PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION
Part 1: Objective reality and truth, in opposition to paltry yet poisonous opportunism—perversions of communist theory in the name of proletarian/communist revolution
and
Part 2: More on Marxist “reflection theory,” the importance of communism as a scientific approach to understanding and transforming reality—and refutation of opportunist attacks on this by phony “communists”
June 3, 2024
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “TOTALITARIANISM”
“Totalitarianism” is a thoroughly unscientific—or, really, anti-scientific—“theory” concocted and promoted by intellectual apologists of this system of capitalism-imperialism.
May 20, 2024
BASKETBALL AND BIG QUESTIONS
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
by Bob Avakian—revolutionary leader, author and architect of the new communism, and a passionate fan of basketball
April 15, 2024
2024 SCENARIOS (A SKETCH), AND THE CHALLENGES
January 8, 2024
A Timely Provocation from Bob Avakian
November 10, 2023
Yes, There Can Be No “Equivalence” Between Israel and the Palestinians—But the Reality Is the Reverse of What Supporters of Israel Insist
October 23, 2023
The Moral Blind Spot of Supporters of Israel Who Criticize Hamas—and Hamas Alone—for Murdering Children
October 23, 2023
Some Basic Truths About the U.S.-Supported Israeli War Against Palestine
October 20, 2023
THE TRIALS OF FASCIST DONALD TRUMP,
AND THE CRIMINAL NATURE OF THIS WHOLE SYSTEM
Or: Don’t Be Played for Suckers by Trump’s Posturing, or the Democrats’ Posing as Defenders of Justice—We Need a Revolution and a Fundamentally Different and Far Better System
September 25, 2023
Killer Mike, Ice Cube,
WHY CAPITALIST PROGRAMS and BOURGEOIS ASPIRATIONS CANNOT LEAD TO LIBERATION
and
WHY WE NEED A REAL REVOLUTION
September 18, 2023
CAPITALISTS, ANTI-COMMUNISTS: BLATANT HYPOCRISY, GLARING CONTRADICTION
September 4, 2023
PUTTING AN END TO EXPLOITATION, AND ALL OPPRESSION
August 28, 2023
REVOLUTION: A REAL CHANCE TO WIN
Part 1: We Are Serious, July 31, 2023
Part 2: A Scientifically Based Strategy, August 7, 2023
Part 3: Civil War and Revolution, August 14, 2023
Part 4: Hard Core Youth and the Revolution, August 21, 2023
Part 5: Winning and Winning, August 28, 2023
STATE OF EMERGENCY: CHAINS ON PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY NEED TO BE FREE
A message from Bob Avakian, revolutionary leader, author and architect of a whole new framework for human emancipation: the new communism (with video)
August 14, 2023
GOD, PREJUDICE, OPPRESSION, TERROR AND THE WAY OUT OF THIS MADNESS
July 24, 2023
EXPLOITATION: WHAT IT IS, HOW TO PUT AN END TO IT
(updated with video produced by The RNL—Revolution Nothing Less—Show)
July 24, 2023
SUPREME COURT: CHRISTIAN FASCISTS STEALING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
July 24, 2023
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR… QUACKERY AND CONSPIRACY… UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS AND A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
To Debate or Not to Debate—That Is a Question of Principle and Method
July 17, 2023
LIBERALS… LIAR LIAR
In honor of Daniel Ellsberg: who was willing and determined to face, to speak—and to urge others to speak out about—crucial truths about the crimes of this American empire and the dangers it poses to the people of the world and the very existence of humanity
July 17, 2023
About Bill Maher—
A Further Observation on American Chauvinism And Parasitic Individualism
July 17, 2023
REVOLUTION: MAJOR TURNING POINTS AND RARE OPPORTUNITIES
Or… Why did Lenin talk about World War 1 as a “stage manager” of revolution?…
And why did Mao say, We should thank Japan for invading China?
