The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a lecture over the 4th chapter of Karl Marx's pamphlet Wage Labor and Capital. The title of the chapter is By what are wages determined? This text is a cornerstone of Marxist economic theory and understanding. We hope you learn something new!

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Literature Used In This Class:

Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847) (Ch. 4)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​

Recommended Literature:

Karl Marx: Beacon For Our Times by Gus Hall (1983)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/gus-h...​

Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​

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

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

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy the fourth and final-part of a four part PSMLS series discussing Dimitrov's book: The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism and War. This text is very relevant to our current political climate. We hope you learn a lot!

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Watch The Series:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7Ae...​

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopLX...​

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV1Sp...​

Literature Used In This Class:

The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War by Georgi Dimitrov (1938)

http://resistir.info/livros/dimitrov_...​

Recommended Literature:

The Lesson of Germany by Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, & Albert Schreiner (1945)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/alber...​

The Way Out by Earl Browder

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

Recommended Viewing:

Judgment At Nuremberg by Stanley Kramer (1961)

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy the third part of a four-part PSMLS series discussing Dimitrov's book: The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism and War. This text is very relevant to our current political climate. We hope you learn a lot!

Interested in attending a class? Email [email protected] for more information

Watch The Series:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7Ae...​

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopLX...​

Part 4: https://youtu.be/QtGvjWyMNUk​

Literature Used In This Class:

The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War by Georgi Dimitrov (1938)

http://resistir.info/livros/dimitrov_...​

Recommended Literature:

The Lesson of Germany by Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, & Albert Schreiner (1945)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/alber...​

The Way Out by Earl Browder

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

Socialism by Michael Harrington (1972) (No Link Available)

Recommended Viewing:

Judgment At Nuremberg by Stanley Kramer (1961)

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy the second part of a four-part PSMLS series discussing Dimitrov's book: The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism and War. This text is very relevant to our current political climate. We hope you learn a lot!

Interested in attending a class? Email [email protected] for more information

Watch The Series:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7Ae...​

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV1Sp...​

Part 4: https://youtu.be/QtGvjWyMNUk​

Literature Used In This Class:

The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War by Georgi Dimitrov (1938)

http://resistir.info/livros/dimitrov_...​

Recommended Literature:

The Lesson of Germany by Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, & Albert Schreiner (1945)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/alber...​

The Way Out by Earl Browder (1941)

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

Recommended Viewing:

Judgement At Nuremburg by Stanley Kramer (1961)

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/

Please enjoy the first part of a four-part PSMLS series discussing Dimitrov’s book: The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War. This text is very relevant to our current political climate. We hope you learn a lot!

Interested in attending a class? Email [email protected] for more information

Watch The Series:

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopLX...​

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV1Sp...​

Part 4: https://youtu.be/QtGvjWyMNUk​

Literature Used In This Class:

The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War by Georgi Dimitrov (1938)

http://resistir.info/livros/dimitrov_...​

Recommended Literature:

The Lesson of Germany by Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, & Albert Schreiner (1945)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/alber...​

The Way Out by Early Browder (1941)

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

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​

Timecode Key:

(Q&A) = Question & Answer/Response

0:00​ Historical background of the united front

5:26​ United Front reading (pg.39)

7:23​ Fascism and the working class (reading)

10:09​ Victory of fascism in Germany (reading)

11:15​ Similarities to current attacks on China

13:35​ Illusion of bourgeois democracy

14:28​ United front vs. popular front? (Q&A)

15:46​ Voting in a non-fascist during capitalism’s decline? (Q&A)

17:17​ Views on upcoming 2020 election

19:14​ Class character of fascism (reading)

20:41​ Fascism is not a form of state power (reading continued)

22:04​ Different developments of fascism (reading continued)

23:28​ Distinction of fascist dictatorship (reading continued)

24:37​ Similarities to present day

25:27​ Analysis of Trump

26:42​ Fascistic elements of U.S. government? (Q&A)

28:37​ Analyzing fascism in a class context? (Q&A)

30:55​ Trump as an incompetent fascist

32:26​ NATO strengthened or weakened? (Q&A)

33:55​ Myths of l aissez-faire capitalism

34:33​ Underplaying the mass movements behind fascism

35:22​ Is fascism inevitable in America? (Q&A)

39:02​ This election is different

40:07​ Different time in history for the United States

40:47​ Biden presidency

41:10​ Need to pay attention to the Democrats

41:45​ Weakness of the U.S left

42:08​ Threat to democracy

42:24​ Comparisons of Germany to the United States

42:56​ Book recommendation

43:13​ One election isn’t enough

43:29​ Shouldn’t prolong liberalism

44:07​ History repeats itself

44:37​ Biden is not our savior

45:12​ The need to expand socialism

45:46​ Quote by Stalin

46:17​ Revolutionary instincts

46:46​ Examples of foreign interventions

48:11​ Closing remarks

The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the second and final part of a two-part series on the Moscow Trials, as covered in the memoirs of Comrade Sam Darcy. Please enjoy!

