How to Be a Good Communist (pt. 1/2) - PSMLS Audio

Please enjoy the first part of a two-part PSMLS series on Liu Shaoqi's crucial 1939 text: How to Be a Good Communist. We may go around calling ourselves Communists, but what does this actually entail? What does it mean to truly be a good Communist? Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information Literature Used In This Class: How to Be a Good Communist by Liu Shaoqi (Ch. 1) (1939) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...​ 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...​ The Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel (1903) https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/c...​ Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html​ The State and Revolution by V.I. Lenin (1917) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels (1880) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​ How to Be a Good Communist by Liu Shaoqi (1939) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...​ Ending Song: 国际歌 / The Internationale (Chinese) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiN-D...​ 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 1:55​ Reading (Ch. 1) 5:51​ Pure Marxism 6:56​ Role of Mao 10:42​ Necessity of revolution 11:24​ Mastering Bolshevism similarities? (Q&A) 13:05​ Reading (Ch. 1 cont.) 18:14​ Party building? (Q&A) 19:11​ Bourgeois "baggage" 20:20​ Understand the enemy 21:46​ Application during political q