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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.

— 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!

Writings in 2020–A Momentous Year (2020)

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.

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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)

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