Please enjoy the second and final part of a two-part PSMLS series on comrade Joseph Stalin's outstanding 1937 publication titled Mastering Bolshevism. This pamphlet goes into detail about how to build and strengthen Party cadre. It is a breath of fresh air when compared to the infectious individualism of our time.
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Literature Used In This Class:
Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...
http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html
Recommended Literature:
Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...
Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
Felix Dzerzhinsky: A Biography (several authors) (1988)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/rozal...
Concerning Questions of Agrarian Policy in the U.S.S.R. by J.V. Stalin
https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
Concerning the Policy of Eliminating of the Kulaks as a Class by J.V. Stalin
https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...
Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens (1994)
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpre...
Blood Lies by Grover Furr (2014)
http://www.readmarxeveryday.org/blood...
The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels (1848)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karl-...
Ending Song:
Soviet Internationale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8EMx...
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
0:45 Reading 1
3:59 Role of Yeltsin
4:27 Excessive purges? (Q&A)
5:54 Stalin & "bureaucracy"
7:08 When to purge? (Q&A)
8:46 Role of Trotskyites? (Q&A)
10:21 Reading 2
14:06 Expulsion
15:19 Debunking Stalin myths
17:10 Striking a balance
17:49 Combatting opportunism
18:29 Expulsion for "passivity"? (Q&A)
19:53 Returning to the Party? (Q&A)
20:46 More Stalin myths
23:39 Reading 3
27:08 "Knowing enough"
29:16 Party corrections? (Q&A)
31:37 Bukharin? (Q&A)
33:55 Being more attentive? (Q&A)
35:51 Stakhanovites? (Q&A)
38:27 PCUSA vs. the rest
41:14 Reading 4
43:41 Crit & self-crit
44:52 PCUSA origins
47:03 Reading 5
49:01 Collective & state farms
50:15 "Dizzy with success"
51:11 Reading 6
55:07 CPC self-crit
56:16 Scum Mussolini
56:29 "Cadre" term? (Q&A)
56:50 Winds of history
57:32 Vulgarizing self-crit? (Q&A)
1:00:04 Individualist baggage
1:01:00 Stopping vulgarization
1:05:18 Foster reading
1:07:52 Felix Dzerzhinsky
1:09:37 Joined via YouTube channel
1:10:17 Stalin's importance
1:11:32 Communist love
1:11:58 Stalin's legacy
1:18:57 Communist pride
1:19:11 Passion & compassion
1:19:59 Capitalist projection
1:20:28 Concluding remarks
1:23:12 Ending