Interested in attending a class? Email [email protected] for more information

Watch the Series:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/lJD37DKBjF4​

Literature Used:

The Moscow Trials by Sam Darcy (From His Memoirs) (No Link Available)

Literature Mentioned:

Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise by Moissaye J. Olgin (1935)

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

https://www.lulu.com/en/ie/shop/moiss...​

Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937)

http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html​

Trotsky's Day in Court by Harry Haywood (from Chapter 6 Black Bolshevik, 1978)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/hayw...​

Viewing Mentioned:

Mission to Moscow by Joseph Davies (1943)

The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3Rz...​

Recommended Literature On The Moscow Trials:

An Eye-Witness At The Wreckers' Trial by Sam Darcy

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/...​

Trial Of The Group Of Conspirators Of The ‘Bloc Of Rights And Trotskyists’: The Crushing Of The Traitors – A Triumph For Peace And Socialism by Harry Pollitt

https://www.marxists.org/archive/poll...​

History Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course (Chapter 12, Section 4)

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

Evidence Of Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration With Germany And Japan by Grover Furr (PDF Download)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...​

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

0:45​ Reading section 1

5:42​ Individualism: a stain on socialism

7:20​ Trotsky & Lenin? (Q&A)

9:26​ Reading section 2

13:35​ Soviet industrialization? (Q&A)

16:28​ Reading section 3

20:09​ 'Fifth column'

22:52​ Trotsky & the fascists

23:45​ Individualism & the left

24:45​ Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise

26:51​ More on individualism

27:13​ Conspirator organization levels? (Q&A)

28:16​ Trotskyism vs. Anarchism? (Q&A)

29:20​ More Trotsky & the fascists

29:31​ Sabotage effects on Soviet citizens? (Q&A)

30:31​ Ultralefts in South America

31:13​ 'Fifth column' elaboration? (Q&A)

32:53​ 'Fifth column' in France? (Q&A)

35:08​ Conclusion

The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the first part of a two-part series on the Moscow Trials, as covered in the memoirs of Comrade Sam Darcy. Please enjoy!

Interested in attending a class? Email [email protected] for more information

Watch the series:

Part 2: https://youtu.be/ey8ExwqmaPI​

Literature Used In This Class:

The Moscow Trials by Sam Darcy (From His Memoirs) (No Link Available)

Recommended Literature On The Moscow Trials:

An Eye-Witness At The Wreckers' Trial by Sam Darcy

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/...​

Trial Of The Group Of Conspirators Of The ‘Bloc Of Rights And Trotskyists’: The Crushing Of The Traitors – A Triumph For Peace And Socialism by Harry Pollitt

https://www.marxists.org/archive/poll...​

History Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course (Chapter 12, Section 4)

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

Evidence Of Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration With Germany And Japan by Grover Furr (PDF Download)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...​

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​

Timecode Key:

(Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response

0:00​ Reading section 1

6:15​ U.S.S.R. & Weimar Germany

8:46​ Myth of "fabricated charges"

9:41​ Influence of Machiavelli? (Q&A)

12:25​ Counter-revolutionary movies

15:25​ Reading section 2

20:51​ Most dangerous counter-revolutionary? (Q&A)

21:36​ Courtroom boasting? (Q&A)

22:13​ Historical context? (Q&A)

23:56​ Reading section 3

32:45​ Importance of the trials

33:37​ The Prince? (Q&A)

34:04​ Mistakes? (Q&A)

35:42​ Literature & agitprop

36:40​ Dialectical analysis

37:05​ Mission to Moscow

37:39​ Socialism beats capitalism

38:14​ Other sources? (Q&A)

40:29​ John Dewey

41:26​ Popularity in Mexico

41:33​ Conclusion

We have a wonderful class for you: a lesson on the German Democratic Republic taught by Comrade Angelo. Learn of the birth, anniversary, and history of this important place through this lesson conducted 71 years after its inception. Please enjoy!

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No Literature Used In This Class

Recommended Literature on the GDR:

From My Life by Erich Honecker

https://archive.org/details/NeoColoni...​

The Neo-Colonialism of the West German Federal Republic: A Documentation

https://archive.org/details/NeoColoni...​

We Shall Continue On Our Good Road Of Peace and Socialism: New Year's Message by Walter Ulbricht

https://archive.org/details/weshallco...​

The German Democratic Republic Acts In The Interests Of The German Nation

https://archive.org/details/germandem...​

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

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

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​

Timecode Key:

(Q&A) = Question & Answer/Resposne

0:00​ Introduction

0:56​ GDR National Anthem

3:40​ Anthem Analysis

4:30​ History of GDR Formation

5:33​ Allies introduce a new currency

7:20​ Formation of GDR

8:00​ The anti-fascist wall

8:25​ Consequences of the wall falling

8:53​ East Germany post-wall? (Q&A)

11:09​ Conditions of Berlin?

