What was the powerful positive experience of the 1960's? Bob Avakian's Real Revolution

In a series of urgent social media messages, "Real Revolution, In This Time: What the Powers-That-Be Don’t Want You to Know", Bob Avakian has addressed crucial burning questions. Revolution Books is starting a weekly series of discussions centering on these messages, starting with Revolution #33:

“The powerful positive experience of the 1960s movement—the crucial importance of uniting broadly against injustice and atrocity, with open-minded engagement of different ideas and programs...”

College campuses have been the site of powerful resistance to the U.S.-backed Israeli genocidal slaughter of Palestinian people. College students going up against their own government on a matter of strategic importance has challenged many – who are starting to look at this system, and their responsibility to the people of the world in new ways.

College students going up against their own government on a matter of strategic importance has challenged many – who are starting to look at this system, and their responsibility to the people of the world in new ways.

Revolution #33 draws crucial lessons from the 1960s to speak to this moment:

What characterized the truly massive movement of the 1960s, with all its different tendencies, was a determination to actually put an end to the outrages that people were rising up against, along with a broad sense of “being in this together in the fight for a better world,” and the generosity of spirit, as well as largeness of mind, that went along with that. One of the significant expressions of this was meaningful discussion and debate about different ideas and programs, within the broad mass movement, where the actual content and substance of opposing positions was gotten into, instead of petty bickering relying on “cheap shots” and distortion of the views of others—or the refusal to seriously engage views that are different from and might challenge one’s own viewpoint.

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