Grasp Revolution, Promote Production: Questions of Outlook and Method, Some Points on the New Situation

by Bob Avakian

Excerpts from a talk given in 2002. This has been edited and footnotes added for publication here.

• The New Situation, The Need for Dynamic Resistance
• Introduction
• Marxism “Embraces but Does Not Replace”
• We Can’t Know Everything--So We Should Be Good at Learning
• Seizing Power and Exercising Power--The Relation Between the Vanguard and the Masses
• Valuing Dissent...Why?
• Accepting Reality as It Is...and Transforming It
• Holding Firmly to Basic Principles--But Not Being Bound by Convention or Superstition
• On Methods of Leadership
• There Is No Religious Basis, There Is a Powerful, Material Basis, for Communism
• Stopping the Juggernaut and Making Revolution

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