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The Caitlin Clark Controversy—Greats, “Greatest of All Time,” White Stars in a “Black Sport,” Racism and the Fight Against it, and the Kind of World We Should Strive to Have

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The Moral Blind Spot of Supporters of Israel Who Criticize Hamas—and Hamas Alone—for Murdering Children

Yes, There Can Be No “Equivalence” Between Israel and the Palestinians—But the Reality Is the Reverse of What Supporters of Israel Insist

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Archive for October, 2021

 

  • “WORKERS’ DEMOCRATIC CONTROL”—A DAMAGING DELUSION:
    IMPOSSIBLE UNDER CAPITALISM, DESTRUCTIVE UNDER SOCIALISM

    We Need a Revolutionary Transformation of Society, and the World—Not a Bourgeois-Democratic Continuation, or Restoration, of Capitalism by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader and Author of the New Communism October 25, 2021 Among some “democratic socialists”—whose program is not really aimed at bringing about socialism, but represents an illusory attempt to make capitalism “more democratic” and less unequal—there is the notion of “workers’ democratic control” of the economy, and in particular the places where they work. (A similar notion is also put forward by some anarchists and other “leftists.”) As the title of this article indicates, this is impossible under capitalism […]

     

  • Living Marxism vs. Vulgarized Marxism
    Liberating Revolution, Not Lifeless Reformism

    by Bob Avakian October 18, 2021 With certain political trends—including among the “woke,” the “progressive” and those “on the left” generally—this is a common refrain: “Marxism only deals with class, and does not speak to, or has no solution for, white supremacy and male supremacy.” This, where it is not a matter of outright dishonesty, is an expression of gross ignorance. Marxism, in its development from the time of Marx himself to the present, has been and is today the most sweeping approach to reality as a whole, and specifically to the transformation of the world, aiming for emancipation from every form […]

     
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  • ABOLITION—REAL AND ILLUSORY

    by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism October 11, 2021 Today, there are people who call themselves “abolitionists.” In addition to the abolition of literal slavery remaining in the world today, for some “abolition” means the ending not only of the racial discrimination that exists throughout the law and the application of the law in this country, and the mass incarceration that is bound up with this, but the ending of a society that requires and institutionalizes these outrages. But what these abolitionists do not say—and what is critically important to recognize, and act on—is the truth that it […]

     

  • Why The World Is So Messed Up, And What Can Be Done to Radically Change This—
    A Basic Scientific Understanding

    by Bob Avakian October 4, 2021 In today’s world, to fundamentally change society, you must seize power—overthrow the existing state power and establish a new state power. In the article Commodities & Capitalism—And The Terrible Consequences Of This System, A Basic Explanation, I examined the basic contradictions which have historically developed in the foundation and at the core of the capitalist system, and how the communist revolution—and only the communist revolution—can bring about a resolution of these contradictions that is in the interests of the masses of humanity, and ultimately humanity as a whole.1 In another article, I spoke to this crucial […]

     
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  • NO RIGHT TO KILL WITH RELIGION
    “Religious Exemptions” Are Not a Legitimate Reason for Refusing Vaccines