RCP's Crappy New Website

[Lenina Rosenweg]

http://revcom.us/index.html

http://revcom.us/index.html

Their previous site had wierd content but at least professional looking. this one looks like something a 5th grade school kid would make.

On the other hand its possible the RCP could be turning into a hip ironic spoof on it self, the way some people used to "join" the Flat Earth Society, strictly for the lulz.

Edit" I can't figure out how to do a screen shot, but its worth a look.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Wow, that is crappy. Crappy website to go along with the RCP's crappy ideology.

[Ostrinski]

Its almost as bad as the DPRK site :lol:

Comrades! Its an expression of revolutionary modesty.

[Prometeo liberado]

It's kind of like a new Ford Taurus. At first you're like "cool, new ride". But then you actually try and operate it and become embarrassed to be seen in it. Pretty sure. Thanks BA.

[citizen of industry]

Bob Avakian is creepy. His name is the first thing you see. I couldn't tell you the names of the party leadership of any party other than RCP.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Bet some of the admins on here wish the membership here took the BA word as gospel as much as the RCP membership does ;)

[GoddessCleoLover]

The RCP's website is just more proof of fact that the Bob Avakian personality cult has become the entire identity of the RCP.

[Prometeo liberado]

The RCP's website is just more proof of fact that the Bob Avakian personality cult has become the entire identity of the RCP.

The thing is they openly call for a CoP around my boy BA. So I say hats off to you RCP. At least your not NAMBLA!

[GoddessCleoLover]

In other words, they disdain to conceal their views?

[Prometeo liberado]

Truth in adverstising.

[The Douche]

I went to the Revolution Books store in Berkeley when I was staying in Oakland. My hosts were hesitant to take me, but I insisted, since I am a "closet-maoist". So me and one friend roll to the bookstore, we look around for a while, most of the books sucked. I wanted to get a copy of the Avakian quotes thing, but I couldn't find it. Anyways, as we're leaving the girl behind the counter is like "oh hey guys, do you know about tomorrow (may day)?" as she extends a flyer to me. So I take it and I'm like "yeah, word, thanks".

Once we get back in the car I was like "does that girl really think I don't know about may day? for real? like, I just walk into a bookstore called 'revolution' with a fucking red flag on it, but I don't know what the fuck may day is?".

Cool story, huh?

[Prometeo liberado]

Do you have anymore of these stories where you are shocked that the world is oblivious to your coolness? If so lets see them. I have a dentist appointment at 3pm and I need to know that there is something a little more miserable and unpleasant than the Dentist.

[The Douche]

Do you have anymore of these stories where you are shocked that the world is oblivious to your coolness? If so lets see them. I have a dentist appointment at 3pm and I need to know that there is something a little more miserable and unpleasant than the Dentist.

Pretty sure anybody who goes into revolution books knows about may day, especially when its tomorrow, not just people as cool as I am.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

1996 gave Bobby Vaks a swirlie and a new web site

[Prometeo liberado]

1996 gave Bobby Vaks a swirlie and a new web site

That's how you keep it real.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I went to the Revolution Books store in Berkeley when I was staying in Oakland. My hosts were hesitant to take me, but I insisted, since I am a "closet-maoist". So me and one friend roll to the bookstore, we look around for a while, most of the books sucked. I wanted to get a copy of the Avakian quotes thing, but I couldn't find it. Anyways, as we're leaving the girl behind the counter is like "oh hey guys, do you know about tomorrow (may day)?" as she extends a flyer to me. So I take it and I'm like "yeah, word, thanks".

Once we get back in the car I was like "does that girl really think I don't know about may day? for real? like, I just walk into a bookstore called 'revolution' with a fucking red flag on it, but I don't know what the fuck may day is?".

Cool story, huh?


Maybe she meant the RCP's action for May Day. On the other hand the RCP seems like an extremely insular group, utterly oblivious of anything outside themselves.I believe the quote book(indexed like the bible) is BAsics.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Man I thought folks were just making tendency-jabs at an easy target but then I clicked the link. And yes, objectively it is a horrible web-design. It's like a Geocities page or something.

[Red Commissar]

Well, at least they got a site that matches Chairman Bob.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Man I thought folks were just making tendency-jabs at an easy target but then I clicked the link. And yes, objectively it is a horrible web-design. It's like a Geocities page or something.
They're using iframes which is grounds for excommunication from the web


I checked the source expecting to find a meta tag specifying 'generator' as 'frontpage' (sadly, I didn't)

[Raúl Duke]

"Get into BA"

No thanks...

What kind of people join the RCP?

[Igor]

that nice avakian mug shot welcoming me to their site sums up RCP pretty fucking too well. holy shit that's creepy

also "get into BA" is an awesome slogan but only in ways they probably didn't think about too much

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

What did the old site look like? The current one looks like something from the fucking 90s, yeuch.

I suppose it's some small mercy that it isn't some fuckawful bloated Web 2.0 abortion.

