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DESCRIPTION:Presentation and Discussion\n \n50 Years Since the Death of Mao Zedong and 
 the Defeat of Socialism in China\nLearning From and Going Beyond Mao's 
 Great Breakthroughs to the New Communism of Bob Avakian\n \nFifty years 
 ago, on September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died.\nMao led the monumental and 
 tremendously liberating Chinese Revolution of 1949-1976. Mao's greatest 
 contribution was the theory and practice of continuing the revolution under 
 socialism and preventing the restoration of capitalism.  But shortly after 
 Mao's death, new bourgeois forces in China carried out a violent coup—and 
 began the process of restoring capitalism.\n \nFollowing the defeat of 
 socialism in China, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian set out to sum up 
 the first socialist revolutions in Russia and China: their tremendous 
 achievements, but also their problems, some quite serious.\n \nThrough 
 decades of theoretical work and struggle, Bob Avakian has synthesized the 
 new communism. He has drawn from diverse spheres of human understanding and 
 experience. The new communism builds on the achievements of the first stage 
 of communist revolution but is a qualitative leap beyond and also, in 
 important ways, a break with communist theory as it has been previously 
 developed.\n \nAt the heart of the new communism is a thoroughly and 
 consistently scientific approach to reality.\n \nHumanity now has a 
 radically different and far better framework to make the emancipating 
 revolution necessary to end all exploitation and oppression. To create a 
 world in which human beings can truly flourish. That is why being a 
 communist today means being a follower of Bob Avakian.\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/14/18888543.php
SUMMARY:50 Years Since the Death of Mao Zedong and the Defeat of Socialism in China
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2444 Durant Avenue\nBerkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/14/18888543.php
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