Bob Avakian Quotes

United States, Revolutionary
March 7, 1943

Robert Bruce "Bob" Avakian is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP), leading the organization since 1979. Coming out of the New Left, Avakian is the author of several books and has developed a theoretical framework rooted in Maoism, calling it 'the New Communism.

Also known as Communist

The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method.

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American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives.

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- Important
- American Lives

No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.

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- Born
- Fate
- Generation
The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

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If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

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- Democrats
- Mae