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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
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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”

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.

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

2024 SCENARIOS (A SKETCH), AND THE CHALLENGES

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  • CONSTITUTION For The New Socialist Republic in North America

    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 […]

     

  • BREAKTHROUGHS—
    The Historic Breakthrough By Marx, and the Further Breakthrough With the New Communism, A Basic Summary

    Copyright © 2019 by Bob Avakian. All rights reserved. Published as an eBook and in PDF in 2021 by Insight Press.ISBN: 978-0-9977798-4-4 (ePub) ISBN: 978-0-9977798-5-1 (Mobi)ISBN: 978-0-9977798-6-8 (PDF) Insight Press4044 N. Lincoln Ave. #264Chicago, IL 60618www.insight-press.com Available as an e-book at your favorite online retailer — see Insight Press. Download PDF of this work in 8.5 X 11 inch or 6 X 9 inch format. CONTENTS A Brief Explanatory Preface Karl Marx: For the First Time in History, A Fundamentally Scientific Approach to and Analysis of Human Social Development and the Prospects for Human Emancipation The Breakthrough With Marxism Marxism as a […]

     
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  • Constitution, Law, and Rights

      View or download PDF here now. Order information below. Read from the Introduction: This compilation of selected writings from Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, including excerpts from the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) authored by Bob Avakian and adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA brings a truly unique perspective to a subject that is of critical importance for all those concerned with social justice: Constitution, law, and rights.  Bob Avakian has spent decades summing up the positive and negative experience of the communist revolution so far and drawing on […]