Conquer the World?

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Now! Finally! For the first time Online!

Conquer the World? The International Proletariat Must and Will
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA
(originally printed in Revolution magazine #50, 1982)

The historic work by Bob Avakian on the historic experience of Socialism, on internationalism, and on proletarian revolution as a world process.

If you want a new liberated world, if you want a scientific communist approach to reality, if you want a new wave of revolutionary thought and action -- don't miss this pathbreaking work

check it out here: rwor.org/bob_avakian/conquerworld/conquerworld_p1.htm

Recently, when talking about Conquer the World, its content and impact, Bob Avakian said:

"From the time of Conquer the World I have been bringing forward an epistemological rupture with a lot of the history of the International Communist Movement, including China and the GPCR [Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution], which had this thing arguing that there is such a thing as proletarian truth and bourgeois truth—this was in a major circular put out by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. In some polemics we wrote around the coup in China, we uncritically echoed this. Later on, we criticized ourselves for that.

"This rupture actually began with CTW . CTW was an epistemological break—we have to go for the truth, rather than hiding things, etc.—a whole approach of interrogating our whole history. That’s why it was taken as a breath of fresh air by some, while other people hated it, saying it reduced the history of the international communist movement and our banner of communism to a "tattered flag"—which was not the point at all."
from "Discussion with Comrades on Epistemology-
On Knowing and Changing the World" rwor.org/a/1262/avakian-epistemology.htm

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here is another blurb:

Bob Avakian's controversial work "Conquer the World" is now online (for the first time).

First published in 1982, it was considered shocking by some, and liberating by others. It is a sweeping appraisal of the experience of the international communist movement and the world process of proletarian revolution.

And it is well known for its rather sharp critique of previous
communist leaders (including Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao) -- in ways that some people thought was impermissible, and other thought was refreshingly iconoclastic and scientific.

REcently, speaking of CTW, Bob Avakian wrote of it representing an "epistemological break" with much of the previous history and theory of the international communist movement -- especially on the topic of "political truths." (In other words, no more bullshit, lets dig into the good and the bad, and not wrap our own past or present in gauzy
self-deception and even deceit -- in the interests of short term gains.) We can only get where we are going -- to classless communist society -- if we look at the world as it is, if we have a truly scientific worldview, and a true obsession with truth. And this work applies that fearless approach to some of the most controversial questions of communism.

CTW is also famous for serious trying to rethink the proletarian revolution as a world process -- raising approaches to internationalism that broke with much of the previous communist movement in ways that still set some people's hairs on end.

It is available here:
rwor.org/bob_avakian/conquerworld/conquerworld_p1.htm

(or at least its opening half, Part 1, is -- with a promise of more to follow.)