Party Building & Political Leadership (pt. 4/5) - PSMLS Audio

The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

The People's School for Marxist-Leninist Studies presents the fourth part of a five-part series covering the pamphlet "Party Building and Political Leadership" by comrades William Z. Foster, James Ford, Charles Krumbein, and Alex Bittleman. This specific episode pulls primarily from comrade James Ford's contribution to the pamphlet. Strengthening the Party, particularly within ethnic and diverse communities, is an essential component of building the Communist movement. This text should prove useful to anyone looking to help build socialism in the United States. Interested in attending a class? Email [e-mail] 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: The Meaning of San Rafael by Henry Winston (1971) https://ourcloud.usvanguard.net/s/3Fk... 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... The Way Out by Earl Browder (1941) 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 0:40 Reading/Lecture 1 10:27 Avoiding imitation? (Q&A) 12:55 Mass org importance 13:50 Reading/Lecture 2 20:18 New technology 21:20 Reading/Lecture 3 28:13 Skepticism of black community 33:37 Latino recruiting 34:42 Alabama crop sharers (Q&A) 35:28 Mutual aid 37:08 Communist subculture 38:11 CPUSA & ethnic communities 39:12 Meaning of San Rafael 39:29 Ending