Bob Avakian on The Oppression of Black People & the Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression
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There is the potential for something of unprecedented beauty to arise out of unspeakable ugliness: Black people playing a crucial role in putting an end, at long last, to this system which has, for so long, not just exploited but dehumanized, terrorized and tormented them in a thousand ways—putting an end to this in the only way it can be done—by fighting to emancipate humanity, to put an end to the long night in which human society has been divided into masters and slaves, and the masses of humanity have been lashed, beaten, raped, slaughtered, shackled and shrouded in ignorance and misery.
Bob Avakian
an illustrated excerpt from the film
“THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO!
In The Name of Humanity,
We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America
A Better World IS Possible
A Talk by Bob Avakian”
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The Oppression of Black People and Other People of Color, by Bob Avakian, an excerpt
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What will it take for masses of white people to break from white supremacy? A Q&A with Bob Avakian
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WATCHING FRUITVALE STATION WITH BOB AVAKIAN
This article was originally published in 2014. We believe that it is particularly timely now to either return to this or, for those who have not read it before, to read it for the first time.
The Revolutionary Potential of the Masses and the Responsibility of the Vanguard
One of the things that I see, something that I haven't lost sight of, is this: I see all the strength of the ruling class, but I also see all the way through all this shit, all the contradictions in society—I actually see a force in this society that, if it were developed into a revolutionary people, actually could have a go at it, could have a real chance of making a revolution, or being the backbone force of a revolution, when the conditions were ripe. I see a force of millions and millions and millions—youth and others—for whom this system is a horror: It isn't going to take some cataclysmic crisis for this system to be fucking over them. The ruling class, ironically, sees them too. It is those who once had but have lost—or those who never had—a revolutionary perspective...it is they who can't see this.
From “Part III. The Strategic Approach to An Actual Revolution,” an excerpt from the section:
National Liberation and Proletarian Revolution
There would be no United States as we now know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth.
Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:1
Authored by Bob Avakian, and adopted by the Central Committee of the RCP.
Article II. Section 3. Minority and Formerly Oppressed Nationalities. (Page 51)
Article III. Rights of the People and the Struggle to Uproot All Exploitation and Oppression. (Page 63)
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