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

Bob Avakian, BAsics 5:7

Internationalism — The Whole World Comes First.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 5:8

“Wars of Empire, Armies of Occupation & Crimes Against Humanity,” by Bob Avakian

A clip from Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution, a speech by Bob Avakian

Internationalism —
Revolutionary Defeatism

Excerpt from: THE NEW COMMUNISM by Bob Avakian

What do I mean by revolutionary defeatism, and why is it so important? Revolutionary defeatism means that you oppose the actions of your own government and ruling class in carrying out their wars, which are wars for empire. It means that you welcome any setbacks they suffer in those wars, because that weakens their oppressive hold over masses of people, here and in the world more generally. Now, we do have to recognize that we have a different situation than back in the day with the war in Vietnam...

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The interests, objectives, and grand designs of the imperialists are not our interests—they are not the interests of the great majority of people in the U.S. nor of the overwhelming majority of people in the world as a whole. And the difficulties the imperialists have gotten themselves into in pursuit of these interests must be seen, and responded to, not from the point of view of the imperialists and their interests, but from the point of view of the great majority of humanity and the basic and urgent need of humanity for a different and better world, for another way.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 3:8

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

Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:3

It is not uncommon to hear these days, from government officials and others, that only 1 percent of the population is in the U.S. military but that this 1 percent is fighting for the freedom of the other 99 percent. The truth, however, is this: That 1 percent, in the military, is in reality fighting for the other 1 percent: the big capitalist-imperialists who run this country—who control the economy, the political system, the military, the media, and the other key institutions—and who dominate large parts of the world, wreaking havoc and causing great suffering for literally billions of people. It is the “freedom” of these capitalist-imperialists—their freedom to exploit, oppress, and plunder—that this 1 percent in the military is actually killing and sometimes dying for.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:5

The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic of North America

Constitution For The New Socialist Republic In North America

Authored by Bob Avakian, and adopted by the Central Committee of the RCP.

Article I. The Central Government.
Section C. Defense and Security. (Page 22)

BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian

a book of quotations and short essays that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation.

“You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics.”

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These imperialists make the Godfather look like Mary Poppins.

—Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:7

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