[Raúl Duke]

maybe they had to change because they couldn't afford a decent web-designer any more and thus had one of their members with a rudimentary knowledge of web-design do it.

[Q]

What did the old site look like? The current one looks like something from the fucking 90s, yeuch.

I suppose it's some small mercy that it isn't some fuckawful bloated Web 2.0 abortion.

Use the Wayback Machine (http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://revcom.us).

[DasFapital]

shit, there are neo-nazis that have more stylized web pages than that!

[BOZG]

There's actually an interesting discussion on Leftist Trainspotters about the website as well as the RCP's attitude to technology / the internet.

[BOZG]

Takes me about 5 minutes to actually find normal content on that website. Have to keep clicking randomly. They have a very funny launch article here (http://revcom.us/a/282/a-radically-transformed-revcom-us-en.html).

It will be a unique, inviting, and challenging presence on the Internet. There’s just nothing else on the web like revcom.us—in content or style.

[Bronco]

lol I literally don't understand how anyone can think that site looks good or is any way an improvement

[Thirsty Crow]

Bob Avakian is creepy. His name is the first thing you see. I couldn't tell you the names of the party leadership of any party other than RCP.
Get into BA :laugh::laugh:

[Nihilist Scud Missile]

Revoloution books next to UC Berkeley. I went in there the other day and asked if I could use the bathroom, they told me it was for customers only. I told them Bob sent me and three people came out from the back and wisked me away to a hidden chamber and fed me grapes, wine and handed me some strange new LSD type drug. The code word for that place is "shoot the moon". Tell them Bob sent ya. There's an entire factory of Oompa Loompas underneath that store waiting to fufill your every desire. Communism.9. The other level. A new dimention.

[Questionable]

Why the fuck did they pick someone like Bob Avakian to be the center of their cult of personality? That dude is not photogenic in the slightest. At least Lenin and Stalin had cool facial hair.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Why the fuck did they pick someone like Bob Avakian to be the center of their cult of personality? That dude is not photogenic in the slightest. At least Lenin and Stalin had cool facial hair.
"JOHNNY DEPP - The Vision, the Works, the Leadership for a New Stage of Communist Revolution - GET INTO JD!"


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/celebdatabase/johnnydepp/johnny_depp1_300_400.jpg

[Prometeo liberado]

"JOHNNY DEPP - The Vision, the Works, the Leadership for a New Stage of Communist Revolution - GET INTO JD!"


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/celebdatabase/johnnydepp/johnny_depp1_300_400.jpg

How do argue with this when PC LOAD LETTER puts it to you like this? You can't, shouldn't even try!

[Jimmie Higgins]

"JOHNNY DEPP - The Vision, the Works, the Leadership for a New Stage of Communist Revolution - GET INTO JD!"


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2006/celebdatabase/johnnydepp/johnny_depp1_300_400.jpg

Holy crap! Does he have a new synthesis? If so, I'm totally in. Depp really has internalized the lessons of the revolutionary struggle and I think we should all listen to what he has to say.

Unlike the revisionism of the Christian Slaterists, Depp has a true plan for how we achieve revolution in the 21st century.

[Hit The North]

What kind of people join the RCP?

If the photo on the home page advertising the magazine is anything to go by, nice looking young women join the RCP. Where can I join this amazing party? :lol:


maybe they had to change because they couldn't afford a decent web-designer any more and thus had one of their members with a rudimentary knowledge of web-design do it.

Maybe Avakian is doing it himself, he's such a control freak.

[Nihilist Scud Missile]

"JOHNNY DEPP - The Vision, the Works, the Leadership for a New Stage of Communist Revolution - GET INTO JD!"




Kinda looks like Trotsky.

[Q]

Kinda looks like Trotsky.

http://1.cdn.tapcdn.com/images/thumbs/taps/2012/08/9gag-brace-yourselves-2a32a50b-sz288x200.jpg

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Holy shit, clicked on that link to listen to the interview with Cornel West that's advertised on that page. Cornel West is like "This man is the REAL THING!" He is legendary, gave a scientific analysis, etc. Damn West, that was fucking hilarious!

[Let's Get Free]

Who the hell cares about the moribund RCP and their shitty chairman who's pretty much become a parody of himself?

[Ostrinski]

Why the fuck did they pick someone like Bob Avakian to be the center of their cult of personality? That dude is not photogenic in the slightest. At least Lenin and Stalin had cool facial hair.Always wondered this myself. He looks like a guy who just likes to lay on his couch in his tighty whities eating cheetos and watching television.

[The Douche]

While we're talking about Bob, I never understood the slogan "the revolution we need, the leadership we have", it seems to imply that we're settling for Bob. He's not the leadership we need, just the leadership we have? Well then excuse me if I wait for somebody better.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I went to the Revolution Books store in Berkeley when I was staying in Oakland. My hosts were hesitant to take me, but I insisted, since I am a "closet-maoist". So me and one friend roll to the bookstore, we look around for a while, most of the books sucked. I wanted to get a copy of the Avakian quotes thing, but I couldn't find it. Anyways, as we're leaving the girl behind the counter is like "oh hey guys, do you know about tomorrow (may day)?" as she extends a flyer to me. So I take it and I'm like "yeah, word, thanks".

