The person whom I heard was Carl Dix, and it was he who advocated voting for
Biden. On the podcast, it was also mentioned that he and Cornell West are
working together in an organization. I don't remember it being what is talked
about in this article. Also, I was surprised that Cornell West was allied with
this group. Roger, thanks so much for posting the article.
Miriam
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I have pasted below the Wikipedia article on the RCP. They used to be quite
active in West Virginia. I remember in the late seventies the local newspapers
broke what they considered the astounding story that the Miners Right To Strike
Committee was controlled by the RCP. I already knew that and most anyone in
this area who was involved in radical politics knew it. The newspaper had a
number of articles on the subject and in one a coal miner was being interviewed
saying that you can't make them mad. He had seen them punched out and they
would just calmly get up and walk away. I wondered if what he had seen was
actually the time I got punched out and I was mistaken for a member of the RCP.
Actually, the movement I was in was constantly being mistaken for the RCP. They
didn't exactly keep themselves very hidden like the Communist Labor Party did
and I also knew just how active the CLP was in our area too. This is why it was
so ludicrous for the local newspapers to think the were breaking such
astounding revelations. Radicals and rank and file miners already knew the RCP
very well even if they did get the various communists and other radical
confused at times. But here is the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party,_USA
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Founded 1975
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois
Ideology New synthesis
Communism
Maoism
Political position Far-left
International affiliation None (formerly the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement) Website www.revcom.us The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (also
known as RCP and The
Revcoms) is a communist party in the United States founded in 1975 and led by
its chairman Bob Avakian. The party organizes for a revolution in the United
States, to overthrow the system of capitalism and replace it with a new
socialist republic,[1] with the final aim of world communism.[2]
Since the 2000s, Avakian's new synthesis of communism is the RCP's ideological
framework,[3] which it considers a scientific advancement of
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. Prior to this, the party was a founding member of the
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. The RCP has drafted a Constitution for
the New Socialist Republic, to replace the U.S. after a revolution.[4]
The RCP is notable for its various coalition groups, such as the World Can't
Wait,[5] Stop Patriarchy,[6] October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality,[7]
Stop Mass Incarceration Network,[8] and Refuse Fascism.[9]
The RCP organizes U.S.-based supporters into what it calls Revolution
Clubs,[10] (formerly known as the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade) with
chapters in Berkeley, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Internationally, there are groups of supporters in Iran,[11] Mexico,[12]
Colombia,[13] Brazil,[14] France,[15] and Turkey.[16]
Contents
1 History
1.1 1960s–1970s
1.2 1980s
1.3 1990s–2000s
1.4 2010s
2 Leadership
3 Political ideology
3.1 LGBT issues
4 Activities
4.1 Prison outreach
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
7.1 Books
8 External links
History
1960s–1970s
In early 1968, Leibel Bergman, H. Bruce Franklin, Bob Avakian, Stephen Charles
Hamilton and a score or so others—consisting of both veterans of the Communist
Party USA, and Bay Area radicals based in Palo Alto, Berkeley, and San
Francisco, formed the Bay Area Revolutionary Union (BARU). Among the first
tasks of the BARU was to challenge the Maoist Progressive Labor Party (PLP)
over their positions on the Black Panther Party, the Chinese Cultural
Revolution and the direction of Maoism. The early RU joined with the
Revolutionary Youth Movement faction in the Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) in opposing PLP's role in SDS at their national convention in Chicago in
1969. The resulting split led to PL controlling the SDS name, while RYM itself
split into two different factions.[17]
In 1971, Franklin led a more militant faction of BARU out the organization to
join Venceremos, leaving Avakian in a leading position within BARU. The RU
continued to expand nationally uniting collectives,[18] across the country,
effectively becoming a national organization—with the long-term goal of forming
a new communist party.
The new nationwide structure induced BARU to change its name to simply the
Revolutionary Union (RU). Avakian was elected to the central committee of the
RU shortly thereafter. The RCP claims that of the various groups coming out of
SDS, it was the first to seriously attempt to develop itself at the theoretical
level, with the publication of Red Papers 1.[19] In 1974 RU started publication
of their newspaper Revolution (renamed Revolutionary Worker in 1979)
In 1973 the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) entered into
reforms following the end of the Vietnam War, these included adopting an
explicitly Anti-imperialist stance and the opening of its membership to
civilians. During this period the RU became a popular faction within the VVAW
eventually reaching its peak in 1975, when the RU controlled national office
voted to remove members, expel chapters and place the organization into
ideological uniformity,[20] following the integration RU reconstituted itself
as the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).[21]
After the death of Mao in 1976, the RCP lost about 40% of its membership in a
1978 split over alignment with the new Chinese leadership. Avakian led the
faction that rejected what they considered a counterrevolutionary coup against
Mao's allies, and the split left him as undisputed leader of the remainder of
the RCP.
In January 1979 Avakian and 78 other Party members and supporters were arrested
and charged with various crimes in connection to a militant protest against
Deng Xiaoping's visit to the White House. Seventeen demonstrators, including
Avakian, were charged with multiple felonies which would carry a combined
sentence of up to 241 years.[22] After the RCP and its supporters waged a mass
campaign for political, legal, and other support for the defendants, the
charges were dropped in 1982, by which time Party leadership had decided to go
into exile, with Avakian applying for political asylum in France, where he
remained for many years.
1980s
The RCP organized May Day 1980 rallies in 16 cities across the U.S., including
in Los Angeles, New York, Portland, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.[23] Weeks
before the May Day demonstrations, RCP member Damian Garcia and two others
climbed the Alamo, tearing down the American flag from its pole, and raising
the Red Flag in its place before being arrested. Shortly thereafter, on April
22, 1980, Garcia was stabbed to death[24] while organizing in a Los Angeles
housing project. At the time, police said that Garcia's murderer was
gang-affiliated, while RCP insisted that he had been assassinated by the state
in retaliation for his action at the Alamo. Avakian remarked in his memoir that
Garcia's murder was "very clearly tied in with police agents ... it was an
attack on our Party."[25]
In 1983 Avakian was one of the founders of the now-defunct Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement (RIM), an international grouping of Maoist parties.
The RIM published A World to Win news service from 1981 to 2006, but since its
dissolution the publication is now updated on the official website. In 2017, A
World to Win was restructured to "a more thorough-going tool for revolution
based on Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism."[26]
Flag-burning by RCP members led to the Texas v. Johnson case, which established
the burning of the American Flag as a Constitutionally protected right.
1990s–2000s
In 1990, RCP Spokesperson Carl Dix embarked on a speaking tour entitled the
"Fear Nothing, Be Down for the Whole Thing" Tour, which helped to publicize the
Party's explicit calls for revolution. Slogans raised in this era included
"Seize The Power: Prepare for Revolutionary War"[27].
In 1991, C-SPAN aired a presentation by RCP spokespersons, about U.S.
wars in the Middle East, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and what
the "new world order" means for black people in America.[28]
RCP regarded the 1992 Rodney King riots as legitimate political rebellion and
advocated for the defendants in the Reginald Denny beating case.[29] RCP
advocated for international Maoist movements such as the Shining Path guerrilla
movement in Peru.[30] In 1996,[31] the RCP launched the October 22nd Coalition
to Stop Police Brutality.[32]
RCP branches opened Revolution Books stores in major US cities and became a
frequent presence in protest movements.[33] There are currently two operational
locations, one in Berkeley[34] and one in Harlem[35].
2010s
In 2011, RCP spokesperson Carl Dix along with Cornel West co-initiated the
campaigns to Stop "Stop and Frisk" and "Stop Mass Incarceration".[36][37] Dix
and West appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the state of Black America in
the age of Obama.[38] RCP organized Rise Up October against racism and police
brutality; the attendance included Quentin Tarantino.[39]
In July 2016, mass protest and police arrests erupted over a flag-burning by
the RCP outside the Republican National Convention, before a crowd of
thousands.[40][41] The next week, the RCP staged another flag burning outside
the Democratic National Convention, after denouncing the United States.[42]
Later that year, in response to Donald Trump's tweet calling for the
criminalization of flag burning, RCP supporters burned another American flag
outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City.[43]
In October 2016, RCP supporters were banned from the University of Chicago for
"trespass" after encouraging students to get organized with the
revolutionaries, with one activist arrested by police;[44] the next day they
returned to defy the ban, while denouncing U.S. elections and America.[45]
In August 2016, the RCP led protesters in a two-day march on a barricaded
police station after the fatal officer shooting of a black man by Milwaukee
police;[46] the police chief blamed the RCP for inciting "violence towards
police."[47]
The RCP strongly supported Colin Kaepernick and NFL protests of the U.S.
national anthem.[48] In October 2017, party spokesperson Carl Dix confronted
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, in relation to NFL protests, over "his
troubling tendency to muzzle his players and align himself with an oppressive
president."[49]
RCP organizer Sunsara Taylor appeared on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight in
February 2017, where she debated the host and said that Trump is "more
dangerous than Hitler" because of his access to nuclear weapons.[50]
In July 2018, Refuse Fascism and RCP organized 100 handmaids to protest U.S.
Vice President Mike Pence in New York City, saying "[he] is a Christian fascist
theocrat for whom the handmaid's tale is a model."[51]
In August 2018, RCP supporters took part in protests organized against the
neo-Nazi Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C.[52]
In October 2018, the RCP organized a demonstration in Chicago's Daley Plaza on
the 23rd Annual "National Day of Protest to STOP Police Brutality," in response
to the police shooting of Laquan McDonald and other black youth.[53][54]
At a February 2019 speaking event at USC, in the Q&A, RCP supporters sparked
controversy after criticizing speaker Amanda Nguyen's work in the U.S.
government during the War on Terror.[55]
In March 2019, a Revolution Newspaper correspondent was detained by police on
the anniversary of the police shooting of Stephon Clark, after getting into an
argument with Al Sharpton, while urging attendees to organize for revolution
rather than political reforms.[56]
On International Women's Day 2019, the Revolution Club joined supporters of the
Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), to march through Westwood,
California, calling for universal women's rights.[57]
On Independence Day 2019, the RCP staged flag burnings at the U.S.–Mexico
border and at the White House, the latter being a demonstration against the
"Salute to America" military parade, which resulted in two RCP supporters being
attacked by the Proud Boys and arrested by Secret Service officers.[58][59]
In August 2020, Avakian released a controversial statement which was
misrepresented by various right-wing media publications as an "endorsement" of
Joe Biden for President of the United States.[60]
Leadership
Bob Avakian is a controversial figure, who the RCP acknowledges is both "loved
and hated." Avakian is viewed by supporters as a revolutionary leader whose
body of work has advanced communist theory and represents a "pathway to human
emancipation" from the capitalist system.[61][62] Avakian is also criticized by
detractors for an alleged "cult of personality" around him by the RCP,[63][64]
accusations which the party strongly denies as "lies and slander."[65]
Political ideology
The RCP originated as a Maoist political organization with roots in the New
Left of the 1970s.[66] In the 1990s, its political ideology was
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism.[67] Today, the framework for its political ideology is
Bob Avakian's 'New Synthesis' (or 'New Communism'), which it sees as an
advancement of revolutionary theory; this has been debated among Maoists
internationally.[68][69] The RCP is atheist and stresses the scientific
method.[70]
RCP leadership says "the system cannot be reformed, it must be overthrown,"[71]
and does not participate in charity or elections,[33] instead organizing for
total revolution,[72] to replace the capitalist system with a new socialist
system aiming for communism worldwide.[73] Its goal is not to "make America
socialist" but instead "a world without America and everything it stands
for."[74]
The RCP has identified what it calls "the 5 Stops,"[75] which it says are
social contradictions under capitalism that can only be ended by
revolution: white supremacy, patriarchy and anti-LGBT discrimination,
anti-immigrant persecution, imperialist war, and environmental degradation. The
RCP emphasizes women's liberation,[76] and says it can only be achieved under
communism.
The RCP is not currently engaged in armed struggle, instead preparing for such
a future time; accordingly, it has a strategy pamphlet for "How We Can Win" a
revolution in the U.S.,[77] as well as a proposed Constitution for the New
Socialist Republic,[78] outlining what would follow. A code-of-conduct called
the "6 Points of Attention for the Revolution" outlines the principles of party
members and supporters.[79]
The RCP has declared there are no existing socialist states today, saying there
have not been since China from 1949 to 1976 and the Soviet Union before 1956.
Its website polemicizes against political currents such as anarchism,
democratic socialism, intersectionality, liberalism, and Trotskyism, as well as
criticizing reductionist approaches to Marxism,[80] and errors within
Maoism,[81] insisting only the New Communism can carry out revolution and
eradicate oppression.
