Excerpts from
THE NEW COMMUNISM
by Bob Avakian

The science, the strategy, the leadership
for an actual revolution
and a radically new society
on the road to real emancipation

February 29, 2016

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The New Communism

Introduction and Orientation
and
The Cultural Revolution Within the RCP

The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America—Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core

Hastening While Awaiting

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Foolish Victims of Deceit, and Self-Deceit

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Foolish Victims of Deceit, and Self-Deceit

Materialism vs. Idealism

Through Which Mode of Production

The Basic Contradictions and Dynamics of Capitalism

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The New Synthesis of Communism

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The New Synthesis of Communism

The Basis for Revolution

Epistemology and Morality, Objective Truth and Relativist Nonsense

Self and a “Consumerist” Approach to Ideas

What Is Your Life Going to Be About?—Raising People’s Sights

The “4 Alls”

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Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right

Another Kind of "Pyramid"

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Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right

Socialism as an Economic System and a Political System–And a Transition to Communism

Internationalism

Abundance, Revolution, and the Advance to Communism—A Dialectical Materialist Understanding

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The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America—Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core

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The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America—Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core

Emancipators of Humanity

One Overall Strategic Approach

Hastening While Awaiting

Forces For Revolution

National Liberation and Proletarian Revolution

The Strategic Importance of the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women

The Decisive Role of Leadership

The United Front under the Leadership of the Proletariat

Youth, Students and the Intelligentsia

The "5 Stops"

The Two Mainstays

Internationalism and an International Dimension
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Internationalism—Revolutionary Defeatism

Fundamental Orientation

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The Decisive Role of Leadership

A Leading Core of Intellectuals—and the Contradictions Bound Up with This

Another Kind of “Pyramid”

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Another Kind of “Pyramid”

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Another Kind of “Pyramid”

The Cultural Revolution Within the RCP

The Need for Communists to Be Communists

A Fundamentally Antagonistic Relation—and the Crucial Implications of That

Strengthening the Party—Qualitatively as well as Quantitatively

Forms of Revolutionary Organization, and the “Ohio”

Statesmen, and Strategic Commanders

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Methods of Leadership, the Science and the “Art” of Leadership

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Methods of Leadership, the Science and the “Art” of Leadership

Working Back from “On the Possibility”—Another Application of “Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core”

Contents

Publisher's Note

Introduction and Orientation

Foolish Victims of Deceit, and Self-Deceit

Part I. Method and Approach, Communism as a Science

Materialism vs. Idealism
Dialectical Materialism
Through Which Mode of Production
The Basic Contradictions and Dynamics of Capitalism
The New Synthesis of Communism
The Basis for Revolution
Epistemology and Morality, Objective Truth and Relativist Nonsense
Self and a “Consumerist” Approach to Ideas
What Is Your Life Going to Be About?—Raising People’s Sights

Part II. Socialism and the Advance to Communism:
A Radically Different Way the World Could Be, A Road to Real Emancipation

The “4 Alls”
Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right
Socialism as an Economic System and a Political System—And a Transition to Communism
Internationalism
Abundance, Revolution, and the Advance to Communism—A Dialectical Materialist Understanding
The Importance of the “Parachute Point”—Even Now, and Even More With An Actual Revolution
The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America—
Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core
Emancipators of Humanity

Part III. The Strategic Approach to An Actual Revolution

One Overall Strategic Approach
Hastening While Awaiting
Forces For Revolution
Separation of the Communist Movement from the Labor Movement, Driving Forces for Revolution
National Liberation and Proletarian Revolution
The Strategic Importance of the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
The United Front under the Leadership of the Proletariat
Youth, Students and the Intelligentsia
Struggling Against Petit Bourgeois Modes of Thinking, While Maintaining the Correct Strategic Orientation
The “Two Maximizings”
The “5 Stops”
The Two Mainstays
Returning to "On the Possibility of Revolution"
Internationalism—Revolutionary Defeatism
Internationalism and an International Dimension
Internationalism—Bringing Forward Another Way
Popularizing the Strategy
Fundamental Orientation

Part IV. The Leadership We Need

The Decisive Role of Leadership
A Leading Core of Intellectuals—and the Contradictions Bound Up with This
Another Kind of “Pyramid”
The Cultural Revolution Within the RCP
The Need for Communists to Be Communists
A Fundamentally Antagonistic Relation—and the Crucial Implications of That
Strengthening the Party—Qualitatively as well as Quantitatively
Forms of Revolutionary Organization, and the “Ohio”
Statesmen, and Strategic Commanders
Methods of Leadership, the Science and the “Art” of Leadership
Working Back from “On the Possibility”—
Another Application of “Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core”

Appendix 1:
The New Synthesis of Communism:
Fundamental Orientation, Method and Approach,
and Core Elements—An Outline
by Bob Avakian

Appendix 2:
Framework and Guidelines for Study and Discussion

Notes

Selected List of Works Cited

About the Author

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