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Introduction and Orientation
- Foolish Victims of Deceit, and Self-Deceit
Part I: Method and Approach,Communism as a Science
- Materialism vs. Idealism
- Dialectical Materialism
- Through Which Mode of Production
- The Basic Contradictions and Dynamics of Capitalism
- The New Synthesis of Communism
- The Basis for Revolution
- Epistemology and Morality, Objective Truth and Relativist Nonsense
- Self and a “Consumerist” Approach to Ideas
- What Is Your Life Going to Be About?
- Raising People’s Sights
Part II: Socialism and the Advance to Communism, A Radically Different Way the World Could Be, A Road to Real Emancipation
- The “4 Alls”
- Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right
- Socialism as an Economic System and a Political System—And a Transition to Communism
- Internationalism
- Abundance, Revolution, and the Advance to Communism— A Dialectical Materialist Understanding
- The Importance of the “Parachute Point”— Even Now, and Even More With An Actual Revolution
- The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America—Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core
- Emancipators of Humanity
Part III: The Strategic Approach to An Actual Revolution
- One Overall Strategic Approach
- Hastening While Awaiting
- Forces For Revolution
- Separation of the Communist Movement from the Labor Movement, Driving Forces for Revolution
- National Liberation and Proletarian Revolution
- The Strategic Importance of the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
- The United Front under the Leadership of the Proletariat
- Youth, Students and the Intelligentsia
- Struggling Against Petit Bourgeois Modes of Thinking, While Maintaining the Correct Strategic Orientation
- The “Two Maximizings”
- The “5 Stops”
- The Two Mainstays
- Returning to “On the Possibility of Revolution”
- Internationalism—Revolutionary Defeatism
- Internationalism and an International Dimension
- Internationalism—Bringing Forward Another Way
- Popularizing the Strategy
- Fundamental Orientation
Part IV: The Leadership We Need
- The Decisive Role of Leadership
- A Leading Core of Intellectuals—and the Contradictions Bound Up with This
- Another Kind of “Pyramid”
- The Cultural Revolution Within the RCP
- The Need for Communists to Be Communists
- A Fundamentally Antagonistic Relation— and the Crucial Implications of That
- Strengthening the Party— Qualitatively as well as Quantitatively
- Forms of Revolutionary Organization, and the “Ohio”
- Statesmen, and Strategic Commanders
- Methods of Leadership, the Science and the “Art” of Leadership
- Working Back from “On the Possibility”— Another Application of “Solid Core with a Lot of Elasticity on the Basis of the Solid Core”
Appendix 1
- The New Synthesis of Communism: Fundamental Orientation, Method and Approach, and Core Elements —An Outline by Bob Avakian
Appendix 2
- Framework and Guidelines for Study and Discussion
Notes
Selected List of Works Cited
About the Author