Please enjoy a rough historical outline for the lineage of the Party of Communists USA. Communist roots run deep, and it's important for us to be aware of where we've been so we can better understand where we're going.
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Literature Used In This Class:
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Recommended Literature:
The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...
Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...
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...
History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...
History of the Communist Party of the United States by William Z. Foster (1952)
http://williamzfoster.blogspot.com/
Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932)
http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/...
PSMLS Website:
http://peoplesschool.org/contact/
Party of Communists USA Website:
https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/
Timecode Key:
(Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response
0:00 Intro
0:50 PCUSA historical outline
4:36 "ML" Communist Parties?
5:55 U.S. propaganda machine
6:22 "ML" Parties still anti-Soviet? (Q&A)
9:04 Comintern of a New Type? (Q&A)
14:00 More PCUSA historical outline
17:12 Communist splits
18:50 Perestroika & the black market
21:09 Role of Khrushchev
23:37 Learning from mistakes
24:15 Opportunists & revisionists in power? (Q&A)
27:14 The house that Stalin built
28:24 Ideological decay
29:29 China & Bukharin
31:37 Conclusion
