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The Reality Behind the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Dispatches from @BobAvakianOfficial Revolution 17 …further exposing the reality behind the myth of “American exceptionalism”: the ridiculous and outrageous notion that there is something exceptionally good about this country and its “great American democracy.” In reality, this “great democracy” is actually a system of brutal exploitation and murderous oppression, the system of capitalism-imperialism, enforced by the dictatorship of the capitalist class—which, on the basis of its dominant position economically, controls the political process and the police and military that violently enforce this system. Contrary to what is constantly proclaimed by representatives of this capitalist ruling class and its media (its […]
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Israel and Its “Special Role” for U.S. Imperialism
From Bringing Forward Another Way, 2006 To put it in basic terms, Israel is a colonial-settler state which was imposed on the region of the Middle East, at the cost of great suffering for the Palestinian people (and the people of the region more broadly). Israel could not have come into being without the backing of imperialism, and it acts not only in its own interests but as an armed garrison and instrument of enforcement for U.S. imperialism, which supplies the Israeli state with aid, and in particular military aid, to the tune of billions of dollars every year. But, […]
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Why We Are Confronted With the Situation We’re In
From “January 2021 New Year Statement: New Year, The Urgent Need, For A Radically New World — For The Emancipation Of All Humanity” Excerpt from Part 3: To understand why we are confronted with the situation we are, it is necessary not merely to respond to—and in effect be whipped around by—what is happening on the surface at any given time, but to dig beneath the surface, to discover the underlying mainsprings and causes of things, and arrive at an understanding of the fundamental problem and the actual solution. This means coming to the scientific understanding that we are living […]
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The Decisive Question of Internationalism
From BREAKTHROUGHS: The Historic Breakthrough by Marx, and the Further Breakthrough with the New Communism, A Basic Summary, 2019 First of all, there is the decisive question of internationalism.… I want to touch briefly here on the material and the philosophical basis for communist internationalism and the further synthesis of this in the new communism. The material basis lies in the development of capitalism more fully into an international system of capitalist imperialism and the various features of that, including its investment and exploitation much more fully on an international scale (rather than in the earlier stages of capitalism where […]
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