Please enjoy this PSMLS class on various introductory Marxist texts. The majority of the literature mentioned in this episode is linked here in the description. Happy reading comrades!
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Literature Used In This Class:
Socialism: Utopian & Scientific by Friedrich Engels (ch. 3) (1880)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
The State & Revolution by V.I. Lenin (ch. 1) (1917)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels (ch. 3 ) (1848)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karl-...
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
Recommended Literature:
Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...
Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...
http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html
The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936)
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...
Marxism & Revisionism by V.I. Lenin (1908)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin (1915)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
Speeches on the American Communist Party by J.V. Stalin (1929)
http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/docum...
Ending Song:
USSR National Anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jl...
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
0:12 State and Revolution reading
2:44 Lenin and MLK
4:06 Marxsim whitewashed
4:45 What is Kautskyism? (Q&A)
7:37 Lenin's audience? (Q&A)
8:19 Marxsim whitewashed cont.
9:14 Chauvansim & fascism? (Q&A)
10:25 Manifesto reading
12:16 Working class parties
13:07 Manifesto background
13:37 Universal reformer(s)? (Q&A)
14:35 Sectarianism? (Q&A)
17:59 Manifesto reading cont.
20:39 The middle class
21:42 Ferdinand Lassalle
22:37 Reactionary utopian socialism
24:10 Bourgeois "socialism"
24:49 Proletariat & unions? (Q&A)
27:35 Anarchists & industrialization? (Q&A)
29:19 Manifesto reading cont.
32:18 Congressional "progressives"
33:06 Dulled revolutionary potential
33:32 CPUSA = social democrats
34:55 Liberal pitfalls
35:34 Bourgeois "socialism" cont.
36:18 Engels reading
40:10 Utopian socialism & white supremacy
40:56 Utopianism & idealism
41:24 Book recommendations
48:02 Leftist trap organizations? (Q&A)
50:29 1848 revolutions
51:30 Changing landscape
52:45 Not scaring people? (Q&A)
56:46 Concluding remarks
59:26 Ending
