• Co-founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party
• Member of the Black Workers Congress, the African Liberation Support Committee, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War
• Supports Lynne Stewart, Jose Padilla, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Leonard Peltier
• Signatory to the Not In Our Name "Statement of Conscience"
• “As long as U.S. imperialism stays in power, the horrors that come from their system will continue.”

Carl Dix is one of the founders of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Maoist vanguard dedicated to promoting civil unrest in the United States. He is also a contributor to Revolution, the RCP’s official newspaper.

Dix was raised in Baltimore, and according to his biography on the RCP website, “he has spent his life building the revolutionary movement deep within the ghettos and barrios.”

In the late 1960s Dix was drafted into the U.S. Army. After his basic and advanced training, he received an order for deployment to Germany. But he filed a "conscientious objector" application and refused the order. For taking this position, Dix was sentenced to two years in Leavenworth Prison. “I wasn't a revolutionary at this point but I did feel that my fight was not in Vietnam, it was here,” Dix would later explain.

Following his release from Leavenworth in the early 1970s, Dix became involved with the Black Workers Congress (an organization of revolutionary black workers), the African Liberation Support Committee (a radical pan-Africanist group), and Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

In the mid-1970s Dix helped establish the RCP, for which he continues to serve as a chief spokesman.

In 1981 Dix was a panel moderator for the “Mass Proletarian War Crimes Tribunal,” an initiative that condemned America’s “imperialism” and "war crimes."

In 1985 Dix was an initiator of the "Draw the Line" statement denouncing Philadelphia police and supporting the African American activist group MOVE, which defied law-enforcement authorities and was responsible for the 1978 death of a police officer.

Dix ran as an “anti-candidate” in the 1988 presidential election, campaigning against “the lie that oppressed people had anything to gain by getting involved in the powers' electoral trap.”

In April 1992, Dix’s call for revolution found violent expression when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, thereby helping to trigger the deadly Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by Dix, titled "It's Right To Rebel," a quote popularized by the late Mao Zedong.

Dix wrote the following in the October 8, 2002 edition of the Nation of Islam publication The Final Call:

"[T]he U.S. government is ... aiming for nothing less than unchallenged control of the world.... The shock and grief of September 11 is being exploited to justify the next phase of war with Iraq ... [and] the tightening U.S. grip on Persian Gulf oil.... On the home front, we see sweeping police powers put in place—wiretapping, suspension of constitutional rights, mass jailing of Arab and Muslim immigrants without charges.... [T]he U.S. government wants us to ... shut up and keep quite while they run riot over the people of the world.... As long as U.S. imperialism stays in power, the horrors that come from their system will continue."

Dix was a key organizer of the October 22, 2002 National Day of Protest exhorting Americans to rise up and "Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation." The document promoting this event stated:

"Since September 11, 2001, the authorities have rapidly imposed a resoundingly repressive atmosphere.... Laws and policies that drastically restrict civil liberties have been put into place.... All over the U.S. people are being killed by law enforcement officers at an escalating rate.... In city after city, cops viciously beat people, confident that they will face no punishment.... Racial profiling, ... has now come back with a vengeance.... [T]housands of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians have been rounded up, detained and disappeared.... Hard-won civil liberties and protections have been stripped away as part of the government's 'war on terrorism.' The USA-PATRIOT Act brings in a new set of repressive laws and restrictions on people ..."

Moreover, this document explicitly defended terrorist-abetters and murderers such as Lynne Stewart, Jose Padilla, Mumia Abu Jamal, and Leonard Peltier -- depicting them as persecuted political prisoners of a repressive American government.

Also in 2002, Dix was a signatory to Not In Our Name’s (NION) "Statement of Conscience," which condemned the Bush administration's "stark new measures of repression" and its "unjust, immoral, illegitimate, [and] openly imperial policy towards the world." NION was initiated by Dix's fellow RCP member C. Clark Kissinger. Other signers of the Statement included Medea Benjamin, Bernadine Dohrn, Michael Eric Dyson, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, Spike Lee, Cynthia McKinney, Bonnie Raitt, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Michael Lerner, Jim McDermott, Susan Sarandon, Edward Said, Pete Seeger, and Howard Zinn.

In a December 2006 blog titled “Killing to Enforce Capitalism and White Supremacy,” Dix wrote: “Why is it that cops brutalize and even kill unarmed people again and again, year in year out? It means maintaining and even enforcing the dominant economic and social relations that exist in society, including the severe inequality that these relations concentrate. It means enforcing American capitalism and its all-too-legitimate child, white supremacy.”

To counter what he views as America’s rampant inequality and institutionalized racism, Dix proposes the following:

“To really get rid of this kind of injustice once and for all, we need a communist revolution, one that could sweep away everything reactionary and build a completely new and different society and world in its place ... to abolish and take humanity beyond capitalism and all systems of exploitation and oppression. In a country like this one, revolution can only be made when there’s a major change in the situation, one where the whole society is engulfed in crisis.”

Dix names Robert Avakian, the RCP’s “Chairman-in-exile,” as the individual best qualified to lead such a revolution to permanently “shatter” the “old order.” Avakian, says Dix, “has developed a vision of the kind of world we can bring into being through making this kind of revolution and how this vision could be realized.”

Dix has frequently called for the freeing of convicted cop-killers Mumia Abu Jamal and Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (aka H. Rap Brown), whom he considers to be "political prisoners." Dix endorsed the “Jericho '98” movement to grant amnesty and freedom to all "political prisoners" in the United States.