Featured and Timely from Bob Avakian
What follows is not comprehensive, but aimed at highlighting key and timely works from Bob Avakian.
For a more extensive listing of BA's works, go here.
- Essential readings from BA
- BA: A Different Kind of Leader
- What Is Science?
- Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
- Internationalism
- Revolution Not Reform
- Revolutionary Strategy
- Exploitation
- Democracy and Dictatorship
- Palestine
- On Fascism
- The Oppression of Women
- The Oppression of Black People
- “Woke” Obstructions
- Ukraine
- Sports and Big Questions
- On Liberals and Parasitic Imperialism
Bob Avakian: A Completely Different Kind of Leader
Bob Avakian Answers: "What Sustains You?"
From The Bob Avakian Interviews
What Is Science? Can We Apply Science to Society?
Excerpts from SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION
An Interview with Ardea Skybreak
PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION
by Bob Avakian
Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
On The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, by Bob Avakian
It is a fact that, nowhere else, in any actual or proposed founding or guiding document of any government, is there anything like not only the protection but the provision for dissent and intellectual and cultural ferment that is embodied in this Constitution, while this has, as its solid core, a grounding in the socialist transformation of the economy, with the goal of abolishing all exploitation, and the corresponding transformation of the social relations and political institutions, to uproot all oppression, and the promotion, through the educational system and in society as a whole, of an approach that will “enable people to pursue the truth wherever it leads, with a spirit of critical thinking and scientific curiosity, and in this way to continually learn about the world and be better able to contribute to changing it in accordance with the fundamental interests of humanity.”
“Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First.” —BAsics 5:8
“If you can conceive of a world without America—without everything America stands for and everything it does in the world—then you’ve already taken great strides and begun to get at least a glimpse of a whole new world. If you can envision a world without any imperialism, exploitation, oppression—and the whole philosophy that rationalizes it—a world without division into classes or even different nations, and all the narrow-minded, selfish, outmoded ideas that uphold this; if you can envision all this, then you have the basis for proletarian internationalism. And once you have raised your sights to all this, how could you not feel compelled to take an active part in the world historic struggle to realize it; why would you want to lower your sights to anything less?”
—Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:31
Bob Avakian on Imperialism and Internationalism... The Whole World Comes First—NOT America First
Would Mexico and Central America still be the U.S. backyard after the revolution? Q&A with Bob Avakian
Liberating Revolution, Not Lifeless Reformism
The Strategy for Revolution... In This Rare Time
On Exploitation
Democracy and Dictatorship
Bob Avakian on Democracy And Dictatorship
An Excerpt from The Bob Avakian Interviews
On Palestine, Israel, Imperialism: War, The Danger of Even Greater War—And Revolution
To put it in basic terms, Israel is a colonial-settler state which was imposed on the region of the Middle East, at the cost of great suffering for the Palestinian people (and the people of the region more broadly), Israel could not have come into being without the backing of imperialism, and it acts not only in its own interests but as an armed garrison and instrument of enforcement for U.S. imperialism.
Bob Avakian on the Two Meanings of “Never Again”
An except from REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN
This groundbreaking analysis, made during the George W. Bush years, continues to be very relevant, especially in the context of sharpening contradictions centered in the Middle East.
On the Oppression of Women and the Revolutionary Struggle to Emancipate ALL Humanity
You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can’t say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.
Bob Avakian, BAsics 3:22
Bob Avakian: Break ALL The Chains
An excerpt from The Bob Avakian Interviews
Why does private ownership of the means of production result in oppression of women?
Q&A With Bob Avakian
On the Oppression of Black People and the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression
BOB AVAKIAN FOR THE LIBERATION OF BLACK PEOPLE AND THE EMANCIPATION OF ALL HUMANITY
Opposing “Woke” Distractions and Obstructions
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Bob Avakian: Woke is a Joke, a Bad Joke
On the War In Ukraine — Essential Reading
