The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the first part of a five-part series covering the work by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. Building the Party is an essential component of the Communist movement. This text should prove useful to anyone looking to help build the Communist movement.
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Literature Used In This Class:
Party Building and Political Leadership by William Z. Foster, James Ford, Alex Bittleman, and Charles Krumbein (1937)
https://archive.org/details/PartyBuil...
Recommended Literature:
Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...
Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...
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...
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The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...
History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...
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
1:16 Reading/lecture 1
12:39 Education & Org. Depts.
13:03 The "Jimmy Higgins" work
14:38 Mass org. building? (Q&A)
15:39 CPUSA & FDR? (Q&A)
18:37 National Industrial Recovery Act
19:18 Eagle from the NIRA
20:04 Anti-Communist politicians? (Q&A)
21:41 Reading/lecture 2
29:16 Importance of Party education
29:43 New member involvement
30:20 Recruiting non-Communists? (Q&A)
31:33 Reading/lecture 3
34:55 Red diaper babies
36:09 Communists & perception of violence
37:20 Communist childhood
38:44 Israeli & Jewish Communists
40:28 More red diaper babies
41:05 Becoming too insular? (Q&A)
42:38 Implementing Communist subculture? (Q&A)
43:10 Young pioneers
43:33 Recap & more red diaper babies? (Q&A)
44:19 Ending
