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Revolutionary Communist Party’s Avakian reflects on Obama victory

December 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

The Revolutionary Communist Party USA has released correspondence from Chairman Bob Avakian regarding Barack Obama’s election to the presidency.

Avakian writes in part that “while tactically and in the short run, the election of Obama will create (and no doubt already is creating) some new difficulties for us — and this is likely to be especially so among Black people, many of whom are not surprisingly swallowing down the ‘Obama-aid’…in an overall and strategic sense there are important favorable factors in all this — provided that we continue to be grounded in and consistently apply our scientific communist outlook, method and approach.”

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6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Libertarian Joseph // Dec 8, 2008 at 11:16 am

    I now understand lefties. They [even the "anarchist" kind] want high taxes and high regulation on businesses, not because they want a prosperous economy, but because they want to end capitalism. They want everyone to help eachother and never look after ther own interests, universal tolerance, sharing & caring lol. unfortunately, that’s fantasyland, bad economic policies, just destroys everyone’s life.

    I’m glad I understand now though

  • 2 Libertarian Joseph // Dec 8, 2008 at 11:21 am

    ohhh the ones I’ve described are the ones that understand free market economy but just don’t like it. The communists that don’t understand free market ecnonomics [most of them] are just stupid.

  • 3 Steven R Linnabary // Dec 8, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    And we call them democrats.

    Pacem en Terris
    Steve

  • 4 johnlowell // Dec 8, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    “They want everyone to help eachother and never look after ther own interests, universal tolerance, sharing & caring lol.”

    If these folks are really communists, they don’t care one wit about everyone helping each other. They are solely concerned with having power. It was that way throughout the 20th century wherever communism raised its ugly head and I doubt if anything has changed now that we’re in the 21st. Leninist Communism has the unique distinction of being the first ideology in history to turn government into an instrument of terror against the very people it purported to serve. The Communist Party everywhere has served only itself and it has done that especially poorly.

  • 5 Jeremy Young // Dec 8, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Like God in the 1970′s, Bob Avakian is dead. Seriously, he doesn’t seem to exist.

  • 6 Daniel // Sep 6, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Obama is a fabian socialist, which is a form of socialism less radical than maoism. But there are poeple who believe that Obama have points of view near to maoism.

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