The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a class over the text "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky," written in after the Great October Socialist Revolution in 1918. This work of Lenin's meticulously dissects the historical and ideological bankruptcy of social democracy and right-opportunism. We hope you learn something new!
Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information
Literature Used In This Class:
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky by V.I. Lenin (1918)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Recommended Literature:
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...
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...
Theory as a Guide to Action by Earl Browder (1939)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...
The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma by Aleksei Badayev (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bada...
Imperialism and the Split in Socialism by V.I. Lenin (1916)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
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
3:49 Reading 1
9:15 Eduard Bernstein? (Q&A)
10:32 Lenin's birthday
11:10 Lenin goes nuclear
11:44 Differences in the European Labor Movement
12:45 De-Stalinization
16:35 "Matured socialism?" (Q&A)
19:03 Left-opportunists
19:25 DotP & the Paris Commune
20:11 Reading 2
24:35 Combatting right-opportunism? (Q&A)
25:50 Dictatorship & democracy
30:21 Kautsky's fate? (Q&A)
31:14 Reading 3
36:04 "Left" anti-communists
37:28 Coalitions? (Q&A)
38:53 What is to Done?
39:03 Class democracy
40:46 Peaceful transition? (Q&A)
41:47 Warning against ultra-"leftists"
42:17 Reading 4
53:07 History of the 3 Internationals
53:52 Gus Hall books
54:22 Ebert & Scheidemann
55:09 More book recommendations
55:39 Left & right-opportunism? (Q&A)
57:13 CPUSA opportunism
57:45 State & Revolution
58:37 Right-opportunist emergence
59:07 Idealist democracy
59:32 More reading recommendations
1:00:01 Longuet & red diaper babies
1:01:36 More CPUSA opportunism
1:03:31 Langston Hughes poem
1:04:07 More on DotP
1:04:57 Concluding remarks & ending
