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Is the Trump regime and the MAGA movement actually fascist? Is there something in the basic nature and historical development of this country that has provided favorable soil for the rise of this fascism? What is the fundamental nature of the system in this country: is it democracy—or something else? What is capitalism, and what are its actual effects and consequences, in this country and in the world as a whole? Why are the 8 billion people on the planet faced with a profound, acute, and potentially existential crisis, as a result of the accelerating devastation of the environment and the heightening danger of nuclear war among the world’s most powerful countries? Is there a viable solution and positive alternative to all this—and can it be brought about within the confines of the system prevailing in this country and dominating in the world as a whole— or does it require a fundamental revolutionary transformation, and how could such a revolutionary transformation actually be achieved? Is the widespread, commonplace dismissal and denunciation of communism based on a scientific analysis of the actual experience of communism—or on gross ignorance, profound prejudice and deliberate distortion relentlessly promoted by the ruling forces, gate-keepers and apologists of the existing capitalist system? What about the role of organized vanguards and individual leaders with disproportionate influence: is this always, and by its very nature, a negative phenomenon, or can it actually represent a positive and even essential part of an emancipating process?

These and other questions bearing decisively on the fate and future of humanity are directly addressed and deeply mined in this provocative essay by Bob Avakian, who, based on critical analysis of the historical experience of the communist movement and drawing from a broad range of human endeavor, has brought forward a new communism, which represents a continuation of, but also a qualitative leap beyond, and in some important ways a break with, communist theory as it had been previously developed.

Bob Avakian is a revolutionary leader and communist theoretician whose extensive body of work includes more than a hundred films, books, articles, and audio recordings. For those interested in learning more about the new communism, his work BREAKTHROUGHS: The Historic Breakthroughs by Marx and the Further Breakthroughs with the New Communism– A Basic Summary serves as an excellent introduction. He is also the author of the landmark work, the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, which provides a comprehensive, visionary, and at the same time concrete, framework and guide for building this new society as an important part of advancing towards a communist world free of exploitation and oppression.

–Insight Press, May 16, 2026

On The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, by Bob Avakian

It is a fact that, nowhere else, in any actual or proposed founding or guiding document of any government, is there anything like not only the protection but the provision for dissent and intellectual and cultural ferment that is embodied in this Constitution, while this has, as its solid core, a grounding in the socialist transformation of the economy, with the goal of abolishing all exploitation, and the corresponding transformation of the social relations and political institutions, to uproot all oppression, and the promotion, through the educational system and in society as a whole, of an approach that will “enable people to pursue the truth wherever it leads, with a spirit of critical thinking and scientific curiosity, and in this way to continually learn about the world and be better able to contribute to changing it in accordance with the fundamental interests of humanity.”

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