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Revolutionary Communism vs. “Decolonization” Theory: 
Three Huge Differences

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ONE:  Decolonization theory focuses on the effect—unjust and savage colonization and genocidal settler-colonial occupation—and not the root cause, which is the system of capitalism-imperialism. This theory cannot lead to liberation.

The new communist revolution scientifically identifies and moves to uproot the main cause and source of the oppression—capitalism-imperialism.

TWO: Proponents of “decolonization” talk endlessly of “the people.” But “the people” are divided into different classes with fundamentally different interests. 

The new communist revolution fights for the objective interests of the proletariat worldwide and on that basis aims for the emancipation of all humanity. As part of that, revolutionary states under new communist leadership move to uproot all forms of colonial, national, “racial,” and neocolonial domination, and all other forms of oppression.

THREE: Too many proponents of “decolonization” enshrine revenge as justified; and too many have excused or even applauded Hamas’s murder of civilians and taking of hostages.

The new communism, as Bob Avakian has said, stands for “the abolition of the state of Israel, and in its place the creation of a revolutionary state in which the government and the laws do not promote any religion and do not favor one people over another, and instead there is equality between Jews and Palestinians.” That will require an all-out revolutionary struggle of millions.

But we oppose the poisonous idea that the ends justify the means. Instead we insist, in the words of Bob Avakian, that even within the all-out struggle for real revolution, “the means must be consistent with the ends.”

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From the genocide in Gaza, to the growing threat of world war between nuclear powers, to escalating environmental devastation… the capitalist-imperialist system ruling over us is a horror for billions around the world and is tearing up the fabric of life on earth. Now the all-out battle within the U.S. ruling class, between fascist Republicans and war criminal Democrats, is coming to a head—likely during, or before, the coming elections—ripping society apart unlike anything since the Civil War.

Bob Avakian (BA), revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, has developed a strategy to prepare for and make revolution. He’s scientifically analyzed that this is a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible, and has laid out the sweeping vision, solid foundation and concrete blueprint for “what comes next,” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

The website revcom.us follows and applies that leadership and is essential to all this. We post new materials from BA and curate his whole body of work. We apply the science he’s developed to analyze and expose every key event in society, every week. Revcom.us posts BA’s timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists), including his social media posts which break this down for people every week and sometimes more. We act as a guiding and connecting hub for the growing revcom movement nationwide: not just showing what’s being done, but going into what’s right and what’s wrong and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force.

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but goes up to a whole different level!

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