Book Club Commune

In this chapter, Haywood moves back to Chicago to get out of the bureaucracy of CPUSA headquarters and to do on the ground organizing in the Southside.

In this episode, we talk more about how Bernstein thinks capitalism will adapt it's way out of crises (spoiler: it can't) and how he believes labor reform by bourgeois governments is actually socialism. Basically, Bernstein is just a modern day social democrat. a literal bernie bro. The intro music is "Varshavianka (The Warsawian)", preformed by Maredith Placencia with Khosrean State Orchestra.

In this episode, Haywood goes to the 8th convention of the CPUSA, and outlines the dangers and the need to fight against petty bourgeois nationalism.

CONTENT WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC MENTIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER. In this episode, Haywood travels to the deep south to do some organizing and to see the Black Belt Thesis in action. Oh, and some Black sharecroppers get guns and shoot at come cops.

In a surprise twist, I'm started a second book in addition to Black Bolshevik, I am reading "Reform or Revolution" by Rosa Luxemburg. This is a text that I am reading for my organization's reading group, but since it's longer than one article, it wouldn't make sense to make it a Mini Commune like I did for Lenin's "The Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism", so instead I decided to ruin the linear podcast feed and dedicate a few episodes to Rosa. The intro music is "Varshavianka (The Warsawian)", preformed by Maredith Placencia with Khosrean State Orchestra.

In this chapter, Haywood returns to the Soviet Union to try and bring his wife Ina back to the US.

Harry heads down to Pittsburgh to help out the coal miners in their strike efforts in this chapter of Black Bolshevik.

In this chapter, Haywood comes home from the Soviet Union and gets to work fighting White Chauvinism which runs rampant not only in US society, but in the Communist Party itself

Haywood details his last year in the Soviet Union, in the aptly titled chapter, "My Last Year in the Soviet Union"

I had to do some reading for my political organizing today so I decided to sit down and record myself reading. Today I'm reading Vladimir Lenin's "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism", originally published in 1913 in the Bolshevik monthly Proveshcheniye (Enlightenment) No. 3.