Key Works of Bob Avakian and the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, on the First Stage of the Communist Revolution

October 2, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

This October is the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia, one of the “milestones” of the first stage of communist revolution—with the other two milestones being the 1871 Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution in China led by Mao Zedong that began in 1966. The first stage of communist revolution came to an end with the 1976 capitalist coup that defeated the revolution in China.

In the period after the coup in China—at a time of an all-out offensive of lies and slanders against communism by ruling class voices and much confusion and disorientation in the international communist movement—Bob Avakian (BA) brought scientific clarity to this crucial juncture and began to open up and chart the path to go forward. He began digging deeply into the experience of not only the revolution in China but of the whole first stage of communist revolution.

As Raymond Lotta pointed out in 2014: “Essentially, BA begins this process of deep exploration and critical examination of the first stage of communist revolution, indeed of the whole communist project, with the work Conquer the World? The International Proletariat Must and Will, which was written in 1981. From here he continued to probe and make new discoveries. And in the more than three decades since the counter-revolution in China, Bob Avakian developed and brought forward a new synthesis of communism.

“And he has been doing this, I might add, against the backdrop of the bourgeoisie’s relentless ideological assault on communism.”

The following are some key works of Bob Avakian and the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, which he leads, on the first stage of communist revolution.

Conquer the World? The International Proletariat Must and Will

The End of a Stage—The Beginning of a New Stage

Unresolved Contradictions, Driving Forces for Revolution, Part 2 and Part 3

COMMUNISM—THE BEGINNING OF A NEW STAGE: A Manifesto from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

“You Don’t Know What You Think You ‘Know’ About... The Communist Revolution and the REAL Path to Emancipation: Its History and Our Future,” An Interview with Raymond Lotta, Revolution #323, November 24, 2013

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