People's History of Ideas Podcast From Russia with Organizational Expertise: The Comintern Comes to China
Apr 24, 2020
Gregory Voitinsky, a Comintern organizer, arrives in China in 1920 and helps found the Communist Party. The podcast explores the influence of the Russian Revolution on China and the establishment of the Communist International. It also discusses Lenin's interpretation of Marx's 'Capital', commodity fetishism, and the importance of breaking free from capitalist thinking.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Chinese Laborers in Russia: From World War I to the Russian Revolution
02:02 • 2min
Early Efforts of the Comintern in China
03:33 • 11min
Lenin's Ideas on Party Organization and Marxist Theory
14:38 • 3min
Exploring the Labor Theory of Value and Lenin's Perspective on Capital
17:09 • 8min