The battle for China’s past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
By Mobo C. F. Gao

The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village
By Dongping Han

A two volume biography of Mao Tsetung
By Han Suyin
Volume 1 The Morning Deluge: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese revolution, 1893-1954
Volume 2 Wind in the Tower: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Revolution, 1949-75

You can read the chronology and the introduction to Some of Us: Chinese women growing up in the Mao era By Xueping Zhong, Zheng Wang, Bai Di and about 50% of the entire book Fanshen by William Hinton here below.

And an incredible ballet film here for you also:

But wait a minute…isn’t communism a totalitarian nightmare? Don’t all the textbooks and experts and memoirs agree? No, you’ve been fed distortions about communism…By the same people who told you that the war in Iraq was about weapons of mass destruction…And by liberal and even some progressive scholars who don’t want to see the world turned upside down.

This fall teams of revolutionaries will be hitting campuses around the country—challenging those who have been lied to about communism, those who have been told that the horror of this capitalist-imperialist system is “the best of all possible worlds.”

A centerpiece of these efforts to bring revolution to the campuses will be a major speech by Raymond Lotta. Lotta’s speech will be substantive and potentially transformative for all who hear it, and it must be made a VERY BIG DEAL. The buzz should spread about a revolutionary who is serious about overturning the verdict on communism and has the facts, the analysis, and the passionate commitment to humanity’s liberation to back it up. Those who are attracted to the idea of communism but who’ve been told “it can never work” should know this is the place to come and ask their toughest questions. Opposition from reactionaries should be turned around and made part of the growing controversy and sense that Lotta’s speech must be heard and engaged. All those who consider themselves progressive critics of the current order but who use their “radical” or even “Marxist” credentials to rule real revolution off the table should be compelled—by the overall atmosphere and expectations created campus-wide—to bring their best arguments and put them up against what Lotta will have to say.

Thurs. 10-8-09, 4pm-6pm, Lipman Room, 8th flr, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, Barrow Lane & Eshleman Road,
info: Revolution Books, 510-848-1196, revolutionbooks@sbcglobal.net, www.revolutionbooks.org

Read the editorial aboutThe Raymond Lotta Campus Tour

The material above is introductory. To get in-depth scholarly background on the subject go to the ‘SOCIALIST EXPERIENCE’ section of Ray Lotta’s website This is Communism; Set the Record Straight.

Also, on the subject of fighting against the greatest propaganda campaign on Earth to defend capitalism from being overthrown, I really like
chapter 1, “History and Responsibility”
Marxism and the Call of the Future
Conversations on Ethics, History and Politics
This link opens up the Amazon book excerpt tool which will let you read the first three pages of chapter 1.

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Today, we got one step closer to REVOLUTION IN THE USA. A new website was just launched called Revolution Talk. Go there to start finding out

WHY IT’S NECESSARY
WHY IT’S POSSIBLE
WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT

The homepage offers four excerpts from the video that are each about five minutes long. I really like the one titled; “Imagine … a new society” which I embedded above.

Once you get done wetting your appetite with the excerpts, you probably want to take in some of the full length version by clicking on full talk which takes you to the full length 11 hour version broken down into 4 parts with an index which you will need. Just to let you know that this is not purely rigid theory and that this revolution is talking about the real issues facing people and that this is a revolution where you can have a little fun too, check out the answer Bob Avakian gives to question number one in part four of the full length version at the beginning of the clip I embedded just below here…very funny revolutionarios:

Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About: a film of a talk by Bob Avakian. SESSION 4, Q&A from RevolutionTalk on Vimeo.

Soon, I will be posting about how I am getting this video around to my friends. I just got started this morning and done some work on youtube, blip, twitter, facebook and google reader.