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

— Bob Avakian The End of a Stage - The Beginning of a New Stage (1990)

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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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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)

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For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Bertrand Russell Unarmed Victory (1963)

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

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