Episode 388 of RevolutionZ concludes the The Wind Cries Freedom Excerpts as Revolutionary Participatory Society (RPS)  wins state power and immediately insists that the real work is just beginning. This week Senator and then President Malcolm Mays, Governor then and then Vice President Celia Crowley, Lydia Lawrence, Bertrand Jagger, and Bill Hampton explain how Revolutionary Participatory Society approached elections, why they once avoided national races, and what changed when a presidential run became both possible and necessary.

A personal discussion reveals the hazards that swallow so many campaigns: the obsession with vote totals, the addictive pull of praise, the way inner circles filter bad news, and how fundraising quietly rewires what candidates say and what they start to believe. Then the frame flips to treat electoral politics as a tool for grassroots organizing: using campaigns to expand membership, build local chapters, strengthen assemblies, and keep pressure rooted in communities, workplaces, and schools rather than inside backrooms.

The discussion moves from a general strike to a dinner table debate about whether to run. It recounts a pivotal, tumultuous debate night and relives a massive Texas rally that signaled an oncoming landslide. It ends with the tone of “transition” after victory, including a new international posture and a blunt accounting of past harms alongside commitments to solidarity, self management, and peace.

Before and after this episodes's excerpt from the thirtieth and last chapter of The Wind Cries Freedom, the author answers why such an oral history was written, what it hopes to accomplish, fears for what might instead occur, and a request for support to attain the former rather than endure the latter.

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