Archive for August, 2017
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Syllabus for Study and Discussion
CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEW SOCIALIST REPUBLIC IN NORTH AMERICA AND SUPPLEMENTAL RELATED MATERIALS (DOWNLOAD AS PDF) Part One—Two Sessions. Main Reading: Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, “Introductory Explanation: On the Nature, Purpose and Role of This Constitution” and “Preamble.” Supplemental Readings: Constitutions, Law, and Rights—in capitalist society and in the future socialist society, the first six selections (down through and including “Why there is no basic ‘right to eat’ under capitalism”), and the last selection “Some Further Thinking on: The Socialist State as a New Kind of State.” Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy, the sections “Slavery, White Supremacy, and […]
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Carl Dix at UCLA – September 7
Trump’s Violent Reassertion of White Supremacy, the Threat of Genocide, and What Must Be Done, NOW! A Talk by Carl Dix Thursday | September 7 | 7pm Perloff Auditorium | 1102 Perloff Hall 365 Portola Plaza, UCLA THE TRUMP/PENCE regime is consolidating a fascist program, unleashing Nazi stormtroopers, that will mean unimaginable horrors for humanity and, as part that, will bring down a reign of terror, on top of centuries of savage oppression of Black people. Carl Dix, drawing on the new synthesis of communism developed by Bob Avakian, will speak to how this regime was spawned by the system […]
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A Challenge: Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution–
A Challenge: Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution—Breaking With Wrong Ideas and Illusions In response to a challenge posed on the pages of revcom.us, a number of people wrote responses to an excerpt from the interview with Ardea Skybreak, “SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism and the Leadership of Bob Avakian.” The excerpt is entitled, “Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution–Breaking With Wrong Ideas and Illusions.” These responses show the difference it can make throughout society as Avakian’s work is increasingly known and engaged everywhere, as people […]
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Breaking with “Self” in a Culture of “Me”
Breaking with “Self” in a Culture of “Me, Me, Me” Individualism What really stood out to me in the excerpt was this notion of “self” in a culture of “me me me” individualism that is a result of capitalism and imperialism, especially in the U.S. & this whole idea of putting “America first” making people think we need to be putting ourselves first and basically saying “fuck you” to everyone else in the world. Or that our careers or “making it” in the system is the only real way we can make a change in it, which is absolute bullshit! […]
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