Please enjoy the second part of a five-part PSMLS series covering the history of the American Communist Movement, with the obvious international context necessary to comprehend its development. You probably know a lot about the C.P.S.U., but how much do you know about American Communist history? We hope you learn something new!
Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information
Watch the Series:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/qt-UtQrvJmU
Part 3: https://youtu.be/0B7NBjMz9ms
Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk
Part 5: https://youtu.be/TGm63bqqLBA
No Literature Used In This Class
Recommended Literature:
History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...
History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952)
http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/
The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...
Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932)
http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/...
Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...
Guidelines on the Organizational Structure of Communist Parties, on the Methods and Content of their Work by the Third Congress of the Communist International (1921)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/third...
PSMLS Website:
http://peoplesschool.org/contact/
Party of Communists USA Website:
https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/
Timecode Key:
(Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Communist Youth Groups
4:38 Old vs. New Left
5:59 Robert F. Williams
7:13 Sino-Soviet Split? (Q&A)
9:10 Chicago 7 & SDS? (Q&A)
12:37 Changes in the U.S.A.
14:12 More Old vs. New Left
18:01 SDS and Marxism
22:38 New Left & the U.S.S.R.
24:58 SDS & Weather Underground? (Q&A)
26:58 Superstructure vs. Base? (Q&A)
28:47 Dialectics & the New Left
30:40 SDS & Occupy Wall St.? (Q&A)
32:02 Historical Context
32:35 SDS experience
32:59 SDS & the Draft
33:14 More Dialectics & the New Left
33:32 Staten Island Closure? (Q&A)
34:14 Chicano movement
34:57 Conclusion
