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Quotes from The End of a Stage - The Beginning of a New Stage — Bob Avakian

born 1943 United States

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The so-called "demise of communism" is really just revisionism becoming more openly bourgeois.

The End of a Stage - The Beginning of a New Stage (1990)

Fear nothing. Be down for the whole thing.

The End of a Stage - The Beginning of a New Stage (1990)

If you don't have a poetic spirit—or at least a poetic side—it is very dangerous for you to lead a Marxist movement or be the leader of a socialist state.

The End of a Stage - The Beginning of a New Stage (1990)

In taking up the revolutionary struggle against the system and taking up the most revolutionary ideology to guide that struggle, people can and do change themselves. In rising up and overthrowing the system, they begin to make themselves into new people.

The End of a Stage - The Beginning of a New Stage (1990)

We should instill in the victims of this system an attitude of despising this system and all it stands for—of recognizing that this system represents not the "wave of the future" but the dregs of the past—that it is the thing standing in the way of a much brighter future.

The End of a Stage - The Beginning of a New Stage (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bob Avakian (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.