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Celebrate the Release of Away With All Gods: Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World
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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.
All the changes that subsequently occurred in Long Bow were not only compressed into a relatively short space of time, they were also warped by the intense pressures of all-out Civil War. Because contradictions arose in especially acute form in Long Bow and problems tended to etch themselves in very sharp relief, Hinton was able to observe the revolutionary process more fully and to understand it more deeply, in all its intensity – both mistakes and advances. The process went deep, remaking not only the material life of the people, but also their consciousness and having a profound effect on the world at the time.
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Away With All Gods: Bob Avakian
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NOW AVAILABLE!
Bringing a unique revolutionary communist voice to the current discourse about god, atheism and morality, Bob Avakian demystifies religious belief and examines how, even in its most progressive interpretations, religion stands in the way of the emancipation of humanity. A thread deeply woven throughout Away With All Gods! is the need to fully rupture with all forms of superstition, and to take up instead a truly scientific approach to understanding and transforming reality.
Whether you believe in god, or are an agnostic or an atheist, Bob Avakian will challenge you with his powerful critique of long-established traditions and his liberating vision of a radically different world.
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Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
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This book is an exciting personal account of the first days of the 1917 October Russian Revolution. Russia is losing World War I and the people are finding themselves in more and more desperate circumstances. Through much struggle, and with the backing and participation of many workers, peasants and soldiers, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, eventually seize power. John Reed captures this great historical moment, recognizing that these events were not just changing Russia, but the world. It’s a really good read.
“With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, ‘Ten Days that Shook the World.’ Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world. Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages. It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Illitch Ulianov)
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Observations on Art and Culture, Science and Philosophy by Bob Avakian
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This provocative collection of reflections and observations by Bob Avakian on art, culture, science and philosophy offers a rare treat. Excerpted from formal talks as well as more informal discussions and conversations, many of the texts in this collection allow the reader to experience firsthand the freewheeling Bob Avakian – in the process of developing his thinking and reenvisioning the communist project on a wide range of controversies, from the dictatorship of the proletariat to discussions of truth, beauty, science and imagination. Insight Press believes this collection will provide the reader with important, fresh, and provocative insights and provoke further creative and critical thinking on art, culture, science, philosophy ... and revolution.
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Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era Edited by: Xueping Zhong, Wang Zheng, and Bai Di
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Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the United States. The authors stories clash with the standard assumptions about the Mao era so often taken for granted today in mainstream books. As one participant writes: “The sharp contrast between the social background against which I grew up and that of the U.S. women could not but call into question the ‘total negation’ of the Mao era.”
The issues explored here are as varied as these women’s lives. Being of different ages, regions and family backgrounds, they delve into what it meant to have grown up as girls and young women. The burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in northeast China. A girl’s struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain. They recount the high and youthful spirit that strongly affected many youngsters during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
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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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Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road To Communism: The Shanghai Textbook (Edited with an Introduction and Afterword by Raymond Lotta)
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Can a socialist planned economy work, and work in a way that leads away from the exploitation, inequality, and greed of capitalism? The defenders of capitalism say no. But Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism, a pathbreaking book about the Maoist experience from 1949 to 1976, in which one quarter of humanity transformed an economy, a society, and themselves through socialist revolution…A visionary work written by Maoist forces during the Cultural Revolution that the present rulers of China have suppressed…A valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion and debate about the nature, purposes, and feasibility of a planned socialist economy…A book for all who dream of and struggle for a new world.
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Emergency Meeting with
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Is the U.S. preparing to attack Iran? What can be done?
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Presentation and Discussion
Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity
Part 1 - What really happened in socialist societies? What would "doing
better" mean and look like, and can you really do better?
Tues. May 27 at 7pm
Presentation and Discussion
Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity
Part 2 - What really happened in socialist societies? What would
"doing better" mean and look like, and can you really do better?
Tues. June 3 at 7pm
Presentation and Discussion
Making Revolution and
Emancipating Humanity
"We need a revolution. Anything else, in the final analysis, is bullshit." What is meaningful revolutionary work today when there is not yet a revolutionary situation? Is spreading revolution and communism a part of that meaningful revolutionary work?
Thurs. June 5 at 7pm
Khalil Bendib, author of Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons by America's Most Wanted Political Cartoonist
Tues. June 10 at 7pm
Presentation and Discussion
Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity
"Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution"
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Discussion of articles in current Revolution newspaper
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