Please enjoy the third 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 2: https://youtu.be/6z_2s5tDt_A
Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk
Part 5: https://youtu.be/TGm63bqqLBA
Literature Used In This Class:
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...
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...
PSMLS Website:
http://peoplesschool.org/contact/
Party of Communists USA Website:
https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/
Timecode Key:
(Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response
0:00 Review
2:25 Splits in the Communist movement
4:20 Fusion line
5:43 Early 1980s
6:47 Gorbachev & Perestroika
9:39 CPUSA split
10:37 21 Preconditions? (Q&A)
14:14 CPUSA 1991? (Q&A)
17:17 "Fusion" Parties? (Q&A)
18:04 Committees of Correspondence? (Q&A)
20:01 Communist Party structure
22:01 CPUSA post-2000
24:04 U.S. Friends of the Soviet People
25:36 Birth of PCUSA
26:16 Workers World & PSL
29:06 Post-2000 purges? (Q&A)
30:34 Conclusion
