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Topics
Overview on Socialism and Communism
Revolutionary China (1949-1976)
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China (1966-1976)
Socialism and Ending Women’s Oppression
Art & Culture in Socialist Society
Healthcare & Education in Revolutionary China
Socialism in the Soviet Union (1917-1956)
Political Economy of Socialism
Modern Revisionism & Phony Communism
Current China (Under Capitalist Rule)
Overview on Socialism and Communism:
Refuting the Biggest Lies Against Communism:
Trafficking in Lies, Demagoguery, and War Mongering—Timothy Snyder is a Vicious Anti-Communist Ideologue... And Shameless Apologist for the U.S. Empire: A Challenge to Debate from Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 11/7/2023
Fascists and Communists: Completely Opposed and Worlds Apart, by Bob Avakian, Revolution, 7/22/2019
Refuting the Biggest Lies Against Communism: Introduction, Revolution, 10/23/2017
LIE #1: Human nature undermines and invalidates the aims of communism, no matter how noble are its principles, or how sincere are the intentions of its advocates. Read more
LIE #2: Because Socialism-Communism Goes Against Human Nature, It Resorts to State Violence and Mass Killing to Enforce Its Ideals. Read more
LIE #3: The 1917 October Revolution in Russia was a “coup” staged by Lenin and the communist Bolshevik Party. They were power hungry and grabbed power for themselves. Read more
Lie #4: Communism is a form of totalitarianism. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin sought to impose total domination over society—through repression that invaded every aspect of society and individual life, and mind-manipulative ideology. Read more
Pop Quiz
Everything You’ve Been Told about Communism IS WRONG. CAPITALISM IS A FAILURE, COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IS THE SOLUTION, Revolution, 8/28/2023
Bob Avakian’s New Synthesis on the History of Socialism in the 20th century
REVOLUTION: MAJOR TURNING POINTS AND RARE OPPORTUNITIES. Or... Why did Lenin talk about World War 1 as a “stage manager” of revolution?... And why did Mao say, We should thank Japan for invading China? by Bob Avakian, Revolution, 7/10/2023
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNIST THEORY AND THE PROBLEM WITH “MASS LINE”, by Bob Avakian, Revolution, 6/26/2023
No Wonder They Slander Communism, by Bob Avakian, Revolution, 11/18/2013
Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal), by Bob Avakian, October 2010
On Communism, Leadership, Stalin, and the Experience of Socialist Society, Bob Avakian interviewed on The Michael Slate Show, 2005, Revolution, June 2009
Dictatorship and Democracy, and the Socialist Transition to Communism, by Bob Avakian, Fall 1990
The End of a Stage—The Beginning of a New Stage, Mao More Than Ever! by Bob Avakian (PDF), Fall 1990
Advancing the World Revolutionary Movement: Questions of Strategic Orientation, by Bob Avakian, Spring 1984
On Proletarian Democracy and Proletarian Dictatorship—A Radically Different View of Leading Society, excerpts from “Getting Over the Two Great Humps: Further Thoughts on Conquering the World,” by Bob Avakian
Conquer the World? The International Proletariat Must and Will, by Bob Avakian, September 1981
Revolutionary China (1949-1976):
Against the Anti-Communist Brainwash... Part 1. Socialist China’s Great Leap Forward of 1958-60: What It Was Actually About, Why It Is Attacked, and the Actual Causes of Famine, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 10/9/2023
Against the Anti-Communist Brainwash... Part 2. Continuation and Conclusion, Revolution, 10/23/2023
American Crime Case #49: 1950-53—Encircling, Threatening and Attacking the Chinese Revolution, Revolution, 1/1/2018
The TRUE Story of Mao Tsetung and the Communist Revolution in China, by Li Onesto with a Revolution Writers Group
Part 1, Revolution, 8/17/2008
Part 2, Revolution, 8/24/2008
Social and Economic Achievements Under Mao, Fact Sheet, Revolutionary Worker, 8/8/2004
Mao Tsetung: The Art of War
Part 1: Luring the Enemy in Deep, Revolutionary Worker, 11/14/1999
Part 2: The War Against Japanese Aggression, Revolutionary Worker, 11/21/1999
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China (1966-1976):
