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

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the second part of a five-part series covering the work 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. Interested in attending a class? Email info@psmls.org for more information 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: 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... 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... 7849qz.html?page=1&pageSize=4 The Communist Party A Manual on Organization by J. Peters (1935) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-pet... History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster (1955) 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... 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 1:14 Reading/lecture 1 11:07 Going "underground" 12:12 Non-communist orgs 12:31 Mass orgs? (Q&A) 14:32 Reading/lecture 2 27:11 Mass org leadership? (Q&A) 28:18 Emphasizing commonalities? (Q&A) 30:19 Opposing gatekeeping 31:22 Unionized work? (Q&A) 32:42 Increased polarization & internet? (Q&A) 37:54 Reading/lecture 3 44:53 William Z. Foster? (Q&A) 45:41 Capitalizing on opportu