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Revolution and Communism: A Foundation and Strategic Orientation
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This pamphlet emphatically challenges and refutes the message that revolution is impossible and communism unworkable and not desirable. In fact, revolution and communism are exactly what humanity needs! This pamphlet speaks to why communist revolution is not only necessary, but possible—and how it could be made. It concentrates the strategic foundation and scaffolding for advancing on the road of revolution and communism, and winning growing numbers of the masses to that cause, through hard struggle (both against the enemy, but also including sharp ideological struggle with the masses) and with all the twists and turns that will inevitably be encountered.
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, by William Hinton
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Based on extensive notes gathered in 1948, William Hinton reveals something of the essence of the great anti-imperialist, anti-feudal revolution which transformed China. For China’s hundreds of millions of landless and land-poor peasants this not only meant standing up and throwing off the landlord yoke, gain land, stock, and houses, but to end superstition, to study science, learn to read, and cease considering women as chattels. It meant doing away with village magistrates and replacing them with elected councils. Fanshen is the story of how the peasants of Long Bow Village, China built a new world.
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Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution by Lincoln Cushing and Ann Tompkins
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Literally thousands of powerful social and political posters were created by professional and non-professional artists during the revolutionary upsurge of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. These brilliantly colorful images reflect and celebrate the struggle to transform economy, social institutions, culture, and values and are striking in their depiction of the masses as the makers of history. They were displayed in homes and public spaces across the country and were inspirational to a generation of radicals and revolutionaries around the world. Chinese Posters collects 170 of these posters and offers background on their social and political context and production.
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The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution
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This book sets the record straight. It deeply critiques the mainstream accounts of the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution showing the many ways that that people in China, including the rural poor women and the urban working class, benefited in Maoist China including basic health care, culture and education. Gao shows how these policies are being reversed today.
"A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang's recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed."
--Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff
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Constitutionof the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
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The Constitution of the RCP lays out the mission and vision of a new stage of communist revolution, informed by Bob Avakian’s new synthesis of communist theory. The constitution puts forward this vision in a very accessible way, as well as laying out the principles of organization and the theoretical foundation of the Party. This includes an important appendix on communist theory as a scientific and revolutionary theory.
This constitution serves as a bold declaration that there is indeed a party, in the belly of the imperialist U.S., with the determination and strategic analysis to make a revolution. . . and the vision, method and understanding of society and history to ensure that it is a revolution worth making.
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"We Need More of This..." T-Shirt
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Front with picture of Black athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the Black power salute at the 1968 Olympics with caption, "We need more of this". Back has picture of of football player pointing to the sky after scoring a touchdown, with caption, "Not this!"
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
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Reproduction of the famous "Little Red Book" read by hundreds of millions during the Cultural Revolution and by revolutionary minded people everywhere. Now banned in China by the capitalist rulers who usurped power after Mao's death. The Red Book was initially developed to aid political education in the Red Army. It contains excerpts from Mao's writings that powerfully and concisely bring out essentials points of Maoism, as developed by Mao in leading 20 years of peoples war and over 25 years of socialist construction. Chapters include The Communist Party, Classes and Class Struggle, The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, War and Peace, The Mass Line, Serving the People, Investigation and Study, Criticism and Self-Criticism, Youth, Culture and Art and more. (Paper with red plastic cover)
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Phony Communism Is Dead...Long Live Real Communism by Bob Avakian
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Bob Avakian has written a bold and challenging book that cuts right to the debate of our times. Is capitalism the best of all possible worlds? Avakian contrasts the brutal realities of the free market to the claims of its defenders. Has communism proven to be a disasterous nightmare? Avakian refutes the charges that socialist economies are unworkable and that communism supresses individuality and freedom. But he probes deeper, into the real history and lessons of the revolution, especially the Maoist Cultural Revolution. Can revolutions survive in a hostile world? How can they avoid going sour? And is it really possible to move society beyond private gain and money relations? Bob Avakian shows that communism is both visionary and practical. If you want to know what real communism is about, and if you wonder whether society has to be run as a dog-eat-dog enterprise, then you will find this book as tmely as it is provacative. Second edition includes appendix with the essay, "Democracy: More Than Ever We Can and Must Do Better Than That."
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Upcoming events at Revolution Books
Tues., Oct. 7 at 7:00 pm
Discussion of Revolution newspaper broadsheet: The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of this System and the Revolution We Need
Weds., Oct. 8 at 7:00 pm
A talk by Sunsara Taylor on Bob Avakian’s book Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World
NOTE LOCATION: UC Berkeley
Valley Life Sciences Building, Room 2060
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