Works by Bob Avakian

BAsics
from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian

"You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics."

BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian is a book of quotations and short essays that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation. More...

Away With All Gods!
Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World
by Bob Avakian

"Whether readers enthusiastically embrace or reject its claims and arguments, Away With All Gods! is a book that cannot be ignored."

— Peter McLaren, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California

From Ike to Mao and Beyond:
My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist
A Memoir by Bob Avakian

"Bob Avakian is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism. His voice and witness are indispensable in our efforts to enhance the wretched of the earth. And his powerful story of commitment is timely."

— Cornel West

Preaching from a Pulpit of Bones
(We Need Morality But Not Traditional Morality)
by Bob Avakian

"What is ethical thinking in a time of social fragmentation and imperialist globalization? Bob Avakian convincingly argues that moriality has to be tied to a vision of a good society, a society free of exploitation and every form of domination. Even more does morality have to do with the struggle to create such a society. Avakian points the way toward what some doubt is possible, a materialist ethics. Like Mao's, this is a Marxism that aims at a social analysis that is clear and systematic but not 'cold' – a Marxism with heart."

— Bill Martin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago