Think you know the truth on socialism and communism? Think that there's no alternative to the present setup?

Revolution: Fall 2007

Think you know the truth on socialism and communism?
Think that there’s no alternative to the present setup?

Think again…and take the pop quiz from the Set the Record Straight project (thisiscommunism.org):

Question 1:

During the Mao years of 1949–1976, life expectancy [in China]:

A) got worse, declining from 58 years to 52 years.
B) improved greatly, more than doubling from 32 to 65 years.
C) stayed the same at 58 years.
D) There is no data.

Get the answer and more questions and answer at:
thisiscommunism.org/pdf/quiz.pdf

From the Mission Statement of Set the Record Straight:
“Set the Record Straight is an educational project that takes on the distortions and misrepresentations about the ‘first wave of socialist revolutions’ in the Soviet Union (1917–56) and in China (1949–76). What were these revolutions actually setting out to do? What were the extraordinary achievements of these revolutions in the face of great obstacles? What were their real mistakes and shortcomings? And what in fact is communism?”

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"What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these ‘outmodeds,’ you end up strengthening both."

Bob Avakian,
Chairman of the RCP,USA
From the talk, “Why We’re in the Situation We’re in Today… And What to Do About It: A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution”

"In a world marked by profound class divisions and social inequality, to talk about “democracy”— without talking about the class nature of that democracy and which class it serves—is meaningless, and worse. So long as society is divided into classes, there can be no “democracy for all”: one class or another will rule, and it will uphold and promote that kind of democracy which serves its interests and goals. The question is: which class will rule and whether its rule, and its system of democracy, will serve the continuation, or the eventual abolition, of class divisions and the corresponding relations of exploitation, oppression and inequality."

Bob Avakian

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