Word: avakianã
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Dates: during 2006-2006
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...originally thought this was going to be the quaint memoir of an aging hippie–the lyrical, Dylan-inspired ramblings of someone who longed for a return of those heady, hedonistic, and hopeful days. And Avakian??€™s prose is so repetitive that it seemed as though he had suffered some short-term memory damage...
...then I read Avakian??€™s take on the necessity of violent revolution and realized that this guy wasn’t your average graying nostalgic hippie new-ageist. He is a full-on communist ideologue...
...Avakian??€™s dogmatism prevents him from questioning the decency of a movement that killed millions and suppressed an entire nation’s cultural history...
...what is truly disturbing about Avakian??€™s philosophy was his advocacy of violence and his ability to whitewash violence enacted by his heroes, Mao and Stalin...
...Indeed, Avakian??€™s long-term memory seems to be gone as well. The 40 million murdered by Stalin have slipped his mind entirely...