Armenian Communists - Bob Avakian, Hovhannes Bagramyan, Stepan Shahumyan, Missak Manouchian, Aram Khachaturian, Yeghishe Charents, Armen Ohanian (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Bob Avakian, Hovhannes Bagramyan, Stepan Shahumyan, Missak Manouchian, Aram Khachaturian, Yeghishe Charents, Armen Ohanian, Sergei Galadzhev, Sergei Khudyakov, Marietta Shaginyan, Varlam Avanesov, Mariam Vardanian, Aram Gasparovich Sarkisyan, Ruben Tovmasyan. Excerpt: Bob Avakian (born on March 7, 1943) is Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP), which he has led since its formation in 1975. He is a veteran of the Free Speech Movement and the Left of the 1960s and early 1970s, and was closely associated with the Black Panther Party. He has continually published writings on Marxism for over 35 years and is viewed by many inside and outside the Communist movement as the foremost Maoist revolutionary in the U.S. He has described his body of theoretical work and everything he does as a communist leader as focused on "developing a scientific understanding of the world and providing leadership in radically transforming it toward the goal of revolution and the final aim of communism." He defines the basic aims of the communist revolution as seeking "to make those two radical ruptures of which Marx and Engels spoke: the radical rupture with traditional property relations and with traditional ideas. It seeks not to replace one form of exploitation with another but to do away with all forms of exploitation and indeed ultimately to eliminate all class distinctions." There is much contention even among communists around Avakian's development of what he has defined as a "new synthesis" what he describes as a recasting of the theoretical framework for carrying forward communist revolution; a re-envisioning of revolution and communism. Over the past 30 years, Avakian has critically examined what he views as the "first stage of the communist revolution" as concentrated in the revolutionary societies in the Soviet ...