Basic Education for New Members is an eight-class introduction to the League’s understanding of social change, the revolutionary process, the new class created by labor-replacing technology, race in America, communism, fascism and the role of the League.

Table of contents

1. Understanding the Process of Change
2. The Revolutionary Process
3. The Reality We Face
4. Our New Class, Our New Ideas
5. Race in America: A Changing, but Central Question
6. New Class and Communism
7. Fascism and the Role of the State
8. The League

Introduction

The course begins from the idea that today’s transformation is qualitatively different from earlier periods of reform. Digital production increasingly requires little or no human labor, creating new social forces and disrupting institutions built around industrial wage labor. The course asks members to study those objective changes and the political tasks that arise from them.

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