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The latest from @BobAvakianOfficial on Substack:
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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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THE NATION OF ISLAM: NOT A FORCE FOR—A FORCE AGAINST—EMANCIPATION
We Need a Real Revolution by Bob Avakian November 8, 2021 Louis Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam (NOI) of which he is the head, pose as angry and powerful opponents of white supremacy. But the truth is that neither the doctrine of the Nation of Islam, nor its actions, represent the road to ending white supremacy and liberating Black people (or anyone else). Their doctrine and program actually contribute to maintaining white supremacy and other horrific oppression, including male supremacy and the patriarchal oppression of women, all of which is built into the system of capitalism-imperialism that we are now forced to live […]
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“WORKERS’ DEMOCRATIC CONTROL”—A DAMAGING DELUSION:
IMPOSSIBLE UNDER CAPITALISM, DESTRUCTIVE UNDER SOCIALISMWe Need a Revolutionary Transformation of Society, and the World—Not a Bourgeois-Democratic Continuation, or Restoration, of Capitalism by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Leader and Author of the New Communism October 25, 2021 Among some “democratic socialists”—whose program is not really aimed at bringing about socialism, but represents an illusory attempt to make capitalism “more democratic” and less unequal—there is the notion of “workers’ democratic control” of the economy, and in particular the places where they work. (A similar notion is also put forward by some anarchists and other “leftists.”) As the title of this article indicates, this is impossible under capitalism […]
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Living Marxism vs. Vulgarized Marxism
Liberating Revolution, Not Lifeless Reformismby Bob Avakian October 18, 2021 With certain political trends—including among the “woke,” the “progressive” and those “on the left” generally—this is a common refrain: “Marxism only deals with class, and does not speak to, or has no solution for, white supremacy and male supremacy.” This, where it is not a matter of outright dishonesty, is an expression of gross ignorance. Marxism, in its development from the time of Marx himself to the present, has been and is today the most sweeping approach to reality as a whole, and specifically to the transformation of the world, aiming for emancipation from every form […]
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