12:09​ U.S.S.R. & socialist "satellites"

13:44​ Allies & the Nazis

14:17​ Economic reasons for the Berlin Wall

15:23​ GDR "brain drain"? (Q&A)

16:56​ U.S.A. comparisons

17:45​ The Marshall Plan

20:36​ Neo-nazis in the West German Government

21:33​ Anti-Fascism in the GDR

21:58​ Fraternal Help

24:50​ Meir Vilner

25:21​ Operation Paperclip

25:41​ Pay & western investment? (Q&A)

27:45​ Marshall Plan & European education? (Q&A)

28:50​ Marshall Plan vs. the communist movement

30:33​ NATO and the Warsaw Pact

33:48​ Suicide in East Germany

34:32​ U.S.S.R. & reparations? (Q&A)

35:07​ Cost of Medical care? (Q&A)

36:03​ Von Braun forming NASA

36:24​ Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker? (Q&A)

37:15​ Emigration in Germany

38:01​ U.S.S.R. & formation of the GDR? (Q&A)

38:59​ Women’s liberation in the GDR

39:47​ The Fatherland Front

40:04​ The GDR a "puppet state"?

40:36​ U.S.A. & nazi assimilation

41:15​ Operation Osoaviakhim

42:09​ The Marshall Plan & neoliberalism? (Q&A)

The Peoples’ School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents a much-needed lesson on the history and politics of the DPRK. We hope you find it as informative as we did hearing it the first time. Enjoy!

Interested in attending a class? Email [email protected] for more information

Literature Used In This Class:

https://www.korea-dpr.com/founding_dp...​

https://www.korea-dpr.com/foundation_...​

Recommended Reading on the DPRK:

This Monstrous War by Wilfred G Burchett

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/wilfr...​

DPRK Archives

https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...​

Also Visit:

https://www.kfausa.org/​

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/​

Timecode Key:

(Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response

0:00​ DPRK introduction

2:00​ Battle of Chongju

2:32​ U.N vote

3:00​ Syngman Rhee

3:30​ U.N agreement

3:51​ What is the name of the article? ( Q & A )

4:11​ AKFIC

4:52​ Quislings

5:22​ Park Chung-hee

6:10​ Korean War

7:51​ Reading session 1

10:28​ Mao’s son

10:37​ Elections? (Q&A)

10:56​ Chinese aid? (Q&A)

12:27​ Start of the Korean War? (Q&A)

13:54​ U.S state department

14:45​ Reading session 2

20:40​ What is Chollima? (Q&A)

21:20​ Korean farmland? (Q&A)

22:01​ What was the Chinese interest? (Q&A)

22:55​ Wilford Burchett

24:45​ Application of Marxism Leninism? (Q&A)

26:00​ Comparison of Chollima and Stakhanovite (Q&A)

27:00​ Roll of Soviet aid? (Q&A)

28:07​ World Peace Council

28:39​ Vito Marcantonio

29:12​ Veterans for peace

29:56​ Book recommendation

30:05​ What if the north had won? (Q&A)

30:39​ General comment

30:59​ Significance of the parallel split? (Q&A)

31:33​ Information recommendation

32:44​ One Korea

34:06​ Communist influence

34:46​ Book recommendations

35:22​ General comments

36:40​ U.S and Soviet confrontation? (Q&A)

37:15​ Concluding remarks

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist studies presents an extension of the class on January 7th, which covered the events that took place at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th, 2021. This class focuses on the Marxist-Leninist response to these events. Listen and enjoy.

Interested in attending a class? Email [email protected] for more information

Watch the United Front Series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7Ae...​

Watch the first class on the Putsch:

https://youtu.be/18M-IPC-ad8​

Literature Used In This Class:

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

https://www.bannedthought.net/USA/CPU...​

America's Pro-Worker Parties React to D.C. Riots:

https://www.idcommunism.com/2021/01/t...​

KKE General Secretary Statement:

https://www.idcommunism.com/2021/01/k...​

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...​

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920)

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...​

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

The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War by Georgi Dimitrov (1938)

http://resistir.info/livros/dimitrov_...​

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti (1997)

https://eastsidemarxism.files.wordpre...​

The Way Out by Earl Browder

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

The Struggle Against Fascism by Clara Zetkin (1923)

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

PSMLS Website:

http://peoplesschool.org/contact/​

Party of Communists USA Website:

https://partyofcommunistsusa.org/about/