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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