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There cannot be a proletarian revolution if there are no class-conscious proletarians striving for that revolution.

— Bob Avakian THE BASIS, THE GOALS, AND THE METHODS OF THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION (2005)

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This is like arguing that, since this country was founded in slavery, it makes no difference if slavery is brought back now!

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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)

The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to serve and protect the system that rules over the people.

Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian (2003)

White supremacy and capitalism—it is not possible to overcome and finally abolish the one without overthrowing and finally abolishing the other.

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The police, the armed forces, the “intelligence agencies,” the courts, and so on—all this represents the dictatorship of the capitalist-imperialist system.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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