Issued: As an internal document, n.d. [1979].
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Introduction by Paul Costello: The TMLC developed this study guide in 1979 and subsequently used it as an internal education program for members. The TMLC rejected the prevailing tradition of many NCM groups in using internal education to simply inculcate cadre with the “correct line.” The TMLC instead wanted to use internal education to show cadre the history of line struggles and train them to think for themselves and be able to analyze, compare and critique different lines. Hence the readings and discussion questions accompanying the various sessions of this study program.
Week #1: Origins of American Communism
Week #2: The Struggle for a Unified Party
Week #3: Factional Struggles in the 1920’s
Week #6: Browderism and the People’s Front
Week #7: Browderism and the Dissolution of the Party
Week #8: The Reconstituted Party and the Left Opposition
Week #9: McCarthyism and the Cold War, 1947-1955
Week #10: The Factional Struggles of 1956-1958
Week #11: The Provisional Organizing Committee