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From the Bob Avakian Institute: TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM: What We're Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It's Too Late, Vols. 1 and 2. Available as a PDF for printing in English and Spanish here.
Open letter to academics on fighting fascism and the importance of Bob Avakian’s work (with video interview).
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DAVID BROOKS—THE NOT SO GREAT PRETENDER—AND THE PROFOUND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRUMP, SANDERS AND ACTUAL SOCIALISM
by Bob Avakian March 2, 2020 In an article in the New York Times, February 21, 2020, “Why Sanders Will Probably Get the Nod,” David Brooks attempts to equate Bernie Sanders with Donald Trump because, according to Brooks, each in his own way is a purveyor of a fraudulent but “successful” myth—a right-wing populist myth in Trump’s case, and a left-wing populist myth with Sanders. This is ridiculous. Such an attempt to make Sanders equivalent to Trump (or the “mirror opposite” or “left-wing doppelganger” of Trump) is refuted by simply looking at the obvious reality. As will be discussed here, Sanders does, […]
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BOB AVAKIAN ON
“BARGAINS WITH THE DEVIL” — TRUMP FASCISM, “OBAMANATION,”
AND THE SYSTEM THEY SERVEFebruary 27, 2020 As an atheist I am reluctant to invoke religious imagery, but “bargain with the devil” does seem to be a fitting metaphor to characterize important aspects of what has gone on in recent years in the dominant politics of this country. In The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!1 I pointed to the “unholy alliance” between fundamentalist Christian Fascists and Trump, whose personal behavior and “morals” are flagrantly in conflict with the no less despicable but definitely different “values” espoused by these Christian Fascists. It is, however, not just religious fundamentalists who have made a “bargain with the devil”; it is […]
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BOB AVAKIAN ON
IMPEACHMENT, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, LIBERALS AND LIES,
PROVOCATIVE AND PROFOUND TRUTHSFebruary 22, 2020 In the recent impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the Democratic Party prosecutors (“House Managers”) made a very compelling—indeed irrefutable—case, on the terms on which they were seeking to remove Trump. And the Republican Senators who ignored the facts and the truth, and the principles of the Constitution they had sworn to uphold, and refused to convict Trump in this impeachment trial, have been roundly, and rightly, condemned, particularly by “liberals” (and some others as well). But let’s look at how the Democrats, and “liberals” who have followed in their wake, have not only ignored profound truths but […]
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BOB AVAKIAN ON THE LAW, JUSTICE, AND ENDING OPPRESSION AND EXPLOITATION
Bob Avakian grew up in Berkeley, California in the 1950s at a time when segregation was being challenged in the courts and in the streets, and the issues of inequality and racial discrimination were being debated throughout society. His father was a lawyer and later a Superior Court judge, and Bob Avakian was raised in a family where discussions of legal cases, Constitutional rights, and the judicial process were a staple of dinner time conversation. Not only did this upbringing shape his early political awareness and passion for social justice, but this informal legal training gave him a keen appreciation […]
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