NEW COMMUNISM: The Science, the Strategy, the Leadership for an Actual Revolution, and a Radically New Society on the Road to Real Emancipation - Hardcover
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<div>Nominee: 2017 American Book Fest, Best Book Awards.<br><br> For anyone who cares about the state of the world and the condition of humanity and agonizes over whether fundamental change is really possible, this landmark work provides a sweeping and comprehensive orientation, foundation, and guide to making the most radical of revolutions: a communist revolution aimed at emancipating humanity--getting beyond all forms of oppression and exploitation on a world scale.<br><br> The author, Bob Avakian, is the architect of a new synthesis of communism. This new synthesis is a continuation of, but also represents a qualitative leap beyond, and in some important ways a break with, communist theory as it had been previously developed. Avakian has written this book in such a way as to make even complex theory accessible to a broad audience. In this book, he draws on his decades of work advancing the science of communism and his experience as a revolutionary communist leader, including leading the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, as its Chairman since its founding in 1975.<br><br> This is a path-breaking work, one that scientifically analyzes the system of capitalism-imperialism and its unresolvable contradictions;confronts the challenges facing the movement for revolution; and forges a way forward to making an actual revolution in this country, as part of contributing to communist revolution internationally</div>
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<div>"If you don't have a poetic spirit – or at least a poetic side – it is very dangerous for you to lead a Marxist movement or be the leader of a socialist state. " — Bob Avakian<br><br><b>Bob Avakian (BA)</b> is the architect of a whole new framework of human emancipation, the new synthesis of communism, which is popularly referred to as the "new communism. " The goal of the new communism is a total revolution – the most radical revolution in human history that aims at nothing less than overcoming all forms of oppression and exploitation all over the world, a society where humanity could truly flourish. The new synthesis is based on more than 40 years of revolutionary work that BA has done critically analyzing and drawing from past revolutionary experience and theory, and a broad range of human activity and thought. It is a continuation of, but also represents a qualitative leap beyond, and in some important ways a break with, communist theory as it had been previously developed. It provides the basis – the science, the strategy, and the leadership – for an actual revolution and a radically new society on the road to real emancipation.<br><br> Bob Avakian is the author of the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America , an inspiring application of the new synthesis of communism. This Constitution, which was adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, in 2010, is a blueprint for the new socialist society, beginning with Day One of a protracted transitional period leading to a world without classes and class distinctions, a world without oppression and the destructive divisions and antagonisms between people.<br><br> Ardea Skybreak, a scientist with professional training in ecology and evolutionary biology, and a follower of Bob Avakian (BA), captures the essence of BA's revolutionary work and leadership over the last 40 years:<br><br> "The hallmark of Bob Avakian's work [has been] working on building a society that most human beings would want to live in. Bob Avakian has been spending his whole life, dec- ades and decades, developing work that is deepening our understanding of why these problems are not just accidental, or periodic anomalies – how they actually stem from, originate in, the deeper structures of the system, and why it's the system itself, the system of capitalism imperialism, that has to go, and be replaced with a completely different system, before we could really emancipate humanity."<br><br> Central to Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism is its thorough and consistent scientific method and approach. "The new synthesis represents and embodies a qualitative resolution of a critical contradiction that has existed within communism in its development up to this point, between its fundamentally scientific method and approach, and aspects of communism which have run counter to this." [Six Resolutions of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, January 1, 2016.]<br><br> This qualitative advance in the scientific approach to making revolution and emancipating humanity provides the foundation and point of departure for a new stage of communist revolution that is urgently needed in the world today. The scientific method and approach of the new synthesis is key to its theoretical breakthroughs which include: deepening the understanding of internationalism; developing new insights into the strategic approach to revolution, which reveal the actual possibility of making revolution, even in a country like the U.S.; and re-envisioning how to go forward in the struggle to create a radically new – and truly emancipatory – society.<br><br> Bob Avakian is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP), which he has led since its formation in 1975. He emerged as a major political figure throughout the upheavals and rebellions of the period of the '6os: awakening to political life in the period of the emerging discontent and ferment among students in the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley; joining and then becoming a leader of the resistance and protests against the Vietnam War; becoming an early and prominent supporter of the Black Liberation struggle where he was closely associated with the Black Panther Party; then playing a critical leading role in the political and ideological struggles of the New Left Movement of the 1960s, which ultimately led to the founding of the RCP. In the decades since the 1960s BA has given decisive leadership to the theoretical as well as strategic and practical dimensions of the revolution, both in the U.S. and internationally.<br><br> As a revolutionary leader, he embodies a rare combination: someone who has been able to develop scientific theory on a world-class level, while at the same time having a deep understanding of and visceral connection with the most oppressed, and a highly developed ability to "break down" complex theory and make it broadly accessible.<br><br> The scope and content of BA's leadership is reflected in his extensive body of work which includes more than a hundred articles, books, films and audio recordings. BA's collected works are available through The Bob Avakian Institute, www.thebobavakianinstitute.org.<br><br> ***<br><br> The above is excerpted from “Bob Avakian (BA)–Official Biography”, a publication of The Bob Avakian Institute.</div>
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The New Communism
The Science, The Strategy, The Leadership for an Actual Revolution, and a Radically New Society on the Road to Real Emancipation
By Bob AvakianInsight Press
Copyright © 2016 Bob Avakian
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ISBN: 978-0-9977798-0-6All rights reserved.
