Archive for June, 2023
-
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST THEORY AND THE PROBLEM WITH “MASS LINE”
by Bob Avakian June 26, 2023 Mao’s Contributions to Communist Theory and Human Emancipation Are Truly Profound—But the “Mass Line” Is Wrong The Chinese revolution, and in particular the revolutionary upsurge of the Cultural Revolution in China (a revolution within socialist society itself!) and the role of Mao Zedong as the leader of that Cultural Revolution, in the 1960s and into the early 1970s, had a major positive impact on masses of people around the world. This included large numbers of oppressed people and educated youth in the U.S. The Red Book of quotations from Mao was in the hands […]
-
ANTI-SCIENTIFIC “ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM”
Serving American Imperialism and Promoting American Chauvinism by Bob Avakian June 12, 2023 In a previous article I examined how the misleading concept of “authoritarianism,” like the closely related “theory” of “totalitarianism,” is an anti-scientific “theory” which serves American imperialist interests and promotes American chauvinism (the sickening belief in the superiority of Americans and “the American way of life”).* As analyzed in that previous article, this “theory” of “authoritarianism” has been wielded on behalf of U.S. imperialism in its contention with its imperialist rival China, and in the service of U.S. rivalry with Russian imperialism as focused now in the war in Ukraine. […]