July 10, 2023
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST THEORY AND THE PROBLEM WITH “MASS LINE”
June 26, 2023
ANTI-SCIENTIFIC “ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM”
Serving American Imperialism and Promoting American Chauvinism
June 12, 2023
“DON’T WORRY ABOUT A NUCLEAR WAR— IF THERE IS ONE, RUSSIA WILL LOSE!”
The Dangerous Demagoguery of Timothy Snyder On Behalf of U.S. Imperialism and Its Proxy War in Ukraine
May 22, 2023
U.S. CONSTITUTION: AN EXPLOITERS’ VISION OF FREEDOM—ADDED NOTES (AND BRIEF INTRODUCTION)
May 8, 2023
AMERICA: Truly a Model — of DEPRAVED RACIST GENOCIDE
How can any decent person deny that we need a revolution to overthrow this system?!
January 13, 2023
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
The Bob Avakian Interviews
A leader for a time when the future hangs in the balance:
Up Close and Personal With Bob Avakian
Heart and Soul & Hard-Core For Revolution (Videos)
Part 1 – November 3, 2022
Part 2 – November 10, 2022
Part 3 – November 17, 2022
AN OPEN LETTER TO THEORETICAL PHYSICIST LEE SMOLIN
July 11, 2022
January 6 Hearings— And the Violence of This System
July 8, 2022
A SERIOUS FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE—
NOT A PETTY HUSTLE FOR “OWNERSHIP”
June 18, 2022
BIPOC LEADERSHIP: THERE IS NO SUCH THING
June 18, 2022
PRONOUNS AND STARVING CHILDREN
June 18, 2022
WORKING WITH BLACK PANTHERS,
WORKING FOR REVOLUTION—
NOT “WOKE IDENTITY” BULLSHIT
May 25, 2022
THE CRUCIAL FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS AND ENDING ALL OPPRESSION
Broad Unity and Necessary Struggle
May 24, 2022
THE WAR IN UKRAINE
AND THE INTERESTS OF HUMANITY:
A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH VS. HARMFUL CONFUSION AND CHAUVINIST DELUSION
Bob Avakian Responds
To People Who Should Know Better (and Maybe Once Did)
May 9, 2022
The Supreme Court Moves to End Abortion Rights:
“Taking to the Streets,”
And Refusing to Let This Go Down
Bob Avakian Speaks to This Critical Juncture in the Fight for Abortion Rights, The Road Forward, and Avoiding Dead Ends
May 9, 2022
Revolution: Hope of the Hopeless
Bob Avakian Speaks To
“WE GOT NO FUTURE
AND WE’RE GONNA DIE YOUNG ANYWAY”
May 4, 2022
WORLD WAR 3
AND DANGEROUS IDIOCY
April 28, 2022
UKRAINE: WORLD WAR 3
IS THE REAL DANGER,
NOT A REPEAT OF WORLD WAR 2
April 22, 2022
“LEGIT GANGSTERS”— GANGSTERS WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• Short Version—The Basic Truth
• Longer Version—The Fuller Picture
April 19, 2022
Sean Penn’s Delirious Madness And the Danger of Nuclear War
April 19, 2022
INTERVIEW WITH BOB AVAKIAN
April 11, 2022
FOUR WORDS FOR LIBERALS WHO LOVE AMERICA
And Some Basic Questions
April 4, 2022
PARASITIC IMPERIALISM, TERRIBLE EFFECTS ON BASIC PEOPLE—
AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUT
April 4, 2022
THE FOG OF WAR, THE CLARITY OF WAR
April 1, 2022
From: Reform or Revolution Questions of Orientation, Questions of Morality
March 28, 2022
Bob Avakian Speaks On
THE FIGHT AGAINST OPPRESSION, THE NEED FOR REVOLUTION— AND OVERCOMING “WOKE” OBSTRUCTION
March 18, 2022
Forces of Brutal Oppression, Hypocritical Apologies for Genocidal Murderers
WHAT SHOULD BE “CANCELED”
March 17, 2022
Bob Avakian Calls Out
FRONTING FOR THIS SYSTEM OF OPPRESSION
March 9, 2022
Shameless American Chauvinism: “Anti-Authoritarianism” as a “Cover” For Supporting U.S. Imperialism
February 25, 2022
Bob Avakian Speaks to “Cult”: A Ridiculous, Ignorant, and Irresponsible Accusation
We Are Applying a Scientific Method and Approach to Understanding, and Transforming, the World To Emancipate Humanity
