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Dreams in Dark Times: A Benefit for The Bob Avakian Institute at Revolution Books
Rolling Stone Disguises Intellectual Cowardice as “Journalism”
A Challenge to Engage Bob Avakian’s Work and Think Outside the System
Documentary Filmmaker David Zeiger: Response to Kristofer Goldsmith [concerning an unprincipled attack on Refuse Fascism, the revcoms and Bob Avakian]
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ANSWERING IGNORANT AND IDIOTIC IDEAS
Part 2By Bob Avakian May 18, 2026 In Part 1, I refuted the ignorant and idiotic idea that there is no such thing as objective truth, and that it is not even possible to know what is true. In this part 2, I am going to speak to the following crucial, scientifically-based truth—and answer common, and widely-propagated, ignorance and idiocy in opposition to this: Only with revolutionary socialist state power can a truly emancipating society actually exist, be sustained, and advance toward the fundamental goal of abolishing and uprooting exploitation and oppression, everywhere, with the achievement of communism, throughout the world. It is […]
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ANSWERING IGNORANT AND IDIOTIC IDEAS
Part 1By Bob Avakian May 18, 2026 Introduction: At the end of my previous article, on the New York Times and War Crimes* I indicated the following. COMING SOON: A series on The Declaration of Independence (and related questions): Inventions and Distortions of Reality and History—in the Service of Real and Repeated Atrocity. After That: Why Black People Flooded into the Union Army in the Civil War…And What That Has to do with Now. Those articles are in fact coming soon, but before that, it seems important to answer two ignorant and idiotic ideas that, unfortunately, are held onto by too many people who consider […]
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New York Times Insists on Support for War Crimes— When They Are “Our” War CrimesBy Bob Avakian May 11, 2026 The New York Times has criticized the way Donald Trump has waged the war against Iran—while, at the same time, the “Times” insists that it is wrong to hope that Trump fails in this war, because that would supposedly make things worse! Let’s get this straight: The launching of this unprovoked and unjust war against Iran, by the U.S., as well as Israel, is—according to international law, and by any meaningful definition—a major war crime. (Among other outrages, the U.S. and Israel launched this war against Iran while Iran was engaged in negotiations with the U.S., and […]
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HUMANITY ON THE BRINK:
A Forced March Into the Abyss,
or Forging a Way Forward Out of the Madness?By Bob Avakian March 2, 2026 Download a PDF of this talk. The Problem: Capitalism-Imperialism—Confining and Force-Marching Humanity to Disaster In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels refer to historical experience where the struggle between contending classes—between oppressor and oppressed groups in society—has led at times to the victory of one or the other, but also, at times, to the “common ruin of the contending classes.” (There are many striking examples of this in the new book Goliath’s Curse, by Luke Kemp.) Today, the prospect of “common ruin”—not just of contending classes and social forces, but of humanity as a whole—is a real […]
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