Enjoy this PSMLS Clip derived from the 2021 class "CPUSA Leadership pt. 1/3." Do we call ourselves Communists? Do we call ourselves Marxist-Leninists? What labels do we use to describe ourselves? We hope this clip helps clarify these questions!

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Watch the Full Class:

https://youtu.be/Gl4d8mjuRI0

Recommended Literature:

Why Communism? Plain Talks on Vital Problems by Moissaye J. Olgin (1934)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/moiss...

https://www.marxists.org/archive/olgi...

What Is Marxism? by Emile Burns (1939)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/emile...

https://www.marxists.org/archive/burn...

The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...

Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a study on the radical origins of International Women's Day! As comrade Mao Zedong correctly stated: "Women hold up half the sky." Enjoy listening!

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Literature Used In This Class:

International Women's Day by Birgitte Søland

https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/QGC...

Recommended Reading:

An Interview with Lenin on the Woman Question by Clara Zetkin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetk...

Lenin on the Women’s Question by Clara Zetkin (1920)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/zetk...

Communism & the Family by Alexandra Kollontai (1920)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/koll...

PSMLS LinkTree:

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Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

0:00 Introduction

0:18 Reading 1

3:00 Half of the Population

3:39 Chicago Gathering (Q&A)

4:18 Socialists & Feminists

5:05 U.S. Origins

5:43 Connection to Second International? (Q&A)

8:20 Pushback? (Q&A)

8:42 The U.N. & IWD

9:14 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

10:10 Reading 2

12:01 Resistance to the Woman Question? (Q&A)

14:53 Feminism & Postmodernism

16:38 Reading 3

19:57 Engels quote

22:24 Cossacks? (Q&A)

23:29 Social Uprisings

23:55 How did this happen? (Q&A)

25:44 Tsar's Trip to the Front

26:15 Analyze things dialectically

28:26 Eisenstein movie

28:51 Reading 4

32:41 Bourgeois co-opting? (Q&A)

34:44 Communism & IWD

36:32 Reading 5

39:05 Accomplishments vs. Protests

39:35 Co-opting icons

40:00 Other holidays? (Q&A)

41:38 IWD celebrations

42:20 Combahee River Collective

43:11 "Waves" of Feminism? (Q&A)

43:59 Petty-Bourgeois Feminists

45:24 Bama-zon

46:17 Identity Politics

47:31 Class "identity"

48:01 Fanny Hechtman

48:55 Pat Sloan quote

52:20 Nadezhda Krupskaya

54:09 Capitalism & Working-Class Mothers

56:18 Reading Recommendations

59:43 Are Communists Feminists? (Q&A)

1:01:08 Proletarian Feminism? (Q&A)

1:02:31 Alexandra Kollontai

1:03:08 Imperialist U.N. tactics? (Q&A)

1:06:34 Co-opting cont.

1:07:42 Re-center our Analysis

1:08:36 Red Detachment of Women

1:12:40 More Reading Recommendations

1:13:31 "Pueblos"

1:13:54 Ending

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of Moses Miller's 1950 pamphlet "Soviet 'Anti-Semitism': The Big Lie!" This pamphlet decisively debunks the conspiratorial myth that the Soviet Union, of all places, was "anti-semitic." We hope you learn something new!

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Literature Used:

Soviet "Anti-Semitism": The Big Lie! by Moses Miller (1950)

https://archive.org/details/miller-mo...

Recommended Literature:

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/

The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...

Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932)

http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/...

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a reading of the article "From Eurocommunism to Present Opportunism" by Raúl Martinez Turrero. This article explains the development of Eurocommunism as a historical trend and its implications for the world Communist movement. This trend spurred a cancerous growth of opportunism and class collaboration which the Communist movement in western Europe has yet to recover from.

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Literature Used:

"From Eurocommunism to Present Opportunism" by Raúl Martinez Turrero (2012)

https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/2xX...

Recommended Literature:

Readers' Guide to Marxist Classics by Maurice Cornforth (1954)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/mauri...

Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J.V. Stalin (1938)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-sta...

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...

Communists and the Liberation of Europe by Maxine Levi (1945)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/maxin...

PSMLS Website:

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Party of Communists USA Website

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy this PSMLS reading of comrade William Z.Foster's 1941 pamphlet "Communism vs. Fascism." The lumping together of these two polar opposite systems causes dangerous confusion for the working masses. We hope this reading clarifies the obvious and clear distinctions between these two political systems. Enjoy!

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Literature Used:

Communism versus Fascism by William Z. Foster (1941)

https://studylib.net/doc/8069811/will...

Recommended Literature:

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/

The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...

Toward Soviet America by William Z. Foster (1932)

http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/...

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Enjoy this PSMLS Clip derived from the 2021 class "CPUSA Leadership pt. 1/3." How does somebody like Joe Sims earn their way to a key leadership position in a Party with such a rich history as the CPUSA? Watch and find out!

