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Archive for August, 2021

 

  • VACCINES ARE A DECISIVE MEANS FOR DEALING WITH COVID—THEY ARE NOT A “CONSPIRACY” OR A “PLOT” BY THE GOVERNMENT AND BIG CORPORATIONS

    The Importance of a Scientific Understanding and Approach by Bob Avakian August 23, 2021 As I have noted recently, there is a serious problem in this country that many people are refusing to get the vaccines against COVID, when in fact these vaccines have been clearly demonstrated to be safe and effective against serious illness and death from COVID. If the great majority of people in this country were vaccinated, this would mark a huge step toward getting the COVID pandemic under control—even as it is also necessary for people all around the world to be vaccinated as well, with […]

     

  • Also From Bob Avakian: Important Points of Theory and Method Regarding Freedom and Restrictions on Freedom

    August 16, 2021 From Bob Avakian: On COVID, The Importance Of Getting People Vaccinated, And The Very Real Problem Regarding Rampant Individualism The following are helpful in getting a deeper sense of the basic content, and the method and principles, involved in the article On COVID, The Importance Of Getting People Vaccinated, And The Very Real Problem Regarding Rampant Individualism. All are available at revcom.us. First, the following: On the basis of a constitution, laws embody and involve both protection and coercion, in regard to members of society and their rights. As I spoke to earlier, in socialist society for example, […]

     
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  • From Bob Avakian:
    On COVID, The Importance Of Getting People Vaccinated, And The Very Real Problem Regarding Rampant Individualism

    August 16, 2021 Also From Bob Avakian: Important Points of Theory and Method Regarding Freedom and Restrictions on Freedom Extreme individualism—the concept that “I have a right to do whatever I want, in line with my sense of my personal freedom”—is a tremendous problem in this society today, among all sections of the people. And one of the worst things about this is that this extreme individualism is actually a point of unity between some Black people, and other oppressed people, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the genocidal racist fascists. What a terrible situation where some Black people and other […]