Archive for September, 2021
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Why Do People Believe the Most Ridiculous and Outrageous Nonsense?
WILD DISTORTIONS OF REALITY, DEADLY ILLUSIONS OF “PAINLESS PROGRESS,”
AND THE URGENT NEED FOR A REAL, SCIENTIFICALLY-GROUNDED REVOLUTIONby Bob Avakian September 27, 2021 “We believed…in some of the most fantastic things that you could ever imagine.” Malcolm X, commenting on the “theories” of the Nation of Islam (as cited in Claude Andrew Clegg III, An Original Man, The Life And Times Of Elijah Muhammad). Malcolm was not using the word “fantastic” in this statement to mean something like “really great”—no, he was saying that the doctrine of the Nation of Islam is pure “fantasy” and leads those who follow it to believe the most ridiculous and outrageous things. At another time, it would be worthwhile getting into some […]
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For Nicki “Mirage” and Others Doing Real Harm: Some Straight-Up Scientific Truth
From Bob Avakian
Discouraging People from Getting Vaccines Keeps the COVID Pandemic Going and Killing More People—Especially More Black PeopleSeptember 22, 2021 Here are some critically important basic scientific facts: *Over six hundred thousand (600,000) people have died from COVID, just in the U.S. (more than 4 million worldwide). * Black people have died from COVID at a higher rate than others in the U.S. * The vaccines are very effective against serious illness and death. Today, more than 90 percent of the people seriously ill and dying from COVID have not had vaccines (are unvaccinated). * The vaccines are very safe. Tens of millions of people have gotten the vaccines in this country, overwhelmingly without any serious negative “side effects.” * Hospitals around the country are strained to the […]
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To Those Rising Up and Awakening: It Takes Science and Leadership to Truly Get Free
June 8, 2020 (Reposted from revcom.us) This is written especially to those who have been righteously standing up and fighting back against murder by police and the oppression of Black people more generally, and to all those who have taken heart and inspiration from this, who are newly encountering the Revolution. Welcome! We stand side by side with you in this struggle and unite with your outrage and fury against centuries of oppression that truly must be NO MORE. This outpouring of resistance must continue and it must grow. People must stay in the streets, and this upsurge must get bigger, broader, […]
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“The More I Engaged BA, The More I Could Not Wait to Get Out of Prison”
by Joe Veale, revcom, former member of Black Panther Party January 18, 2021 (Reposted from revcom.us) I’ll start like this. I “knew” BA even before I met him. We grew up in the same city, in Berkeley, California. The Black Panther Party had started in Oakland which was right next to Berkeley. I knew a lot of the rank and file Panthers, once they got going. They were telling me what they were doing—they had developed this organization and they were trying to make revolution to overthrow the system and to put an end to the oppression of Black people. […]
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