Book Club Commune

it's a classic and it's in my backlog of prerecorded episodes, it's stats and rev by Lenin

this is it! the last parts of imperialism! woo!

we're back! hopefully I can get this going much more regularly than I have been but for now! back at it!

idc

it's chapter 6! yay!

Lenin says some stuff idk what to say I have a headache

There may be an audio problem in the first few minutes of the reading, there might not be. Listen in fear.

New Book, Same Old Shit, moving into some better edited theory by Lenin, Imperialism!

Hey! We finished a book!

An episode I started last year (much laughter), finally chapter three is out. not much to say, only sorry, and you're welcome.

Again, sorry for my bad Russian pronunciations, I can promise it will only get worse. Anyways, Economism, what's that all about?

Tarantinoing the shit out of this podcast as we jump back in time to get into some Vladimir Lenin! we're starting with What is to be Done and seeing how far we go with it, so sit down, grab some tea or coffee, and enjoy!

on this episode, we start getting into Mao's On Guerrilla Warfare, because every Marxist has written a book ok guerrilla warfare lmao.

--this episode was recorded and edited by my comrade in the Shenandoah Socialist Collective, Contradictions (@simpingforstalin on TikTok)-- in this episode we take a look at Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels, in the first of hopefully many collaborations with my comrades in the SSC

In this long awaited episode, we finally get back to Mao and see his critiques and ideas concerning Stalin's work "The Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR". oh and hey by the way the audio quality of the 2nd half is like suuuuuper shitty but wasn't shitty enough to make me re record so y'all are just gonna have to deal lmao. Intro music is a Chinese version of the Internationale. @m00njunk on twitter for questions and criticisms

today we are finishing up Stalin's short but informative work by deep diving into what exactly is historical materialism. intro music is the national anthem of the USSR as sung by Paul Robeson.

In this episode we jump into the first work by joey steel I've ever read: Dialectical and Historical Materialism. it's short, sweet, and I'm pretty sure is just basically quotes by Engels and Marx. Intro music is the National Anthem of the USSR as sung by Paul Robeson

Today we finish up Concerning the Economic Conditions of Socialism in the USSR by Joseph Stalin! watch how Stalin girlbosses gatekeeps and gaslights his way into finishing a book with a chapter with only 300 words in it. the intro music is the national anthem of the USSR as sung by Paul Robeson.

Stalin is not a man of many words, so we move quickly along through chapters 5, 6, and 7 in this episode of the Book Club Commune! intro music is the national anthem of the USSR as sung by Paul Robeson

we move right along to chapters three and four of Concerning the Economic Conditions of Socialism in the USSR by none other than Joseph Stalin! intro is the National Anthem of the Soviet Union as sung by Paul Robeson

In preparation for more Mao, we cut to the Man of Steel himself, Joseph Stalin, as he details the economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, in the aptly titled work, Concerning the Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR. the intro music is the Soviet national anthem, as sung by Paul Robeson.

today we sit in for the longest episode recorded since we finished Black Bolshevik, On Contradiction! theory rich, it follows on where On Practice (already up in a previous episode) left off. Intro music is a Chinese version of the Internationale.

Today is a triple threat, with liberalism, atomic warfare, and paper tigers, oh my! We cover Combat Liberalism, The Chinese People Cannot be Cowed by the Atom Bomb, and US Imperialism is a Paper Tiger. Intro music is a Chinese version of the Internationale.

Today we talk about combining theory and practice in the aptly titled work, On Practice. The intro music is a Chinese version of the Internationale.

Today we dive into 'Oppose Book Worship' by Mao Zedong, which talks about investigation and who has the right to speak and when. The intro music is a Chinese version of the Internationale.

In this final episode of 'Reform or Revolution?' we read chapters 9 and 10 and finally put to bed the opportunism of Bernstein. The intro music is "Varshavianka (The Warsawian)", preformed by Maredith Placencia with Khosrean State Orchestra.

In this episode, we cover chapters 7 and 8, and we continue viciously tearing apart the logic of reformists until they have absolutely nothing left. The intro music is "Varshavianka (The Warsawian)", preformed by Maredith Placencia with Khosrean State Orchestra.

In this episode, Rosa really doesn't hold back against this Bernstein fellow, huh? The intro music is "Varshavianka (The Warsawian)", preformed by Maredith Placencia with Khosrean State Orchestra.

Diving into some Mao, we cover "A Single Spark Can Start A Prairie Fire", which talks about pessimism and how revolution can come from just a single spark. The intro music is a Chinese version of the Internationale.

In what will probably be the last time I read something by Haywood for a while, we dive into an argument that still plagues the left to this very day: is *(insert socialist country here)* imperialist and needs to be fought against?

Haywood wraps up the book with an analysis of the future of the Black liberation struggle, in words that are both optimistic and depressingly applicable to today's struggles

Haywood sees the culmination of Browderism in the party, resulting in further degradation and disintegrated of the Communist Party USA.

In this episode, the party is further liquidated as the Red Scare, HUAC, and general anti-communist bullshit take effect in America

Browder has been exposed, but will the influence of Browderism be expunged from the party? can the CPUSA correct itself? No! but let's read about it anyways! it's Chapter 20 of Black Bolshevik!

In this episode, World War 2 breaks out in earnest, Haywood is targeted by CPUSA leaders in a slander campaign, and Haywood becomes a sailor.

In this chapter, Haywood heads off to Spain to help in the fight against the rising fascist tide but comes into trouble with the International Brigade political struggles.

In this chapter, Haywood moves back to Chicago to get out of the bureaucracy of CPUSA headquarters and to do on the ground organizing in the Southside.

In this episode, we talk more about how Bernstein thinks capitalism will adapt it's way out of crises (spoiler: it can't) and how he believes labor reform by bourgeois governments is actually socialism. Basically, Bernstein is just a modern day social democrat. a literal bernie bro. The intro music is "Varshavianka (The Warsawian)", preformed by Maredith Placencia with Khosrean State Orchestra.

In this episode, Haywood goes to the 8th convention of the CPUSA, and outlines the dangers and the need to fight against petty bourgeois nationalism.

CONTENT WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC MENTIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER. In this episode, Haywood travels to the deep south to do some organizing and to see the Black Belt Thesis in action. Oh, and some Black sharecroppers get guns and shoot at come cops.

In a surprise twist, I'm started a second book in addition to Black Bolshevik, I am reading "Reform or Revolution" by Rosa Luxemburg. This is a text that I am reading for my organization's reading group, but since it's longer than one article, it wouldn't make sense to make it a Mini Commune like I did for Lenin's "The Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism", so instead I decided to ruin the linear podcast feed and dedicate a few episodes to Rosa. The intro music is "Varshavianka (The Warsawian)", preformed by Maredith Placencia with Khosrean State Orchestra.

In this chapter, Haywood returns to the Soviet Union to try and bring his wife Ina back to the US.

Harry heads down to Pittsburgh to help out the coal miners in their strike efforts in this chapter of Black Bolshevik.

In this chapter, Haywood comes home from the Soviet Union and gets to work fighting White Chauvinism which runs rampant not only in US society, but in the Communist Party itself

Haywood details his last year in the Soviet Union, in the aptly titled chapter, "My Last Year in the Soviet Union"

I had to do some reading for my political organizing today so I decided to sit down and record myself reading. Today I'm reading Vladimir Lenin's "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism", originally published in 1913 in the Bolshevik monthly Proveshcheniye (Enlightenment) No. 3.

The curtains close on Lovestone and the Rightists in this chapter of Black Bolshevik