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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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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 by Bob Avakian July 17, 2023 Recently there has been a debate among various political commentators and others about whether people should debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr about vaccines. Kennedy is someone who has put forward a number of clearly disproved and irrational claims about a number of things, including the supposed harmful effects not only of COVID vaccines but other vaccines which have long been used to prevent (or mitigate) serious and even potentially deadly diseases. For this reason, along with the fact that Kennedy has […]
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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? by Bob Avakian July 10, 2023 Let’s begin with this: In the most fundamental sense, communist revolutions do not come about simply as a result of the revolutionary work and struggle of the communists. Why am I raising this? To argue that what communists do is unimportant?! No—obviously not. It is of definite and vital importance for communists to work consistently, and struggle vigorously, with determination and creativity, to win masses of people to […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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