| | Sunsara Taylor's Blog: Bob Avakian's Memoir in the San Francisco Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Avakian, 62, a veteran of the Free Speech Movement and other upheavals of the Bay Area in the 1960s, makes an unqualified case for Marxism-Leninism as a fertile thought system that's as alive now as it was when the two revolutionary masterminds created it to answer what they saw as capitalism's fundamental inhumanity. |
 | | Avakian's representatives said the author is eager to have his views more widely discussed but wants to stay out of sight because he fears government harassment. |
 | | Avakian recounts an episode where his old radical mate Eldridge Cleaver of the Panthers lit up a joint and said, "Look brother, we've seen all the revolution we're gonna see." In China, Mao died and what replaced his revolution looked to Avakian like capitalism in disguise. |
| sunsara.blogspot.com /2005/04/bob-avakians-memoir-in-san-francisco.html (1547 words) |