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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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From Bob Avakian—Revolutionary Leader, Author of the New Communism
THIS IS A RARE TIME
WHEN REVOLUTION BECOMES POSSIBLE—
WHY THAT IS SO, AND HOW TO SEIZE ON THIS RARE OPPORTUNITYJuly 13, 2021 Many people have seen the very important statement from the revcoms, A Declaration, A Call To Get Organized Now For A Real Revolution, which is available at revcom.us, and is being posted and passed out to people in neighborhoods and other places around the country, as a key part of spreading the word about this revolution and organizing people into this revolution. Many more people need to get, and get deeply into, this “Declaration and Call.” Here, I am going to speak to some big questions related to this. FIRST, SOME BASIC TRUTHS 1. We live under a system—the system […]
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Further Supplementary Excerpts
Editors’ Note: Previously, we have published excerpts from works by Bob Avakian (which are available at TheBobAvakianInstitute.org or revcom.us) that are relevant to the article Bob Avakian On Fascist Lunacy and “Woke Folk” Insanity: A New “Two Outmodeds” and generally to the phenomena of “identity politics,” “wokeness,” individualism, parasitism, and American chauvinism. The following are further relevant excerpts, from Hope For Humanity On A Scientific Basis, Breaking with Individualism, Parasitism and American Chauvinism (2019), which is available at TheBobAvakianInstitute.org or revcom.us/BA’s Collected Works. (Boldface emphasis has been added here by the author.) Lack of real hope for a better life in this world is a heavy chain […]
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Supplementary excerpts from Bob Avakian
Editors’ Note: The following excerpts from works by Bob Avakian (which are available at TheBobAvakianInstitute.org or revcom.us) are relevant to the article Bob Avakian On Fascist Lunacy and “Woke Folk” Insanity: A New “Two Outmodeds” and generally to the phenomena of “identity politics,” “wokeness,” individualism, parasitism and American chauvinism. From Breakthroughs, The Historic Breakthrough by Marx, and the Further Breakthrough with the New Communism, A Basic Summary (ebook edition, 2021). And then there’s BAsics 4:10: For humanity to advance beyond a state in which “might makes right”—and where things ultimately come down to raw power relations—will require, as a fundamental element in this advance, an approach to understanding things […]
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I’m So Sick of this Whole “Identity Politics” and “Woke” Thing
REVOLUTION AND EMANCIPATION—NOT PETTY REFORM AND REVENGE:
On Movements, Principles, Methods, Means and Endsby Bob Avakian June 24, 2021 The Ends Must Determine the Means, Not the Ends “Justify” the Means Movements—in the social and political sense—involve people acting together for certain objectives. Positive social and political movements mobilize masses of people in struggle against oppressive and murderous policies and actions of their government and oppressive social relations (such as white supremacy and male supremacy) and the institutions and culture that embody, promote, and enforce them. For example, in recent years, there have been powerful movements against institutional racism and police terror, in this country and all around the world. And, in many countries, there have been mass outpourings against […]
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