Could We Really Win? Prospects for Revolution

by Bob Avakian

Written in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War (1991). Revolutionaries, especially Maoist revolutionaries, are famous for the view that "the power of the people is greater than the Man's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898511100
• ISBN13: 9780898511109
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: RCP Publications
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Rugby rules

If you're puzzled by the political tactics of the radical left, which now constitute a significant minority in the Democratic Party, you need to read this book and its forebear, "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky. These constitute a cookbook for a social revolution in the United States. Historically, in our politics, both major parties have always played the same game essentially. These books suggest a departure, a bit like playing soccer but with one side using rugby rules. It's a rough and tumble, in your face, locally-based operation model for reformation first--chaos producing disillusionment about the present form of government which makes the middle class ready to opt for drastic change, and then revolution to capture the reins of government for "the people" who are defined as the have-nots in society. The philosophy of Mao tse Tung is the conceptual basis of the method, a revolution "from the bottom up" rather than the top down, as was the American Revolution. Of course, the intellectual elites will guide the revolution, as did Lenin and his cadres. Essential reading.