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Watch the Full Class:

https://youtu.be/Gl4d8mjuRI0

Recommended Literature:

Why Communism? Plain Talks on Vital Problems by Moissaye J. Olgin (1934)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/moiss...

https://www.marxists.org/archive/olgi...

What Is Marxism? by Emile Burns (1939)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/emile...

https://www.marxists.org/archive/burn...

The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...

Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a translated book (originally Spanish) by comrade Luis Corvalán. Corvalán was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile for over 3 decades. He was an ardent defender of the Soviet and Eastern European socialist experiences. Comrade Corvalán passed away on July 21, 2010. This episode begins a series of chapters on the publication "Conversations with Margot Honecker," (2000). We hope this series sheds light on the true historical nature of the first socialist state built on German Soil. This text was originally retrieved from marxists.org. Enjoy!

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Material used:

https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/6JB...

Original Spanish text:

https://www.marxists.org/espanol/corv...

Recommended Literature:

Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens (1994)

https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpre...

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise by John Green & Bruni de la Motte (2015)

https://ia800109.us.archive.org/4/ite...

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...

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/

Party of Communists USA Website

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the letter written by comrade V.I. Lenin to the central committee members of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party on November 6th, the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 will forever be remembered as the event which allowed for the prolonged establishment of the first society of the future: socialism.

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Literature Used In This Class:

Lenin Collected Works, Volume 26, pp. 234-235.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...

Recommended Literature:

10 Days That Shook the World by John Reed (1919)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/john-...

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...

Imperialism and the Split in Socialism by V.I. Lenin (1916)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...

PSMLS Website:

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Party of Communists USA Website

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Enjoy this PSMLS Clip! This is derived from the 2021 class " "Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder (pt. 5/5)." We hope this clip is a call to action for all those outside of a group or organization. Communists are with the collective; they are not individualists.

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Watch the Full Class:

https://youtu.be/fV01n6UE8RM

Recommended Literature:

Why Communism? Plain Talks on Vital Problems by Moissaye J. Olgin (1934)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/moiss...

https://www.marxists.org/archive/olgi...

What Is Marxism? by Emile Burns (1939)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/emile...

https://www.marxists.org/archive/burn...

The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...

Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...

Outro Music:

USSR Anthem by the Red Army Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFvdi...

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Party of Communists USA Website:

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Please enjoy the fourth and final part of a four-part series on the basic tenets of a Leninist Party (i.e. a Party of a New Type). This episode goes into the current manifestation of the only Leninist Party currently within the United States, the PCUSA (Party of Communists USA). We hope you learn something new!

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Literature Used In This Class:

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Recommended Literature:

Revisionism, Opportunism, Poly-Marxism by Gaspar Jorge Garcia Gallo (1974). Republished by the S.I.M.S.G. (Staten Island Marxist Study Group) in 1989 under the Educational Department of the Staten Island Club of the Communist Party U.S.A.

https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/4pe...

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...

The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet...

History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) by the C.C. of the CPSU (1939)

https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brow...

Stalin's Speeches on the CPUSA by J.V. Stalin (1929)

https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

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

0:08 Lecture 1

6:56 Internationales? (Q&A)

7:41 Hugo Chavez? (Q&A)

10:07 Old CPUSA issues

11:23 Cuba, Stalin, & Chavez

12:39 AES democratic centralism? (Q&A)

13:14 More Internationales? (Q&A)

16:36 Old CPUSA

19:48 Pre-Party Formation? (Q&A)

20:47 Perestroika support? (Q&A)

23:18 Jarvis Tyner story

24:20 Dem-cent & Perestroika? (Q&A)

30:39 Lecture 2

38:02 Haywood clarification

38:28 PLP

39:29 Other US Parties? (Q&A)

41:15 Splitting over tactics? (Q&A)

43:32 Ideological splits? (Q&A)

49:30 Stalin & H.G. Wells

49:52 YCL radicalization? (Q&A)

50:54 PSMLS vs. public universities

51:23 Previous CPUSA experiences

52:22 DSA & Dem-Cent? (Q&A)

53:30 Marxism & Revisionism

54:26 Sam Webb's Blog

57:49 Reading Recommendations

58:28 Importance of PCUSA History

59:42 Hoxhaism

1:01:42 Contemporary Splits

1:02:22 Communist Bloodline

1:03:24 More on Hoxhaism? (Q&A)

1:05:26 WWP Experiences

1:06:33 Democratic Centralism

1:07:56 CIA Chicanery? (Q&A)

1:09:03 Bolsheviks & Pre-Party Formation? (Q&A)

1:10:58 Stalin Destroys Liberalism

1:12:21 Other Party Experiences

1:12:55 J. Peters' Book

1:13:37 Market socialism? (Q&A)

1:15:39 CPUSA Revisionism? (Q&A)

1:16:54 Changing Global Framework

1:18:21 Concluding Remarks