Please enjoy the first of a two-part series over the Party pamphlet "Organization and Structure of the Communist Party." This pamphlet outlines the foundational principles of how a Leninist Bolshevik party is structured and organized. Marxist-Leninists understand that real Communists are only those actively working in a Leninist Party and engaging in Party work on behalf of the working class.
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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)
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Recommended Literature:
The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)
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Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
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History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...
Why Communism? by Moissaye J. Olgin (1933)
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History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952)
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Timecode Key:
(Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Reading 1
2:55 Socialism w/ American characteristics? (Q&A)
8:15 Anti-vanguard groups? (Q&A)
10:10 Reading 2
11:32 In touch with the masses? (Q&A)
13:23 "Tailing" the masses
14:29 Carde & leadership
15:10 Stalin on the CPUSA
16:03 "Tailin the masses cont.
16:49 Organic nature of the Party? (Q&A)
18:05 Vanguardism in the west
19:25 Reading 3
21:44 "Power-hungry" Communists
24:12 Bureaucratic dualism
24:50 Constant common struggle
25:19 More dualism
25:49 Leninist Parties vs. Bourgeois Parties
26:18 Criticisms of bureaucracy? (Q&A)
30:28 Reading 4
31:57 Connecting Party organs w/ members (Q&A)
33:54 Establishing an identity
35:11 Formal democracy? (Q&A)
37:39 More Party & the masses
40:43 Bureaucracy & the state
41:27 Anarchism: "individualist socialism"
45:36 Reading 5
48:27 Build the Party
49:11 Contradictions under socialism
49:36 Capitalist hegemony
50:02 Modern applicability?
51:09 National vs. local work? (Q&A)
51:59 State of American Communist movement? (Q&A)
54:38 Democratic centralism
55:52 Things haven't changed that much
56:16 Discipline
57:17 Party before & after the revolution? (Q&A)
58:14 More on discipline
58:42 Party work's importance
59:09 Strengthen rank-and-file
59:21 On "book worship"
1:01:49 Communism vs. fascism? (Q&A)
1:04:07 Even more dualism
1:05:12 William Z. Foster
1:05:53 Watch our "Factionalism" class
1:06:37 Facebook individualism
1:07:04 Why join PCUSA?
1:08:47 PCUSA is you
1:09:07 Why McCarthyism happened
1:10:25 Ending
