Leftist Reading: What Is Marxism All About? Part 1

Leftist Reading

Episode 4:

This week’s reading is “What is Marxism All About?”
by F.I.S.T. - Fight Imperialism, Stand Together

Available online here: https://www.workers.org/books2016/what-is-marxism-all-about-by-fist.pdf

[Part 1 – This Week]

Class Society – 00:55

Capital and Capitalism – 04:26

Exploitation and Surplus Value – 08:12

Private Property – 12:44

Dialectical and Historical Materialism – 16:47

Class Solidarity and Class Struggle – 20:41

Imperialism and Globalization – 24:31

Part 2

8. Women’s Oppression

9. Racism and Oppressed Nations

10. Lesbian, Bi, Gay, Trans and Queer Oppression

11. Self-Determination

12. Culture

13. How the State Arose

14. The State Today

Part 3

15. Democracy

16. Reformism

17. Labor Bureaucracy

18. Fascism

19. Revolution

20. Socialism

21. Socialist Countries

22. Communism