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The latest from @BobAvakianOfficial on Substack:
FEATURED:
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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BASKETBALL AND BIG QUESTIONS
The Caitlin Clark Controversy—Greats, “Greatest of All Time,” White Stars in a “Black Sport,” Racism and the Fight Against it, and the Kind of World We Should Strive to Have by Bob Avakian—revolutionary leader, author and architect of the new communism, and a passionate fan of basketball April 15, 2024 Part 1: Caitlin Clark—A Special, Outstanding Basketball Player The men’s and women’s college (NCAA) basketball championships have just concluded. The men’s championship was won, for the second straight year, by the University of Connecticut (UConn). Of greater interest—mainly for positive reasons, but unfortunately also for negative ones—is the women’s […]
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The Communist Revolution and the Radical Change in Supposedly Unchanging “Human Nature”
Message from @BobAvakianOfficial Revolution 22 Communism will utilize the technology and resources in the world, and the knowledge and abilities of people in the world, for the common good. This will make possible the creation of a common abundance for all of the people, doing away with the need for individuals to struggle just to survive, and eliminating the need for people to compete with each other in order to get the basic necessities of life. On this basis, it will make possible a fundamental transformation of what is now thought of as “human nature.” How is this possible? As I emphasized in message […]
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There Is No Such Thing As “Human Nature.”
Message from @BobAvakianOfficial Revolution 21 One big reason why so many people believe that a revolution and a fundamentally different and much better world is not possible is because of the notion that there is a “human nature,” which cannot really be changed. But the fact is that there is no such thing as “unchanging human nature.” People can and do change all the time, especially with changing circumstances. Things like racism and misogyny (hatred of women) are not “built in” characteristics of white people and men—and the attitude of looking out for yourself, and to hell with everybody else, is not “hard wired” into human […]
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Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today’s World?
from Away with All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World, 2008 All this—and, in relation to it, a relentless ideological offensive by the imperialists and their intellectual camp followers—has led to the notion, widely propagated and propagandized, of the defeat and demise of communism and, for the time being, the discrediting of communism among broad sections of people, including among those restlessly searching for a way to fight back against imperialist domination, oppression and degradation.2 But it is not only communism that the imperialists have worked to defeat and discredit. They have also targeted other secular forces […]
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