Party Building & Political Leadership (pt. 2/5) ─ PSMLS Audio

Описание: The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the second 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. 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:

The Way Out by Earl Browder (1941)
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...


0:00 Introduction
1:14 Reading/lecture 1
11:07 Going "underground"
12:12 Non-communist orgs
12:31 Mass orgs? (Q&A)
13:54 Reading/lecture 2
26:33 Mass org leadership? (Q&A)
27:40 Emphasizing commonalities? (Q&A)
29:41 Opposing gatekeeping
30:46 Unionized work? (Q&A)
32:04 Increased polarization & internet? (Q&A)
37:16 Reading/lecture 3
44:15 William Z. Foster? (Q&A)
45:03 Capitalizing on opportunities
45:34 "Coming out" as Communist
47:13 Polemics vs. sharp criticism
47:55 More on mass org leadership
48:42 Ideological grounding
49:27 Balancing attention
49:52 Attacking other Parties
50:48 Conclusion