Top Video Courses
TREASON TRILOGY: Casino capitalism, a futile 'war on terror,' and ecological doom. THREE FILMS, each just under an hour, on three megaproblems on our collective plate. Great for study groups.- THREE RECONSTRUCTIONS. Rev William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP speaks to the Steelworkers convention, laying out the 'fusion strategy' of the Moral Monday movement. One hour, powerful and inspiring.
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Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama, two hours with Tim Wise and his audience. Excellent for understanding privilege and the intersection of race and class. Listen to it in sections for study qroups, or all at once.
- DEMOCRACY, NATURAL RIGHTS & 21ST CENTURY SOCIALISM. A 20 minute video talk by Carl Davidson at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Good discussion starter.
- THE DOG WHISTLE OF RACIAL POLITICS. A 20 minute discussion starter with Bill Moyers and Ian Haney Lopez on how the rightwing political class uses race to manipulate elections.
- THE WORKING UNDERCLASS. A short video, 26 minutes, that exposes the nature of work and low wages in de-industrialized New Jersey, but typical across the U.S. Excellent as a discussion starter for campaigns around the minimum wage and/or a deeper look at capitalism today.
- SELLING CIGARETTES, BACON AND EGGS,AND WARS: Edward Bernays: Part 1 and Part 2, Cigarettes and Sufferettes, and the Selling of Wars. The nephew of Freud, Bernays invented public relations as a tool for capitalism, not only to sell its goods, but also its wars and other policies. The key the all other media studies. Less than 20 minutes. Great discussion starter on how hegemony is manufactured. Download his classic book, 'Propaganda,' HERE
- Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change.In a 30 minute video with Bill Moyers, Klein, author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, says the tragic destruction of Hurricane Sandy can also be the catalyst for the transformation of politics and our economy. Good discussion group starter.
- From Capitalism's Crises to a New Order: 11 minute David Harvey animation video. Great discussion starter
- Reading Marx's Capital. 13 Video Lectures with David Harvey, author of 'The Enigma of Capital'. Powerful and effective, but be prepared to workk at it!
- Ollie Stone's 'Untold History' All 10 parts of Stone's series on birth of the American Empire. Chapter 1: World War II Chapter 2: Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace Chapter 3: The Bomb Chapter 4: The Cold War: 1945–1950 Chapter 5: The 50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World. Chapter 6: JFK: To the Brink Chapter 7: Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune Chapter 8: Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Revival of Fortune Chapter 9: Bush & Clinton: Squandered Peace - New World Order Chapter 10: Bush & Obama: Age of Terror
- Discussion Starter: Automated Green Energy Production. This seven-minute video hightlighting Conergy, a fully automated factory producing solar cells in Germany, should open a variety of topics--the new working class, the labor theory of value, the falling rate of profit, the ability to shift to a solar-powered world, and much more.
- Carl Davidson at Berlin's Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on Mondragon's Impact
- Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2 with David Harvey: 4 90-min videos so far...
- Marxian Economics with Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick.
Top Course Outlines and Materials
FOR MARXISTS DOING ELECTORAL WORK, studying Poulantzas is a big help. We have a free book by him in the books section. But check out 'Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era' by Colin Jenkins of the Hampton Institute to get you started.- POLITICS & CLIMATE CHANGE. Results of an import study of the 'Six Americas' as clusters of thinking on climate change, and how they are reflected in the electorate. Key to discussion of a Green Deal Deal. Download as PDF,
- KEY ISSUES FOR A NEW ORDER. Position papers on various features of 21st Century Socialism, in theory and practice on the web site, Envisioning a Post-Capitalist Order: A Collaborative Project. Any one article can start a discussion. Also valuable links to other site.
- FUSION POLITICS from the Arab Spring to Moral Monday. Discussion starter by CCDS's Harry Targ.
- PHILOSOPHY OF ABOLITIONISM by Wendell Phillips, with commentary by NOEL IGNATIEV. The essay is part of a larger group, edited for Charles H. Kerr by Ignatiev, The Lesson of the Hour: Wendell Phillips on Abolition and Strategy. The book is available from AK Press. Phillips'radicalism continued after the Civil War to the Paris Commune. Excellent for discussion groups.
- UNITED FRONT, POPULAR FRONT & ELECTIONS. William Z foster in this 1939 132-page booklet, 'Your Questions Answered,' gives insight of the 1930s CP on Politics, Peace, Economics, Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Race Prejudice, Religion, Trade Unionism, Americanism, Democracy, Socialism, Communism.
- ORGANIC INTELLECTUALS. Slide Show on Teaching and Organizing--Gramsci, Arizmendi and Ella Baker. By Carl Davidson.
- INSTRUMENTS FOR DOING POLITICS. A powerful new pamphlet by Marta Harnecker for studying strategy and tactics, and doing revolutionary work in non-revolutionary conditions to change the correlation of forces.
- VIETNAM'S SOCIALIST PATH. Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, during a friendship visit to Cuba and gave a presentation, an 8-page discussion starter.
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM. David Harvey delivers a 45-min lecture summarizing his remarkable book on the topic. It runs on YouTube with background photos.
- THE LAST WHITE ELECTION. Mike Davis in New Left Review does a deep analysis of current U.S. politics. Available as a downloadable PDF,
- Revisiting C. Wright Mill's 'The Power Elite.' Six articles, including one by Mills, discuss the implications of the classic of the 1960s New Left for today. Good for study groups.
- New Frontiers for Socialism in the 21st Century. A downloadable collection of 16 articles from European, Latin American, African and other leaders of today's left parties and groupings. Put together in South Africa, the articles from Brazil, Russia and South Africa are especially fascinating.
- Gramsci and Mao, Compare and Contrast This 1974 article by Nigel Todd, 'Ideological Superstructure in Gramsci and Mao Tse-Tung', is as relevant as ever. It provides an excellent opening to a discussion of the revolutionary role of intellectuals, and developing 'organic intellectuals' in the working class
Karl Marx's ideas are a common touchstone for many people working for change. His historical materialism, his many contributions to political economy and class analysis, all continue to serve his core values--the self-emancipation of the working class and a vision of a classless society. There are naturally many trends in Marxism that have developed over the years, and new ones are on the rise today. All of them and others who want to see this project succeed are welcome here. A PDF flyer file for spreading the word is 
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