Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Each episode of the series will discuss important topics of Marxist political economy.
The video covers the following topics:
-The 4 different value forms
-The 5 functions of money
The next episode will discuss paper money vs gold money, inflation and the necessary amount of money etc.
The textbook
marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PoliticalEconomy.pdf
Other episodes: Communism For Beginners - Basics of ML playlist.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vR4-29AGfaHOYJLnSt3ihF2
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Each episode of the series will discuss important topics of Marxist political economy.
The video covers the following topics:
-The 4 different value forms
-The 5 functions of money
The next episode will discuss paper money vs gold money, inflation and the necessary amount of money etc.
The textbook
marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PoliticalEconomy.pdf
Other episodes: Communism For Beginners - Basics of ML playlist.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vR4-29AGfaHOYJLnSt3ihF2
---------------------------------
My patreon
patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik
My discord
discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK
My blog
mltheory.wordpress.com
My email
TheFinnishBolshevik@gmail.com





![Fiction Book Collection (and some other stuff)
Marxist bookshelf tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de-xDqo0ih0
Good general sources Ive used are:
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (all 3 editions)
R. Palmgren, Kapinalliset kynät [Rebellious pens] (specifically about Finnish literature)
https://mltheory3.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/kapinalliset-kynat-osa-i-raoul-palmgren.pdf
https://communismarchive2.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kapinalliset-kynat-osa-ii-raoul-palmgren.pdf
https://communismarchive2.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kapinalliset-kynat-osa-iii-raoul-palmgren.pdf
Aleksandr A. Smirnov, Shakespeare: A Marxist Interpretation
https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/shakes.htm
Eino Karhu, Suomen 1900-luvun alun kirjallisuus [Finnish literature of the early 1900s]
https://mltheory3.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/suomen-1900-luvun-alun-kirjallisuus-eino-karhu.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrowing_Matchsticks
When father brought home the lamp by Juhani Aho
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(Scandinavian)/When_Father_Brought_Home_the_Lamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1PYdn4_mLY
Irving Stone, Sailor on horseback
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458480/mode/2up
Topelius, Times of Gustaf Adolf (this is the first book, it lists the following ones)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924026331524/page/n7/mode/2up
Franz Mehring, Charles Dickens
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mehring/1912/xx/dickens.html
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![History of the Hungarian People’s Republic (PART 10: Culture Revolution)
Playlist with all the episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS6GirUcyM-53gm0T6f0Kc0
This episode discusses the cultural revolution during the first Five Year Plan (1949-53).
Script:
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-10-revolution-in-culture/
Also see my page on Hungarian revolutionary and progressive art, which is still being updated:
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/art-in-socialist-hungary/
SOURCES:
Jörg K. Hoensch, A history of modern Hungary
Bennett Kovrig, Communism in Hungary: from Kun to Kādār
Rakosi, Report to the Second Congress of the Hungarian Working Peoples Party
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi51.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NASsT6iC8
Eric Roman, Hungary and the victor powers, 1945-1950
Randolph L. Braham, Education in the Hungarian Peoples Republic
Ervin Pamlényi, A History of Hungary*
Marianna Norris, Young Hungary; children of Hungary at work and at play
Rakosi, Speech Delivered at the Election Rally of the Hungarian People’s Independence Front in Budapest on May 10, 1953
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tKnYyOU54
Henrik Vass, Studies on the History of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement (1867-1966)*
Gyula Kállai, The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism
Norman Stone, Hungary: A Short History
David Pryce-Jones, The Hungarian Revolution
Paul Lendvai, The Hungarians
Béla Menczer, A commentary on Hungarian literature
Bennett Kovrig, The Hungarian Peoples Republic
Zinner, The Revolution in Hungary
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
Thomas Aczel & Tibor Meray, The Revolt Of The Mind
Shuster, In Silence I speak
Dezső Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962*
Ernst Helmreich, Hungary
“Culture and education”, on the 1956 institute website
Ágnes Eitlereitler, The “Re-Tuning” of János Aranys Life and Work in the Popular Education of the 1950s
Zoltan Halasz, Unkari: kuvitettu tietoteos [Hungary: an illustrated information book]
János Berecz, 1956 counter-revolution in Hungary: words and weapons*
Paul Ignotus, Hungary
Alan Blackwood, The Hungarian Uprising
Jozsef Revai, Lukacs and Socialist Realism
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.237350/page/n1/mode/2up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdjidNdG5IA
Gábor Rieder, A History of Hungarian Socialist Realist Painting 1949-1956 Ideology and Existence
Wilfred G. Burchett, Peoples Democracies
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch0.htm
Michael Gold, The Worker, N. Y., July 9, 1950
*Pamlényi, Vass, Nemes and Berecz are kadarist historians. Their books contain a lot of good information but also wrongfully slander Rakosi and defend revisionism. You can find their books here under the “Hungary” section:
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/the-real-history-of-the-soviet-union/
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