The title plays on Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, and turns it toward a different truth: love for the people is the force that drives revolutionaries. In "Socialism and Man in Cuba," Che Guevara wrote that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love, and he insisted it was not sentimentality but the discipline of placing the needs of the people above oneself. Love in this sense is political. It is the willingness to sacrifice, to serve, and to fight for a world in which all people can live with dignity.

That love runs through the revolutionary tradition. Paulo Freire taught that real dialogue with the oppressed is impossible without a deep love for the world and for people. Mao called on revolutionaries to "serve the people." Assata Shakur's call to fight for our freedom moves directly to the demand that we must love each other and support each other. Fred Hampton built the Breakfast for Children program and the Rainbow Coalition on the belief that solidarity among the poor could overcome the divisions capitalism plants between them.

Capitalism produces isolation, competition, and contempt for the poor, and a new world cannot be built with the habits of the old one. Building a culture of love for the people is part of the work of revolution: care, accountability, and mutual aid in our organizations, art that honors the dignity of ordinary people, and relationships strong enough to survive repression and defeat. The love we practice in struggle today is a seed of the communist future we are fighting to win.

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