General Information

Author/Creator

Avakian, Bob, 1943-

Language

English.

Published

Chicago : Insight Press, 2016.

Physical Description

iv, 424 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Communism > United States.

Revolutions and socialism > United States.

Internationalism.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Bob Avakian.

Content

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 EmancipationThe "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 CoreEmancipators 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 IntelligentsiaStruggling 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."

ISBN

9780983266198

9780997779806

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	335.430973 AVA		Reference	-

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