Hi everyone,

Please skim the below curriculum and look at the materials. If you are familiar with them. Please provide discussion questions, and quiz questions/answers if you are comfortable.

Let me know if you have any feedback.

Significantly Censored Curriculum:

  • Baby Steps
    • Lesson 1 - Why Socialism?
    • Lesson 2 - Autobiography of a Slave (Ch. 1-6)
    • Lesson 3 - Autobiography of a Slave (Ch. 9-10)
    • Lesson 4 - Autobiography of a Slave (Ch. 11-A)
  • Core Lessons
    • Essential Theory
      • Lesson 1 - Communist Manifesto Part 1
      • Lesson 2 - Communist Manifesto Part 2
      • Lesson 3 - Communist Manifesto Part 3
    • Organizing Basics
      • Lesson 4 - The Study Group
      • Lesson 5 - Scrum
      • Lesson 6 - I’m leaving this part out for now
    • Communication Basics
      • Lesson 7 - Handling Conflict
    • Essential History
      • Lesson 8 - Imperialism
      • Lesson 9 - Suppressing Communism
    • Core Skills
      • Lesson 10 - Field Medicine
      • Lesson 11 - First Aid
      • Lesson 12 - Bushcraft
    • Imperial Manipulation
      • Lesson 13 - Sun Tzu - Art of War
      • Lesson 14 - Information Warfare
      • Lesson 15 - Counter-Psychological Warfare
  • Intermediate Lessons
    • Critical Theory
      • Lesson 16 - Re-reading Frederick Douglass
    • The Counter Revolution
    • Critical Thinking
    • Communication

… completely censored here on out.

Materials for the above curriculum:

  • Albert Einstein - Why Socialism
  • Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - Communist Manifesto
  • Frederick Douglass - Autobiography of a Slave
  • J. Katsfoter - The Study Group
  • Scrum Guide
  • Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse
  • Michael Hudson - Super Imperialism
  • Vincent Bevins - The Jakarta Method
  • Survival Medicine for when help is not on the way
  • USMC First Aid 🇺🇸
  • Bushcraft
  • Sun Tzu - Art of War
  • Alexander Kott - Information Warfare 🇺🇸
  • V.L. Artemov - Psychological Warfare

Meta:

Extra:

I discovered @Cowbee@lemmy.ml’s course when trying to look back and find the reading group discussions on Hexbear. I wasn’t able to find it. Maybe I can restart the study group on Hexbear in order to test out the curriculum?

I am going to steal a significant amount of Cowbee’s work as I go forward. I’ll especially take their checkpoint questions as a basis for discussion questions.

For Cowbee, my work here is intended to be an offline accessible curriculum. Downloaded pdfs, etc.

Cowbee also had restrictions on being concise for the sake of readers. My goal is to provide a survivable comprehensive resource in a single package. From my perspective, it’s okay if people don’t make it through all of the material. They just need the core skills, and to know where to look if they need to have more specialized skills. The curriculum has to also be ordered in a logical way to support development.

Cowbee’s is also directed at self-learning. Mine is intended as a guide for someone to lead a study-group.

I intend to do things slightly differently, the beginner baby-steps section cover topics that can help bring non-radicalized people over. Topics that lay the groundwork of the principles and values that we share, without going too hard on Marxism that people are pushed away.

I think Frederick Douglas’ autobiography perfectly captures the social harms of capital, the power of education, the consequences of reactionary ideology, and the struggle for emancipation. It’s a really strong shoe in for Marxism - while not mentioning it at all.

I think I will start to pull your content into core lessons. I’m excited to see what you have in the works for the advanced course.

  • Cowbee [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    Hey, super cool to make this! One thing I want to say is that we never had a Hexbear study group for my list, I ran one for Capital for 2025 but never for my own list. My own list is too biased to really be pushed on a “left-unity” site, at least IMO, but I’ll point people to it if they want something like it.

    As for my list being focused on self-study, that’s half-true. There’s actually someone over on Lemmygrad.ml that runs a reading group (with modifications) for their comrades in real life, which is awesome! So the list can be used for group study, but I wanted to make sure it can above all also be used individually.

    Super cool project, and I hope it works out! I recommend going with .epubs where you can, to make the file as small as possible, which can help enormously with distribution, but I don’t know what specifics you may have in mind. Good luck!

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Protagonist of the show “May I ask for one final thing” has a protagonist called Scarlet who beats the shit out of slavers with her fists. The other show is “Shield Hero” and begins with him immediately becoming a slave owner.

        Both have similar claims to the world treating them like shit. Scarlet reacts by becoming based, Shield Hero reacts by becoming more of a reactionary asshole.

      • theturtlemoves [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        The manifesto is a revised version of Principles of Communism. It is much more focused on the specific issues of the time, and is therefore much longer. Also, the Principles of Communism is in the form of 35 questions and answers, making it easier to read and answering the most common doubts that readers would have.