A Response to Pamela Paul's Knee-Jerk Denunciation of Mao’s Cultural Revolution... Or How Critical Thinking Is Deleted in “The Decade That Cannot Be Deleted”, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 5/22/2023
Six Ways They Try to Bamboozle You About the Cultural Revolution in China and One Big Reason You Need to Dig Deeper and Get the Truth, Revolution, 5/20/2016
“The Cultural Revolution: The Furthest Advance of Human Emancipation Yet,” Chapter 4 in the interview with Raymond Lotta, You Don’t Know What You Think You ‘Know’ About…The Communist Revolution and the REAL Path to Emancipation: Its History and Our Future. Revolution, 11/23/2013
The Cultural Revolution in China... Art and Culture... Dissent and Ferment... and Carrying Forward the Revolution Toward Communism, interview with Bob Avakian on The Michael Slate Show, 2005, Revolution, 2/19/2012, audio at KPFK-LA, Michael Slate
“Alain Badiou’s ‘Politics of Emancipation,’ a Communism Locked within the Confines of a Bourgeois World,” by Raymond Lotta, Nayi Duniya, and K.J.A., see Ch. IV “Rereading the Cultural Revolution in Order to Bury the Cultural Revolution.” Demarcations: a Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic, Issue No. 1, Summer-Fall 2009
Dongping Han: The Unknown Cultural Revolution – Life and Change in a Chinese Village, Revolution, 8/30/2009
Q&A with Dongping Han, Revolution, 9/6/2009
Interview with Bai Di: Growing Up in Revolutionary China, Revolution, 4/12/2009
Check It Out: New Book – The Battle for China’s Past, by Mobo Gao, Revolution, 8/17/2008
“We had a dream that the world can be better than today,” interview with Wang Zheng, author of Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era, Revolution, 9/3/2006
Yang Ban Xi: Model Revolutionary Works in Revolutionary China, by Li Onesto, Revolution, 6/18/2006
The Truth About the Cultural Revolution: Fact Sheet, Revolutionary Worker, 8/29/2004
The Red Guards: Hong Wei Bing – In 1966, millions of youth stormed the heavens during China's Cultural Revolution, Revolutionary Worker, 7/19/1998
Introduction: “Maoist Economics and the Future of Socialism,” from Marxist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook on Political Economy, by Raymond Lotta, 1994, (PDF)
Afterword: “The Theory and Practice of Maoist Planning: In Defense of a Viable and Visionary Socialism,” from Marxist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook on Political Economy, by Raymond Lotta, 1994 (PDF)
Socialism and Ending Women’s Oppression:
Interview with Bai Di: Growing Up in Revolutionary China, Revolution, 4/12/2009
Watching “The People’s Republic of Capitalism” and Remembering the Liberated Women of Socialist China, Revolution, 8/17/2008
“We had a dream that the world can be better than today,” interview with Wang Zheng, author of Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era, Revolution, 9/3/2006
The Experience of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China: Women’s Liberation on the Cutting Edge, Revolution, 3/12/2006
How Collective Childcare Liberated Women in Maoist China, by Li Onesto, Revolutionary Worker, 5/10/1998
The Environment and Socialism:
Some Key Principles of Socialist Sustainable Development, Revolution, 4/18/2010
Capitalism, the Environment, and Ecology Under Socialism, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 6/25/2006
Art & Culture in Socialist Society:
The Cultural Revolution in China... Art and Culture... Dissent and Ferment... and Carrying Forward the Revolution Toward Communism, interview with Bob Avakian on The Michael Slate Show, 2005, Revolution, 2/19/2012, audio at KPFK-LA, Michael Slate
Yang Ban Xi: Model Revolutionary Works in Revolutionary China, by Li Onesto, Revolution, 6/18/2006
Writing for the Revolution: The Story of Lu Xun (1881-1936), Revolutionary Worker, 8/23/1998
Chiang Ching: A Revolutionary Life, Revolutionary Worker, 6/16/1991
Healthcare & Education in Revolutionary China:
Health Care Under Capitalism, Health Care Under Socialism, Revolution, 10/11/2009
How Maoist Revolution Wiped Out Drug Addiction in China, by C. Clark Kissinger, Revolutionary Worker, 12/5/1993
The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China, documentary filmed primarily in 1975.