February 14, 2022
Bob Avakian on
What Motivates My Works
And How This Relates to Basic Objectives, Methods and Principles
February 14, 2022
RACISM—WHITE KIDS NEED TO LEARN ABOUT IT
February 2, 2022
THE FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS AND THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN
February 1, 2022
An Important Methodological Point
From Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader and Author of the New Communism
January 31, 2022
In Light of the Urgency Spoken to in
“Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating”
A RENEWED CHALLENGE:
SEARCHING FOR AN HONEST LIBERAL OR PROGRESSIVE
January 24, 2022
Some Key Points Regarding “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating”
TRUTHS WE NEED TO GET FREE
January 17, 2022
SOMETHING TERRIBLE, OR SOMETHING TRULY EMANCIPATING:
Profound Crisis, Deepening Divisions, The Looming Possibility Of Civil War—
And The Revolution That Is Urgently Needed
A Necessary Foundation, A Basic Roadmap For This Revolution
From Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader and Author of the New Communism
December 13, 2021
THE NATION OF ISLAM: NOT A FORCE FOR—A FORCE AGAINST—EMANCIPATION
We Need a Real Revolution
November 8, 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
October 25, 2021
Living Marxism vs. Vulgarized Marxism
Liberating Revolution, Not Lifeless Reformism
October 18, 2021
Abolition—Real and Illusory
October 11, 2021
Why The World Is So Messed Up,
And What Can Be Done to Radically Change This—
A Basic Scientific Understanding
October 4, 2021
NO RIGHT TO KILL WITH RELIGION
“Religious Exemptions” Are Not a Legitimate Reason for Refusing Vaccines
September 30, 2021
From Bob Avakian
Once Again on Why All Dictatorships Are Not Bad, and Why We Should Want, and Fight for, a Socialist Dictatorship
September 20, 2021
Jacobins Yesterday, Jacobins Today:
A Brief Summation
September 12, 2021
BOB AVAKIAN ON ANARCHISM AND ANARCHISTS—
Some Good Intentions, but No Fundamental Solution, and Some Big Problems
September 6, 2021
From Bob Avakian:
On COVID, The Importance Of Getting People Vaccinated, And The Very Real Problem Regarding Rampant Individualism
August 16, 2021
Also From Bob Avakian:
Important Points of Theory and Method Regarding Freedom and Restrictions on Freedom
August 16, 2021
From Bob Avakian—Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism:
THIS IS A RARE TIME WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE—
WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY
July 13, 2021
Bob Avakian Answers
Accusations of “Cult”:
IGNORANCE, AND COWARDICE
June 22, 2021
WEAPONS OF OPPRESSION,
AND THE HEART TO FIGHT TO END OPPRESSION
June 8, 2021
THE RACIST TULSA MASSACRE—
PART 2: SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND A DEFINITE CONCLUSION
June 2, 2021
THE RACIST TULSA MASSACRE: THE MOST PROFOUND LESSON
June 1, 2021
LEE EVANS, BLACK LIBERATION,
AND THE REVOLUTION THAT IS URGENTLY NEEDED TO EMANCIPATE ALL HUMANITY
May 27, 2021
COMMODITIES & CAPITALISM—AND THE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS SYSTEM
A Basic Explanation
May 24, 2021
Bob Avakian On
Fascist Lunacy and “Woke Folk” Insanity: A New “Two Outmodeds”
May 10, 2021
Bob Avakian on
SHAKESPEARE AND STRATEGIC COMMANDERS OF THE REVOLUTION
March 8, 2021
January 2021: NEW YEAR’S STATEMENT BY BOB AVAKIAN
The Urgent Need For A Radically New World —
For The Emancipation Of All Humanity
See also:
Bob Avakian: Writings in 2020–A Momentous Year