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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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Bob Avakian on What Motivates My Works And How This Relates to Basic Objectives, Methods and Principles
February 14, 2022 In a conversation I had some time ago with a spoken word artist, he raised the question of how to go about creating a great work. I responded that I don’t set out to produce great works, but to meet great needs. Since, with this orientation and objective, I continue to “churn out” articles, on top of more major works—and particularly now “Something Terrible, Or Something Truly Emancipating”1—and accordingly the website revcom.us is full of works of mine , I feel moved to respond to the following from a student who raised this criticism: Everything flows down from Avakian; […]
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RACISM—WHITE KIDS NEED TO LEARN ABOUT IT
by Bob Avakian February 2, 2022 Today, fascist politicians, “parent groups” and other fascist lunatics are waging a vicious campaign to ban books and in other ways keep kids, and people generally, from learning even some of the basic truths about this country, its actual history and its present reality. One of the main lines of attack of these fascists is the claim that learning about white supremacy and racism will make children—that is, white children—“feel bad.” Well, as a white youth growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, when I learned about white supremacy and racism, it did make me feel bad—and […]
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THE FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS AND THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN
by Bob Avakian February 1, 2022 The essential question at stake with the escalating attack on the right to abortion is the fundamental status of the half of humanity that is female—whether they will be enslaved or emancipated. Of course, in the case of the extremely small number of females who have transitioned (or are transitioning) to males but who retain female reproductive organs and might get pregnant, they should have the right to abortion, and to decent health care overall, without any stigma or discrimination—and in general attacks directed against trans people must be actively, vigorously opposed. But, in terms of […]
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An Important Methodological Point
From Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader and Author of the New Communism January 31, 2022 Here is a very important point, a key component of dialectical materialism: Powerfully imposed necessity very often also holds the potential for crucial transformation. And this is one of those times and circumstances where that is the case. It is true that, if one applies a populist and positivist approach—evaluating things on the basis of where the masses, even (speaking broadly) on the “positive side of the divide,” are at right now; and proceeding linearly from the present quantity and quality of our forces—then certainly the prospect […]
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