A Letter from a Reader—To the Revcoms, and All Who Seek a Radically New World

December 9, 2024

“A clear before and an after”:

What Bob Avakian (BA) has brought forward is not just another big advance in the history of our project.¹ In the history of our project there is a clear “before” and an “after,” that is delineated by the emergence of the new synthesis of communism developed by BA—yes, building on the many lessons and accomplishments of the past, but, crucially, breaking with and discarding a tremendous amount of wrong thinking, wrong methods, and wrong practices, that, despite best intentions, seriously vitiated and contributed to derailing the first wave of socialist revolutions.

We shouldn’t want to repeat any of that! We shouldn’t want even the best of the past socialist revolutions and societies, especially now that we have an even much better theoretical and practical framework to work with! What BA has developed with the new communism really is a NEW path forward for humanity that is very DIFFERENT, and MUCH BETTER than anything that the first wave of socialism/communism was even able to conceive of, let alone put into practice.

How much do we all really understand and appreciate that? Really agree?

Do we help our comrades, as well as broader masses of people, to really understand and appreciate this fully? If you study Breakthroughs you should be able to see that Marx and Engels obviously made a key initial breakthrough, and that Lenin had to make further major breakthroughs (or there would have been no socialist revolution in Russia) and that Mao had to lead through yet another great conceptual and practical leap, not only to be able to make revolution in a country such as China but very critically in order to recognize the limitations of the new society, the persistence of revisionist capitalist-roaders and the need to “continue the revolution” even under socialism.

These were all important and very necessary leaps and breakthroughs, but THE Breakthrough that BA has made (concentrated in Resolution #1² and the whole of what is new and different about the new synthesis of communism he has brought forth) is of a whole different order, of QUALITATIVELY GREATER IMPORTANCE than even those prior significant and invaluable developments along the path to human emancipation.

In basic terms: NEW. VERY DIFFERENT. AND MUCH BETTER!

This is why the emergence of the new synthesis demarcates the end of a stage and the beginning of a new stage. Do we actually get and agree with this? And, if so, do we regularly bring it to life for people, even in very basic and simple terms, including for our own ranks?

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FOOTNOTES:

1. Our project is a communist world, free from all forms of exploitation and oppression, with an emancipating culture. [back]

2. From the Six Resolutions of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (January 1, 2016). [back]

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