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Bob Avakian (BA)—Official Biography
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Updated May 2024

 

This Bob Avakian (BA) Official Biography is published here with the permission of The Bob Avakian Institute.

 

Introduction

 

"If you don't have a poetic spirit—or at least a poetic side—it is very dangerous for you to lead a Marxist movement or be the leader of a socialist state."

 

— Bob Avakian

Bob Avakian

 

Bob Avakian (BA) is the architect of a whole new framework of human emancipation, the new synthesis of communism, which is popularly referred to as the "new communism."

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