Please enjoy this PSMLS class on various introductory Marxist texts. The majority of the literature mentioned in this episode is linked here in the description. Happy reading comrades!

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Literature Used In This Class:

Socialism: Utopian & Scientific by Friedrich Engels (ch. 3) (1880) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​

The State & Revolution by V.I. Lenin (ch. 1) (1917) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​

The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels (ch. 3 ) (1848) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karl-...​ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...​

Recommended Literature:

Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-st...​

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V.I. Lenin (1920) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/vi-le...​

Mastering Bolshevism by J.V. Stalin (1937) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/josep...​ http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html​

The Crisis in the Socialist Party by William Z. Foster (1936) https://digital.library.pitt.edu/isla...​

Marxism & Revisionism by V.I. Lenin (1908) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​

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

The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin (1915) https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...​

Dizzy with Success by J.V. Stalin (1930) https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...​

Speeches on the American Communist Party by J.V. Stalin (1929) http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/docum...​

Ending Song:

USSR National Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jl...​

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Timecode Key:

(Q&A) = Question & Answer / Response

0:00​ Introduction 0:12​ State and Revolution reading 2:44​ Lenin and MLK 4:06​ Marxsim whitewashed 4:45​ What is Kautskyism? (Q&A) 7:37​ Lenin's audience? (Q&A) 8:19​ Marxsim whitewashed cont. 9:14​ Chauvansim & fascism? (Q&A) 10:25​ Manifesto reading 12:16​ Working class parties 13:07​ Manifesto background 13:37​ Universal reformer(s)? (Q&A) 14:35​ Sectarianism? (Q&A) 17:59​ Manifesto reading cont. 20:39​ The middle class 21:42​ Ferdinand Lassalle 22:37​ Reactionary utopian socialism 24:10​ Bourgeois "socialism" 24:49​ Proletariat & unions? (Q&A) 27:35​ Anarchists & industrialization? (Q&A) 29:19​ Manifesto reading cont. 32:18​ Congressional "progressives" 33:06​ Dulled revolutionary potential 33:32​ CPUSA = social democrats 34:55​ Liberal pitfalls 35:34​ Bourgeois "socialism" cont. 36:18​ Engels reading 40:10​ Utopian socialism & white supremacy 40:56​ Utopianism & idealism 41:24​ Book recommendations 48:02​ Leftist trap organizations? (Q&A) 50:29​ 1848 revolutions 51:30​ Changing landscape 52:45​ Not scaring people? (Q&A) 56:46​ Concluding remarks 59:26​ Ending