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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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Fascist Distortion and the Response of the New Communism
This article is reposted courtesy of revcom.us, February 6, 2020. In a February 3, 2020 article, “Impeachment Protestors Call for ‘Nonviolent Revolution’ To End U.S. ‘Fascism,’” in The Federalist (which may not be officially affiliated with the powerful Federalist Society but clearly shares much of its right-wing reactionary outlook and objectives), Krystina Skurk attacks the diverse grouping of #OUTNOW! demonstrators calling for mass mobilization to demand the removal of the Trump/Pence fascist regime, and she especially targets those among the demonstrators who are advocates of the new communism brought forward by Bob Avakian (BA). In the latter dimension, it seems clear that Skurk […]
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BOB AVAKIAN:
A RADICALLY DIFFERENT LEADER—A WHOLE NEW FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATIONBob Avakian (BA) is the most important political thinker and leader in the world today. Bob Avakian is completely different than the endless stream of bourgeois politicians who are put forward as “leaders,” whose goal is to maintain one variation or another of this system of capitalism-imperialism that is founded on and perpetuates itself through cruel and literally life-stealing exploitation, murderous oppression, and massive destruction, in all parts of the world. BA is a revolutionary who bases himself on the scientific understanding that this system must finally be overthrown through an organized struggle involving millions of people, and replaced with […]
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Hope For Humanity On A Scientific Basis
Breaking with Individualism, Parasitism and American Chauvinism by Bob Avakian Author of The New Communism Prepublication copy November 2019 Copyright © 2019 by Bob Avakian. All rights reserved. Download as PDF This is an important new work by Bob Avakian, from which the excerpt “Individualism, BEB and the Illusion of ‘Painless Progress,’” which has been posted on this site since the summer of 2019, has been drawn. CONTENTS No Hope—vs. No Permanent Necessity The Problem of Individualism Virulent Individualism and Oblivious Individualism Individualism, BEB and the Illusion of “Painless Progress” Parasitism, American Chauvinism, and Individualism Identity Politics and Individualism Individualism […]
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Individualism, BEB and the Illusion of “Painless Progress”
The following is taken from a 2019 talk given by Bob Avakian All this—even the seemingly more “benign,” or oblivious, individualism—links up with the repeated and stubborn insistence on chasing after the illusion of painless progress. If something makes people uncomfortable—and still more, if it holds out the prospect of sacrifice, necessary sacrifice, on their part—far too many people turn away from it. As I’ve pointed out before, there’s this whole attitude of approaching reality as if it’s a “buffet,” or approaching it like a consumer: “Well, that makes me uncomfortable. I’ll just leave that to the side. I don’t want […]
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