The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-29
SHOP NUCLEUS
TRAINING CLASS
THURSDAY NIGHT
Also Four Other Glasses
at N. Y. Workers School

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at N. Y. Workers School
New York, Nov. 2S.-Perhaps the
most important course of the five at
the Workers School is the Fundamen-
tails of Leninism (Shop Nucleus Train
ing Course), instructor, Jack Stachel.
This course will train one worker OF
each shop nucleus, preferably the or
ganizer, to lead political discussions
in his shop nucleus. The shop nucleus
will select the comrade to take the
training course, exact attendance from
him and pay his fee. The course will
combine the Fundamentals Of Lenin-
ism" and PARTY Organizational Prob
lens, the outline being approximately
as follows:
1. Capitalist wage slavery-The sys-
tenn under which we live.
2. Imperialism, present dominant
form of capitalism-Th last stage of
capitalism.
8. The breach in the imperialist
front and the epoch of social revolu-
J ton.
A. The Communist order Of society
The abolition of the contradictions
of capitalism and the emancipation of
the workers.
5. The dictatorship Of the proletariat
The unavoidable prerequisite of the
struggle for Communism.
6. Proletarian dictatorship and the
allies of the revolution-Colonies and
the peasantry.
7. International party of the proleta-
riat-The road to the dictatorship OF
the proletariat.
8. The party and the masses.
8. Structure and organizational
problems of the party-Shop nuclei
street nuclei, shop committees, etc.
10. Special campaigns of the party
Electoral campaigns, Soviet Russia,
recruiting campaigns, Communist
press.
II. The work Of the shop nucleus.
a. Work Of the different officers.
b. The shop paper.
c. Legal and illegal methods.
d. How the nucleus brings the
party into the shops.
e. How the nucleus mobilizes the
masses for the party cam
paigns.
IL. Problems Of Bolshevization.
In addition to meeting the needs of
our educational work in line with the
party's program of Bolshevization. the
Shop Nucleus Training Course" will
also serve to maintain a steady per-
sonal cnotact with each of the shop
nuclei through its best representative
the one chosen by the nucleus to
take the course and be the leader IN
the nuclei educational work The nue.
leus members will therefore have a
direct means of bringing any special
problems in the shop directly to the
attention of the party higher commit
tees for solution. Thus the shop nue.
leus training course will help in the
function of the nuclei.
MARKHAM Economics, instructor, ].
Minded, will take up the different
schools of economics and then con
slider the fundamental elements of
MARKHAM economics. This course is
preparatory to a second course in the
Economics of the Era of Financial
Capital and Monopoly 1t takes up
all the classic concepts of MARKHAM
economics. An interesting feature,
seldom or never treated in course in
MARKHAM economics in the United
States, is the study of the concentra-
tion Of capital in agriculture and the
general economics of the agrarian
problem.
The fundamentals of Communism.
instructor, Geo. Siskind, is a course
particularly designed for new entrants
into the party and those who may
have been in the party for many years
but not had the time to get funda-
mental training. The second section
Of the course includes such topics as:
the Dictatorship of the proletariat. So
ciety under Communism, relation to
the party, to its leaders and to the
masses, relation to socialist and bour-
geoisie revolutions, etc.
Class in Russian Language
The Russian Language Course is
also announced. The purpose of the
course is to train selected group to
read certain literature in Russian
which is not available in other Ian
guages.
Finally, there will begin course
entitled: The Social Interpretation of
Modern Literature, instructor, Eli b.
Jacobson. This course aims to provide
critical survey Of the most important
works in modern literature. analysing
their special significance and attempt
ing to estimate them from Com
munist viewpoint The novel, drama,