Socialism in the Soviet Union (1917-1956):
Russia Is NOT the Soviet Union: A Basic History, Revolution, 8/28/2022
Piercing the Lies, Digging Beneath the Surface: The Larger Dynamics of the World Imperialist System Driving the War in Ukraine... And a Lesson from When There Was a Genuinely Socialist Soviet Union, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 3/7/2022
1917—The Revolution Breaks Through in Russia, Chapter 3 from interview with Raymond Lotta, You Don’t Know What You Think You “Know” About…The Communist Revolution and the REAL Path to Emancipation: Its History and Our Future, Revolution, 11/23/2013
Raymond Lotta replies to Keith Jamieson: On Communism, Stalin, and Historical Accuracy, Revolution Online, 12/3/2009
On Communism, Leadership, Stalin, and the Experience of Socialist Society, Bob Avakian, interview on Michael Slate radio show, 2005, Revolution, 6/21/2009
The Outrageous Equating of Communism with Nazism, Revolution, 8/14/2005
Background for the Movie Enemy at the Gate: The Red Street Fighters of Stalingrad, Revolutionary Worker, 4/15/2001
80th Anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution: How the Bolsheviks Seized Power
Part 1: The Bolsheviks Win the Masses, Revolutionary Worker, 11/9/1997
Part 2: Leninist Tactics: Triple Audacity and Relying on the Masses, Revolutionary Worker, 11/16/1997
Part 3: "To Delay Is Fatal", Revolutionary Worker, 11/23/1997
Part 4: The New Day Dawns, Revolutionary Worker, 11/30/1997
History of Socialism:
Story of the Red Flag, Revolution, 5/21/2006
The Communist Manifesto Today: Still True, Still Dangerous, Still the Hope of the Hopeless, by Raymond Lotta
Part 1, Revolutionary Worker, 5/24/1998
Part 2, Revolutionary Worker, 5/31/1998
150th Anniversary: The Story of the Communist Manifesto, Revolutionary Worker, 12/14/1997
The Origins of May First: Haymarket 1886 and the “Troublesome Element,” Revolutionary Worker, 4/14/1986
“The Line of the Comintern on the Civil War in Spain,” Revolution magazine, Issue 49, pp. 32-70, June 1981 (PDF)
Political Economy of Socialism:
Socialist Planning or “Market Socialism”? by Raymond Lotta, Revolutionary Worker, 9/15/2002
When the People Had Power: The Economic Miracles of Maoist China, by Raymond Lotta, Revolutionary Worker, 11/7/1999
Introduction: “Maoist Economics and the Future of Socialism,” from Marxist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook on Political Economy, by Raymond Lotta, 1994, (PDF)
Afterword: “The Theory and Practice of Maoist Planning: In Defense of a Viable and Visionary Socialism,” from Marxist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook on Political Economy, by Raymond Lotta, 1994 (PDF)
Modern Revisionism and Phony Communism:
Unraveling the Lies, Getting to the Truth: On The Death Of Mikhail Gorbachev, Former Leader of the Soviet Union, Revolution, 9/8/2022
Russia Is NOT the Soviet Union: A Basic History, Revolution, 3/28/2022
Cuban People Protest Increasing Hardships and Repression; U.S. Imperialist Vultures Smell Blood, Revolution, 7/26/2021
On the Death of Fidel Castro—Four Points of Orientation, Revolution, 11/27/2016
Re-Colonization in the Name of Normalization: Behind the Re-Establishment of U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Relations, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 12/29/2014
North Korea Is Not a Socialist Society, Revolution, 4/14/2013
Three Alternative Worlds, by Bob Avakian, Revolution, 7/1/2007
Hugo Chavez Has an Oil Strategy...But Can This Lead to Liberation? by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 7/1/2007
U.S. Imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, and Fidel Castro, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 8/13/2006
Current Capitalist-Imperialist China:
China’s Capitalist Development and China’s Rise in the World Imperialist System: Its Nature and Implications, Part 2 in Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy and Great Power Rivalry: What Is Happening and What It Might Mean, by Raymond Lotta, Revolution, 7/27/2008
The Capitalist Ground Shaken by the Earthquake in China, by Li Onesto, Revolution, 6/1/2008
Slave Labor in Today’s Capitalist China: The Real Face of the “Chinese Miracle,” Revolution, 11/4/2007
Snail Fever in China: Scourges of Old Come Back to Life, Revolution, 6/19/2005
Workers Revolt in Capitalist China, Revolutionary Worker, 11/3/2002
Toy Story in China: If Barbie Could Talk, Revolutionary Worker, 9/15/2002
China: AIDS and the epidemic of Capitalism, Revolutionary Worker, 8/26/2001
The Demise of the Barefoot Doctors & the Health Crisis in China's Countryside, Revolutionary Worker, 3/25/2001
Women in China: Free Market Slavery, Revolutionary Worker, 4/11/1999
The End of Deng Xiaoping: Enemy of the People, Revolutionary Worker, 3/2/1997
The Tiananmen Events of 1989:
Tiananmen: It's Right to Rebel, Revolutionary Worker, 6/6/1999
The Tiananmen Square Rebellion: An Inside Story, The RW Interview, Revolutionary Worker, 6/6/1999
China, 1989: The Days of Defiance, Revolutionary Worker, 6/6/1999
Revolution & Counter-Revolution in China, by Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Worker, 6/6/1999
Revolt in China: The Crisis of Revisionism, or Why Mao Tsetung Was Right, by Raymond Lotta, Revolutionary Worker, 5/28/1989