Bob Avakian
Series of essays and talks from Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP, USA, on issues and contradictions involved in the socialist transition to communism.
This series will address in depth a range of questions, including epistemology and method; the theory of the state; dictatorship and democracy in socialist society; the forms of the new state power; the role of and policy toward classes and strata intermediate between the proletariat and the imperialists in the new society; the importance of dissent; the communist view toward art; the overall approach of “solid core with a lot of elasticity”; and a host of other questions involved in bringing into being a society that would move toward communism and be a vibrant society in which people would actually want to live.
- The Struggle in the Realm of Ideas, November 26, 2006
- Three Alternative Worlds, December 3, 2006
- The Role of Dissent in a Vibrant Society, December 10, 2006
- A Materialist Understanding of the State and its Relation to the Underlying Economic Base, Part 1 (from the talk - Views on Socialism and Communism: A Radically New Kind of State, A Radically Different and Far Greater Vision of Freedom), December 17, 2006
- A Materialist Understanding of the State and its Relation to the Underlying Economic Base, Part 2 (from the talk - Views on Socialism and Communism: A Radically New Kind of State, A Radically Different and Far Greater Vision of Freedom), December 24, 2006
- The New Synthesis: Not Utopianism, But Dealing With Real-World Contradictions (from the talk - The Basis, the Goals, and the Methods of the Communist Revolution), January 7, 2007
- Living With and Transforming the Intermediate Strata in the Transition to Communism, (from the talk - The Basis, the Goals, and the Methods of Communist Revolution), January 14, 2007
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