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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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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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Screening in Los Angeles
The Bob Avakian Institute and The National Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour invite you to a film screening of Part 1 of Saturday, May 11, 1 – 3 pm AFIBA Center 5730 Crenshaw Boulevard (by Crenshaw and Slauson) Los Angeles, CA 90043 “…we have two choices: either, live with all this—and condemn future generations to the same, or worse, if they have a future at all—or, make revolution!” —Bob Avakian WHO IS BOB AVAKIAN? Bob Avakian, BA, is the most radical revolutionary on the planet. He’s developed the new communism and has written a Constitution for a New […]
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Text of Speech By Bob Avakian
A Speech by Bob Avakian DOWNLOAD PDF OF SPEECH This talk will elaborate on and go more deeply into what is set forth in HOW WE CAN WIN, How We Can Really Make Revolution (a statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party), which provides a crucial guideline that should be taken up and acted on by everyone who hungers for, and wants to be part of bringing into being, a world without the horrors to which the masses of humanity are continually subjected. In line with that, in speaking here about what “we” need to be doing, I am not just talking about those of us […]
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