says in the speech, Why We Need an Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution. “make revolution”…
The 5 STOPS:
STOP: Genocidal Persecution, Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality and Murder of Black and Brown People!
STOP: The Patriarchal Degradation, Dehumanization, and Subjugation of All Women Everywhere, and All Oppression Based on Gender or Sexual Orientation!
STOP: Wars of Empire, Armies of Occupation, and Crimes Against Humanity!
STOP: The Demonization, Criminalization and Deportations of Immigrants and the Militarization of the Border!
STOP: Capitalism-Imperialism from
Destroying Our Planet!
The 2 Choices: “...we have two choices: either, live with all this—and condemn future generations to the same, or worse, if they have a future at all—or, make revolution!” (Avakian)
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