The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the third part of a five-part series covering the pamphlet "Party Building and Political Leadership" by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. This specific episode pulls from Alex Bittlemans' contribution to the pamphlet. 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...
History of the Communist Party USA by William Z. Foster (1952)
https://archive.org/details/history-o...
Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/fost...
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
0:52 Reading/lecture 1
8:30 Written by Bittleman
8:39 Party & mass movements? (Q&A)
9:14 Revolutionary progress? (Q&A)
11:51 Repeating past success? (Q&A)
16:15 Revolution in the '30s? (Q&A)
17:55 Socialism is a Science
18:21 Former Communist influence
20:53 Pyongyang declaration? (Q&A)
23:39 Reading/lecture 2
36:43 Develop Communists
37:27 Increase ideological maturity
38:24 Party & the mass movement
38:48 Business Plot
39:13 Henry Wallace? (Q&A)
39:32 Ending
