Please enjoy the fifth and final 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 3: https://youtu.be/0B7NBjMz9ms
Part 4: https://youtu.be/rC47mjz5Xqk
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...
Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran & Thomas Kenny (2010)
https://valleysunderground.files.word...
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
0:49 Civil rights period
2:00 Youth radicalization
2:41 "New left"
5:15 70s & the peasantry
5:51 American peasant class? (Q&A)
8:31 Lumpenproletariat? (Q&A)
10:05 Sino-Soviet split's impact? (Q&A)
12:27 Stalin as an excuse for Mao
16:23 More lumpenproletariat? (Q&A)
16:50 Role of Vietnam? (Q&A)
22:23 Even more lumpenproletariat? (Q&A)
22:58 Trade-unionism? (Q&A)
24:57 U.S.S.R. experiences? (Q&A)
28:53 Khrushchev & Brezhnev? (Q&A)
32:52 Socialism Betrayed
33:32 Leadership & trust
33:57 Ending
