Please enjoy the first episode covering the 1961 Soviet text "Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism." This episode covers the significance of the Marxist-Leninist Party in relation to the working-class struggle. We hope you learn something new!

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Recommended Literature:

History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) by the C.C. of the CPSU (1939)
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Stalin's Speeches to the CPUSA by J.V. Stalin (1929)
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0:00 Introduction
0:46 Reading 1
4:11 The book's universality? (Q&A)
5:23 Mass vs. cadre parties
7:31 Importance of a Party
10:42 Recruiting academics? (Q&A)
11:40 Joining a Party
13:58 Poison of individualism
15:28 Reading 2
22:12 Anarcho-syndicalism
23:02 Socdem parallels
23:22 The Communist plus
23:55 PCI & PCF
25:15 People's power
26:01 Academics & anarchists
27:20 Bourgeois individualism? (Q&A)
29:14 Reddit & German socdems
30:13 "Inconvenienced billionaires"
31:17 Bourgeois taming
31:36 Social media & DOTP literature? (Q&A)
33:50 Reading 3
38:05 Casual members
39:00 Democratic centralism
40:01 Pacman "revolution"
40:57 Unions lacking demcent
41:38 Bolsheviks are back
42:24 Party pledge
43:17 Party activity
44:38 Demcent misconceptions
46:57 Demcent dialectics
48:13 Join = work
48:52 Anarchistic mindset
49:24 Reading 4
53:42 Communist merit
54:22 Support demcent
54:48 Guiding the Party
55:23 Centralization
55:44 Work to do
56:50 Communism will win
57:58 Communist work
58:38 General Secretary (Q&A)
1:01:29 Vigorous common action
1:01:57 Reading 5
1:09:46 Int'l Communist movement
1:10:55 Experience is the driver
1:11:57 School of practical struggle
1:13:08 Vanguard
1:13:40 Voluntary
1:14:23 Purge
1:15:19 Two centers?
1:16:08 Ultraleftism
1:17:18 Bolshevik infighting?
1:17:57 Importance of leadership
1:19:02 Engaging membership
1:19:31 More demcent
1:20:49 Unity of the masses
1:22:14 Communist candidates & secondary strikes
1:23:55 Genuine social bonds
1:25:00 Party unity
1:25:35 Concluding remarks

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