Archive for January, 2023
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AMERICA: Truly a Model— of DEPRAVED RACIST GENOCIDE
How can any decent person deny that we need a revolution to overthrow this system?! by Bob Avakian January 13, 2023 This is an excerpt from a talk given by Bob Avakian last year to a gathering of revcoms, which he has edited for publication. There is a very sharp conflict now within this country over whether the history of slavery can even be talked about in any real way, with white supremacist fascists attacking and attempting to prevent any serious discussion of this, and especially its actual horrors, with public education a particular focus of this conflict. Sometimes these […]
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Bob Avakian Responds to a Basic Youth
“Common Sense” Is Often Wrong
A Scientific Approach Shows Revolution Is Possible, Especially In This “Rare Time”January 4, 2023 “It’s just common sense that you can’t go up against this system and overthrow it”—so said a basic youth at a high school, in response to the call to get with the revolution. Yes, that is “common sense.” But “common sense” is often wrong—and it is wrong here too. “Common sense” is what most people believe at a given time (and what seems to be true on the surface, without digging deeper). For a long time in human history, it was “common sense”—most people believed—that the earth doesn’t move and it is the sun that moves in […]