Contents
Publisher's Note,
Introduction and Orientation,
Foolish Victims of Deceit, and Self-Deceit,
Part I Method and Approach, Communism as a Science,
Materialism vs. Idealism,
Dialectical Materialism,
Through Which Mode of Production,
The Basic Contradictions and Dynamics of Capitalism,
The New Synthesis of Communism,
The Basis for Revolution,
Epistemology and Morality, Objective Truth and Relativist Nonsense,
Self and a "Consumerist" Approach to Ideas,
What Is Your Life Going to Be About? — Raising People's Sights,
Part II Socialism and the Advance to Communism: A Radically Different Way the World Could Be, A Road to Real Emancipation,
The "4 Alls",
Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right,
Socialism as an Economic System and a Political System — And a Transition to Communism,
Internationalism,
Abundance, Revolution, and the Advance to Communism — A Dialectical Materialist Understanding,
The Importance of the "Parachute Point" — Even Now, and Even More With An Actual Revolution,
The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America — Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core,
Emancipators of Humanity,
Part III The Strategic Approach to An Actual Revolution,
One Overall Strategic Approach,
Hastening While Awaiting,
Forces For Revolution,
Separation of the Communist Movement from the Labor Movement, Driving Forces for Revolution,
National Liberation and Proletarian Revolution,
The Strategic Importance of the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women,
The United Front under the Leadership of the Proletariat,
Youth, Students and the Intelligentsia,
Struggling Against Petit Bourgeois Modes of Thinking, While Maintaining the Correct Strategic Orientation,
The "Two Maximizings",
The "5 Stops",
The Two Mainstays,
Returning to "On the Possibility of Revolution",
Internationalism — Revolutionary Defeatism,
Internationalism and an International Dimension,
Internationalism — Bringing Forward Another Way,
Popularizing the Strategy,
Fundamental Orientation,
Part IV The Leadership We Need,
The Decisive Role of Leadership,
A Leading Core of Intellectuals — and the Contradictions Bound Up with This,
Another Kind of "Pyramid",
The Cultural Revolution Within the RCP,
The Need for Communists to Be Communists,
A Fundamentally Antagonistic Relation — and the Crucial Implications of That,
Strengthening the Party — Qualitatively as well as Quantitatively,
Forms of Revolutionary Organization, and the "Ohio",
Statesmen, and Strategic Commanders,
Methods of Leadership, the Science and the "Art" of Leadership,
Working Back from "On the Possibility" — Another Application of "Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core",
Appendix 1: The New Synthesis of Communism: Fundamental Orientation, Method and Approach, and Core Elements — An Outline by Bob Avakian,
Appendix 2: Framework and Guidelines for Study and Discussion,
Notes,
Selected List of Works Cited,
About the Author,
CHAPTER 1
To get into this, let's start with some basic and essential questions: 1) Is the world actually a horror for the masses of humanity? 2) Is revolution, and the final goal of a communist world, the necessary means for radically changing all this, to eliminate oppression and exploitation, and the plundering of the environment? 3) Can such a revolution actually succeed, can a radically different and liberating society and world really be brought into being? Those are three big questions. Now, I imagine that we can all recite the "correct answers" to these questions: yes, yes, and yes. And the substance of these answers — the compelling reasons why those are the answers in fact — all this is brought to life in talks and writings of mine and, in an ongoing way, through the website revcom.us and Revolution newspaper. But here we need to focus on this question: How, with what method, do we arrive at these answers — by religiosity and just repeating dogma, or by some other means? And what approach do we take to understanding things in general? This has everything to do with epistemology — with the theory of knowledge, how people acquire knowledge and how they know whether something is true, whether it has to do with reality or not. In other words, questions such as: What is truth? Is there objective reality — believe it or not, that's a question that is hotly debated in society — is there objective reality and can we come to know it, and how do we go about knowing the truth about reality? We are never going to get where we need to go without a correct, scientific method and approach for knowing the world as it really is, and as it is moving and changing. And we are never going to get where we need to go without challenging not only what people think but, even more fundamentally, how they think — and how they "approach the world."
The science of communism — communism as a science — this is another thing that's thrown around a lot. But this question, communism as a science — whether in fact communism is a science, whether it meets and applies the standards and methods of science, and whether it can, and needs to be, applied to society and to transforming society — all this is sharply contended not only in this society, and the world, overall and in general, but also specifically among many who claim to be seeking some kind of "progressive" or radical change, and even among many who proclaim themselves to be "communists," "Maoists," and so on. All this is spoken to in very important ways in the Interview with Ardea Skybreak, SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION: On the Importance of Science and the Application of Science to Society, the New Synthesis of Communism and the Leadership of Bob Avakian, as well as in the article, the polemic, in Demarcations #4, "Ajith — A Portrait of the Residue of the Past." And those works definitely deserve to be returned to and dug into repeatedly. Now, again, I would expect that, at least at this point, people here would answer "yes" to the question of whether communism is a science that must be applied to changing reality, and in particular the reality of human society — although it does need to be asked, and we should ask ourselves, whether people have actually thought this to be true before now, and have acted consistently in accordance with that. But, rather than directly pursuing that question, right now, let's instead get into some of the basic elements of communism as a science.
To begin with a basic question: what is science? This, too, is spoken to in a very straightforward, substantial and compelling way in the Interview with Ardea Skybreak, emphasizing that science is an evidence-based process (in that Interview, she says many times: you can't just tell me this and tell me that, show me the evidence, I want to see the evidence). Science is an evidence-based process which seeks to understand reality — not just the surface phenomena and what is...
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