Peace and Freedom Party Politicians - Leonard Peltier, Sonia Johnson, Bob Avakian, Howie Hawkins, Dick Gregory, Rodolfo Gonzales, Jerry Rubin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Leonard Peltier, Sonia Johnson, Bob Avakian, Howie Hawkins, Dick Gregory, Rodolfo Gonzales, Jerry Rubin, Herbert Aptheker, Eldridge Cleaver, Stewart Alexander, Walt Crowley, Elizabeth Martinez, Gloria La Riva, Eric Garris, Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd, Janice Jordan, Herbert Lewin, Marsha Feinland, Elizabeth Cervantes Barron, Maureen Smith. 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 published writings on Marxism and Maoism for over 35 years. He has described his body of theoretical work and everything he does as head of the RCP is 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." Avakian writes for the newspaper of the RCP, Revolution. 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." 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 Union and the People's Republic of China. In his body of work Avakian attempts to excavate, for critical evaluation, not only the practice of these revolutions, but also many of the fundamental theoretical concepts, from Marx, Lenin and Mao, underlying ...