Skip to content

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

— Bob Avakian Writings in 2020–A Momentous Year (2020)

Another quote →

Topics

Slavery

More quotes by Bob Avakian

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)

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

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

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.

WHY WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION AND HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION (2018)

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

WHY WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION AND HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION (2018)

All Bob Avakian quotes →

You may also like

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Abraham Lincoln

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

Abraham Lincoln

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Bob Avakian (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.