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The latest from @BobAvakianOfficial on Substack:
FEATURED:
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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PARASITIC IMPERIALISM,
TERRIBLE EFFECTS ON BASIC PEOPLE—
AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUTby Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism April 4, 2022 Previous writings of mine, and other important works available at revcom.us, have shined a light on the ways that the parasitism of U.S. imperialism—its domination of countries throughout the Third World (Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia) and super-exploitation of masses of people in those countries, including more than 150 million children—has provided a certain standard of living, and relatively stable conditions of life, particularly for the “middle class” in this country.1 One manifestation of this is a significant growth of the Black middle class. But, at […]
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THE FOG OF WAR, THE CLARITY OF WAR
by Bob Avakian April 1, 2022 The “fog of war” refers to the fact that, in a situation of warfare, many things become obscured. To put it simply, it is often difficult to tell exactly what is happening. Related to this is the fact that war, once begun, has its own dynamics: things often do not go the way that the people who started a war, or became involved in it, expected them to go. This has very heavy meaning in the current war in Ukraine, which involves not just Russia and Ukraine but also the imperialist alliance (NATO), headed […]
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Reform or Revolution Questions of Orientation, Questions of Moralityby Bob Avakian March 28, 2022 Editors’ note: The following are excerpts from the essay that is a supplement to Chapter 1 of BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian. Now, when you come up against the great gulf that often, and even generally, exists between the conditions and the suffering of the masses of people, on the one hand, and what you are able to do about that at any given point—when you run up against that repeatedly, everyone feels a definite pull which expresses itself in moral terms: how can you stand by and not do something […]
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Bob Avakian Speaks On
THE FIGHT AGAINST OPPRESSION,
THE NEED FOR REVOLUTION—
AND OVERCOMING “WOKE” OBSTRUCTIONMarch 18, 2022 A concentrated way to describe much that is wrong with “woke identity politics” is this: It is an attempt to dictate what parts of reality can be talked about, and by whom—and an attempt to change the “labels” on reality, instead of transforming the reality itself, to actually eliminate and uproot very real oppression. This has stood out very clearly, for example, around the right to abortion. The right to abortion hangs by a thread right now, and there is the real possibility of its being torn away from the women and girls for whom this right is essential to their […]
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