Once we get back in the car I was like "does that girl really think I don't know about may day? for real? like, I just walk into a bookstore called 'revolution' with a fucking red flag on it, but I don't know what the fuck may day is?".

Cool story, huh?
Check this out. On May Day in Oakland I'm walking around OGP and a RCP member approaches me and asks "Do you have an interest in communism." I'm here on May Day clearly wearing a shirt with a giant hammer and sickle holding a little red flag that your group is handing out, no I have no interest in communism :rolleyes:.

[Drosophila]

Why the fuck did they pick someone like Bob Avakian to be the center of their cult of personality? That dude is not photogenic in the slightest. At least Lenin and Stalin had cool facial hair.

The funniest part is that his answer to when people ask why he has such a huge cult is that he's serving as the "friendly face" of communism.

[Grenzer]

Bob Avakian is Slavoj Zizek's alter ego.

http://revintcan.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/avakian-chair-wall-comm2.jpg

http://blog.nskstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zizek-a-film-from-slovenia.jpg

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Bob Avakian is Slavoj Zizek's alter ego.

http://revintcan.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/avakian-chair-wall-comm2.jpg

http://blog.nskstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zizek-a-film-from-slovenia.jpg

Holy shit! It was so obvious, how come nobody noticed it before?!

[Questionable]

While we're talking about Bob, I never understood the slogan "the revolution we need, the leadership we have", it seems to imply that we're settling for Bob. He's not the leadership we need, just the leadership we have? Well then excuse me if I wait for somebody better.

He's the hero the revolution deserves, just not the one it needs right now...

[Jimmie Higgins]

The funniest part is that his answer to when people ask why he has such a huge cult is that he's serving as the "friendly face" of communism.Yeah as I understand it, they want to make Avakian a sort of meme, they want him to be like a Che or OBEY or something. They put up all these stickers of his face all over my neighborhood but there isn't anything that says his name or the name of the group. On their website they talked about "wanting his face to seep into popular consiousness". It's all very strange and upside down in my opinion. Aside from just being kind of strange and condesending (like worker's will follow any advertising pitch and can't really decide things based on the ideas) it's not like Che or Black Panther images became iconic and then lead to support for radical ideas and struggle, it's the other way around!



While we're talking about Bob, I never understood the slogan "the revolution we need, the leadership we have", it seems to imply that we're settling for Bob. He's not the leadership we need, just the leadership we have? Well then excuse me if I wait for somebody better.Their old slogan was, "Bob: because you're not getting any younger"

[Rugged Collectivist]

I went to the Revolution Books store in Berkeley when I was staying in Oakland. My hosts were hesitant to take me, but I insisted, since I am a "closet-maoist". So me and one friend roll to the bookstore, we look around for a while, most of the books sucked. I wanted to get a copy of the Avakian quotes thing, but I couldn't find it. Anyways, as we're leaving the girl behind the counter is like "oh hey guys, do you know about tomorrow (may day)?" as she extends a flyer to me. So I take it and I'm like "yeah, word, thanks".

Once we get back in the car I was like "does that girl really think I don't know about may day? for real? like, I just walk into a bookstore called 'revolution' with a fucking red flag on it, but I don't know what the fuck may day is?".

Cool story, huh?

I don't think that's too unusual. There aren't too many leftist bookstores so you could just be someone who was looking around out of curiosity. Like if I went into a bookstore for witches and druids, and the girl at the front handed me a flyer for the winter solstice festival or whatever.

[The Douche]

I don't think that's too unusual. There aren't too many leftist bookstores so you could just be someone who was looking around out of curiosity. Like if I went into a bookstore for witches and druids, and the girl at the front handed me a flyer for the winter solstice festival or whatever.

Except its Berkeley, where the city had a "bob avakian day". And I was dressed in standard bay area anarchist attire.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

http://revcom.us/static/images2012/HomePgBA-ButtonHi.jpg

^ :lol: what the fuck?


Bob Avakian is Slavoj Zizek's alter ego.

http://revintcan.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/avakian-chair-wall-comm2.jpg

http://blog.nskstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/zizek-a-film-from-slovenia.jpg

I think you've solved it Holmes, good show.

[xvzc]

Not surprised that they removed the international sections on Peru, Nepal and so forth...

[Unclebananahead]

How long before that picture is used as someone's avatar?

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Check this out. On May Day in Oakland I'm walking around OGP and a RCP member approaches me and asks "Do you have an interest in communism." I'm here on May Day clearly wearing a shirt with a giant hammer and sickle holding a little red flag that your group is handing out, no I have no interest in communism :rolleyes:.


Tankie.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

How long before that picture is used as someone's avatar?
Don't tempt me