Name: #121 - "Toward a New Beginning…” & "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party" by Swampside Chats
Duration: 1 h 30 min 48 s
Description: In another installment of our "Not One Step Back" reading series, we discuss two pieces by Hal Draper, "Toward a New Beginning, on Another Road," and "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party."

We are bringing back the Close Reading series. This time we are joined by Constance to tackle a much larger text: Critique of the Gotha Program. We are working off of the new edition published by Spectre. This episode we review the Gotha Program itself and the 1875 letter from Marx to Bracke concerning the "marginal notes" he sent for private circulation.

Letter from Marx to Bracke: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

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In another installment of our "Not One Step Back" reading series, we discuss two pieces by Hal Draper, "Toward a New Beginning, on Another Road," and "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party."

#121 - "Toward a New Beginning…” & "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party"

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#121 - "Toward a New Beginning…” & "The Myth of Lenin's Concept of the Party"

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