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Archive for August, 2020

 

  • MORALITY WITHOUT RELIGION,
    EMANCIPATION THAT IS REAL

    by Bob Avakian June 1, 2020 I heard that when people took out my article Emancipation From Mental Slavery And All Oppression to people on the west side of Chicago, someone raised: “Where does our morality come from if we aren’t religious?” This is another way of saying: Can we be good without god? As I have said before, the answer to that is: We have to be good without god, because there is no god! But let’s get into it a little deeper. First of all, the fact is that the morality in the Bible is not a good […]

     

  • PATRIARCHY AND MALE SUPREMACY,
    OR REVOLUTION AND ENDING ALL OPPRESSION?

    by Bob Avakian As I have emphasized (and it is important to keep emphasizing): There is a direct line from the Confederacy to the fascists of today, and a direct connection between their white supremacy, their open disgust and hatred for LGBT people as well as women, their willful rejection of science and the scientific method, their raw “America First” jingoism and trumpeting of “the superiority of Western civilization” and their bellicose wielding of military power, including their expressed willingness and blatant threats to use nuclear weapons, to destroy countries.1 Kristin Kobes Du Mez has extensively studied the phenomenon of […]

     
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  • PATRIARCHY AND PATRIOTISM—
    AGGRESSIVE MALE SUPREMACY AND AMERICAN SUPREMACY—
    THE DANGER AND THE IMMEDIATE CHALLENGE

    by Bob Avakian As I have emphasized before: Where you have religious fundamentalism, you are going to have not only the forceful assertion of patriarchy and misogyny (hatred of women) but also aggressive patriotism—and notice that these two words have the same root, referring to allegiance to (and subordination to the authority of) the father(land). And, as we have seen, you are going to have white supremacy and racism.1 Let’s look more deeply at this connection between patriarchal male supremacy and patriotism— as well as white supremacy—and in particular how this is expressed in extreme and virulent ways with the […]

     

  • ON THE IMMEDIATE CRITICAL SITUATION

    STATEMENT BY BOB AVAKIANAugust 1, 2020 ON THE IMMEDIATE CRITICAL SITUATION,THE URGENT NEED TO DRIVE OUT THE FASCIST TRUMP/PENCE REGIME, VOTING IN THIS ELECTION,AND THE FUNDAMENTAL NEED FOR REVOLUTION ContentsPoint 1Point 2Point 3Point 4Point 5 Point 6 1 The situation today holds truly unprecedented and momentous challenges, with profound implications not only for the people in this country but for all of humanity. Three years ago, I spoke to this reality—which has become even more pronounced, and even more dangerous, in the time since then: We are confronted by—we are now being ruled by—a fascist regime: relentlessly assaulting civil rights and […]

     
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