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Tucson Marxist-Leninist Collective

Study Guide to the History of the World Communist Movement (Twenty-one Sessions)


Issued: As an internal document, n.d. [1979].
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Introduction by Paul Costello: The TMLC developed this study guide in 1977-78 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 show cadre the history of line struggles and train them to think for themselves, to analyze different lines, and be able to evaluate and critique them. Hence the readings and discussion questions accompanying the various sessions.

Weekly Sessions

Week #1: Before the First International

Week #2: The First International

Week #3: The Paris Commune

Week #4: The Second International

Week #5: Bernstein’s Revisionism

Weeks #6-7: The Russian Party Building Experience

Week #8: The Collapse of the Second International

Week #9: The Founding of the Third International

Week #10: The Program of the Communist International

Week #11: The Third Period and Social Fascism

Week #12: The Seventh Comintern Congress

Week #13: The Dissolution of the Comintern

Week #14: Communist Information Bureau

Week #15: Khrushchev on Stalin

Week #16: The Sino-Soviet Dispute

Week #17: The Theory of Capitalist Restoration

Week #18: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Week #19: The Theory of the “Three Worlds”

Week #20: Eurocommunism

Week #21: Conclusions and Sum-up