Class description: In chapter 15, we look at why machinery provides the technical foundations on which the capitalist mode of production--which has to do with the transferring of the worker's skill and knowledge to...
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China class 4: Is China capitalist?
Class description: This week’s class discusses the development and status of China's economy. The first part begins by clarifying the debate over China's economy and emphasizing the historical, material, and...
China class 3: Twin tasks of the revolution (1949-1979)
Class description: This week’s class covers the first 30 years of the People’s Republic, the period of the initial construction of socialism and the struggle between two lines. After liberation in 1949, China set about...
China class 2: National liberation and class struggle (1919-1949)
Class description: This second class covers the 30 years from 1919 to 1949, during which the revolution grew from a collection of Marxist reading groups to the establishment of the People’s Republic. We examine the founding...
China class 1: From Imperial China to the Century of Humiliation (1800-1919)
Class description: The first class in the series is devoted to tracing the decline of the ancient imperial order in China under the combined attacks of Western imperialism and domestic rebellion in the course of the 19th and...
Comrade Class with Jodi Dean pt. 3: We need comrades
There are times when solidarity appears more important than ever. When things are tough, we need comrades who will have our backs. This three-part course examines political solidarity by focusing on...
Comrade Class with Jodi Dean pt. 2: Four theses on the comrade
There are times when solidarity appears more important than ever. When things are tough, we need comrades who will have our backs. This three-part course examines political solidarity by focusing on comradeship as the...
Comrade Class with Jodi Dean pt. 1: From allies to comrades
There are times when solidarity appears more important than ever. When things are tough, we need comrades who will have our backs. This three-part course examines political solidarity by focusing on...
A Black Harlem communist speaks: Abner Berry 1-5
Editor’s Note: Liberation School continues our Black Communist History series with a transcription of an interview with Abner Berry. Berry edited the Harlem edition of The Daily Worker in the 1940s and 1950s. He was a founding member of Black Workers for Justice....