"Hope For Humanity On A Scientific Basis" - New from Bob Avakian

 From revcom.us:

Hope For Humanity On A Scientific Basis Breaking with Individualism, Parasitism and American Chauvinism   Bob Avakian Author of The New Communism Prepublication copy November 2019 This is an important new work by Bob Avakian, from which the excerpt "Individualism, BEB and the Illusion of 'Painless Progress,'" which has been posted on this site since the summer of 2019, has been drawn. CONTENTS                               No Hope—vs. No Permanent Necessity The Problem of Individualism Virulent Individualism and Oblivious Individualism Individualism, BEB and the Illusion of “Painless Progress” Parasitism, American Chauvinism, and Individualism Identity Politics and Individualism Individualism and “Indifference” Particular Interests and General Interests—Differing Class Interests and the Highest Interests of Humanity Contrasting the Communist with the Capitalist Viewpoint and Approach to Individualism and Individuality Differing Views on the Meaning of Life, and Death:  What Is Worth Living and Dying For? Breaking Free of Parasitic Individualism No Permanent Necessity—and Hope, on a Scientific Basis: A Radically Different and Far Better World Really Is Possible, But It Must Be Fought For! Notes   Lack of real hope for a better life in this world is a heavy chain weighing down, suffocating and deeply scarring the masses of humanity, including the youth who are concentrated in the ghettos and barrios of this country as well as its overflowing torture chamber prisons. And the extreme individualism promoted throughout this society, the obsessive focus on “the self,” has reinforced the heavy lid on the sights of people, obscuring their ability to recognize the possibility of a radically different and better world, beyond the narrow and confining limits of this system, with all its very real horrors. These are the major questions I am going to be speaking to here. Read this new work HERE.