LGBT issues
The RCP platform demands full recognition of LGBT rights as a fundamental
component towards establishing socialism.[82] However, in the 1970s and 1980s,
the RCP was noted for its opposition to homosexuality as "petty
bourgeois"[83][84] and prohibited LGBT individuals from party
membership.[85][86] This outlook was consistent with then contemporary
Marxist–Leninist states such as Cuba,[87] and was consistent with numerous
groups of the New Communist movement and the broader Marxist Leninist movement
of the period.[88]
In 2001, the RCP officially reversed this position, writing:
"The revolutionary proletariat is staunchly opposed to the attacks on
homosexuality by reactionary forces such as religious fundamentalists, and to
all physical assaults on, discrimination against, and government repression of
homosexuals, which is so widespread and vicious in the U.S. today. In the new
society, discrimination against homosexuals will be outlawed and struggled
against in every sphere of society, including personal and family relations."
Activities
The RCP releases daily updates online and a periodic print edition of its
weekly newspaper, Revolution (formerly called Revolutionary Worker,
1979–2005) available in English and Spanish, and published continuously since
1979.
In December 2016, party members and others co-initiated Refuse Fascism, a
coalition group aiming to "drive out" the Trump administration through
sustained street protests.[89] InfoWars and other far-right conspiracy theory
websites claimed the RCP and Refuse Fascism were organizing a military
overthrow of the government on November 4, 2017.[90] Several nationwide
anti-Trump protest marches were organized for that day, numbering in the
thousands.[91][92]
Refuse Fascism protesters were arrested in September 2017, after blocking four
lanes of the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles during rush hour, to "sound the alarm
about fascism."[93][94]
RCP supporters Michael Slate and Sunsara Taylor have regularly aired shows on
radio networks KPFK[95] and WBAI,[96] respectively, where they discuss news and
politics with guests.
Prison outreach
The RCP runs the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF),[97] which
sends its newspaper and other political works from its publishing press to
hundreds of incarcerated people nationwide to spread a revolutionary
message.[98] The PRLF as its aim: "provides an educational opportunity for
prisoners to engage with world events and key political, cultural, and
philosophical questions from a unique communistic perspective, including
discussions of morality, religion, science, and the arts centered around a
positive socialist-light."[99]
The RCP has faced increasing censorship by prison officials who seek to deny
inmates requested access to revolutionary literature.[100]
See also
Maoism
Sunsara Taylor
Carl Dix
Refuse Fascism
Marxism
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Carl Sagan
“Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder
and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to
nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will
prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront
the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the
Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will
penetrate its deepest mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
On 8/28/2020 12:19 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Google tells us: The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (also known as
RCP and The Revcoms) is a communist party in the United States founded
in 1975 and led by its chairman
Bob Avakian.
I did not go to Wikipedia, but there's more for those who care.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/27/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 10:19 PM
To: 'Roger Loran Bailey' <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [blind-democracy] Unexpected
I heard this guy on either Flashpoints or Loud and Clear. He was introduced
as the head of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Unfortunately, I don't
remember his name. One more disability, short term memory deficit. However,
he did say that ordinarily, he would never recommend voting for a candidate
of either of the two major parties. He believes that this time, such a vote
is necessary in order to prevent a Fascist takeover.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 9:58 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [blind-democracy] Unexpected
I don't regularly read the press of the Revolutionary Communist Party, but I
think you must be thinking of some other party unless the RCP has made a
complete 180 from the position they have held since their founding. The RCP
has always urged everyone not to vote for anyone. They urge a boycott of
bourgeois elections in favor of direct street actions.
I am thinking that you may have heard someone from the Communist Party, USA.
The last time I recall them running their own candidate was when Gus Hall
ran for president in 1976. If they have run a candidate for anything since I
must have missed it. It seems to me that they have become a faction of the
Democrat party instead. They always urge a vote for the Democrat candidate
and, in fact, when they ran Gus Hall in 1972 they still praised party
members for voting for George McGovern. But if they no longer run candidates
of their own and always urge a vote for Democrats I find it hard to see how
the CPUSA is not a faction of the Democrat party.
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Carl Sagan
“Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of
wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who
pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human
beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather
than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and
structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes
and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
On 8/27/2020 3:33 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
On Flashpoints, I heard someone, I think he's the head of the
Revolutionary Communist Party, say that given the immanent threat of
Fascism that another term of Trump as President is causing, everyone
should vote for the Democrdatic nominee, Joe Biden, regardless of what
they think of him. Isn't that a surprise for someone in a Communist
party to suggest, given Roger's position on voting?
Miriam