Bob Avakian

Bob Avakian ( born March 7, 1943 in Washington DC) is Chairman and theoretician of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP ), the largest Maoist group in the United States.

Life

Avakian grandparents immigrated from Armenia. Avakian was born in Washington and grew up in Berkeley. There he attended high school and the University of California. He has been in the movement for freedom of speech ( Free Speech Movement or FSM) politicized and was initially a leader of the Revolutionary Union ( Revolutionary Confederation). In 1975, Avakian was a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, as well as C. Clark Kissinger and Carl Dix, and has since been its chairman.

Work

He writes for the newspaper his party, " Revolution ," and has written several books:

• Away with All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World, 2008.
• Observations on Art, Culture, Science, and Philosophy, 2006.
• Marxism and the Call of the Future: Conversations on Ethics, History, and Politics, 2006, written by Bill Martin.
• From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, 2006.
• Preaching from a Pulpit of Bones, 1999.
• Phony Communism is Dead ... Long Live Real Communism! , 1992.
• Could We Really Win? , 1991.
• Reflections, Sketches, and Provocations: Essays and Commentary, 1981-1987 ', 1990.
• Democracy: Can not We Do Better Than That, 1986.
• Bullets: From the Writings, Speeches, and Interviews of Bob Avakian, 1985.
• A Horrible End, or an End to the Horror? , 1984.
• For a Harvest of Dragons, 1983.
• Mao Tsetung 's Immortal Contributions, 1979.