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Check out an important new talk by Bob Avakian called,

“UNRESOLVED CONTRADICTIONS, DRIVING FORCES FOR REVOLUTION.”  The entire talk is available at:  http://revcom.us/avakian/driving/

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Opening... Points of Orientation 

I. Once More on the Coming Civil War... and Repolarization for Revolution

Breaking Out of a Deadly Dynamic

The Continuing Relevance and Importance of the "Pyramid Analysis"

Once again on the democratic intellectual and the shopkeeper

The appeal of the Christian Fascists in the moral and cultural sphere—and the need to sharply contend in this sphere

Racism and white supremacy, ruling class divisions and repolarization for revolution

Fascist lunacy—and "legitimate politics"

Obama as a major focus

The "best" need "passionate intensity"

Resistance and Building a Movement for Revolution

"The Transfer of Allegiance" of a Section of the Intelligentsia

It Is What It Is—And It Can Be Transformed

II. (Some Observations on) The International Movement

Repolarization Through Struggle

In this dimension too—the "shifting of allegiance" of a section of the intelligentsia

The New Synthesis as the Basis, with the Manifesto Pivotal

Solid Core and Elasticity

Vanguards and individual leaders: real contradictions, and the decisive importance of line

Ideology and Organization, Centralization and Decentralization 

III. The New Synthesis and the Woman Question: The Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution—Further Leaps and Radical Ruptures

The Oppression of Women and the "Two Outmodeds"

The burkha and the thong—hideous embodiments of the degradation of women

Crucial Experience of the 1960s and '70s

The Visceral and the Theoretical

More "postcards of the hanging"

Phony science and bankrupt theories rationalizing oppression

It would have been far better then... and doing even better now

Challenging Traditional Gender Roles and Sexuality

The Communist Movement, Socialist Society and Women's Emancipation—A Critical Overview

The Need and the Basis for a Further Leap and Radical Rupture

Conclusion

 


 



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