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Through our political education programming, our chapter aims to encourage a thoughtful and curious approach to socialist practice. On the third Monday of every month, we gather to read something together and have a friendly discussion. These meetings are informal and social in nature, and food is always provided. Our hope is that we can provide a space where people from a variety of backgrounds and political tendencies come to learn more about political theory, current events, and lessons from the global working class movement that can help us become better socialists in our own community.
WANT TO HELP?
The selection of reading material for our political education meetings is determined by our chapter’s Political Education Committee (PEC). Typically, the PEC will first choose a subject for an upcoming meeting, and then select, abridge, and combine together writings based on that choice. All chapter members are welcome to join the PEC!
We want the decisions the PEC makes to be closely connected to the intellectual journeys that chapter members are on. It is therefore helpful for us to know when our members are confused, conflicted, or disturbed by a present or past event or situation, a theoretical question, or point of ideological difference. Help keep us informed about your own journey by filling out this form!
RESOURCES FOR SELF-STUDY
Here we provide for individual use some of the readings we have discussed in past political education gatherings. All readings were chosen for the discussion that they provoked among the chapter membership, not because the views they express are harmonious with the views held by the membership or even by the PEC.
FOR UNDERSTANDING UVDSA
Despite the disclaimer given above, it may be helpful for understanding our chapter’s practice of politics to highlight the writings which had a special role in shaping it. The discussions that we had on the following writings brought us to greater clarity of our place in the community and in this moment in history. We still caution against drawing immediate conclusions about what we believe based on any position expressed by even these writings.
Building DSA as an Organization of Organizers by Tiffany B.
Dead Generations and Unknown Continents: Reflections on Left Unity by Salar Mohandesi
Class Against Class by Tim Goulet
Tenant Power is Proletarian Power by Justin G, Nick W, and Sarah M
On Depoliticization by Asad Haider
Spadework by Alyssa Battistoni
Socialists Think by Asad Haider
Goodbye Revolution? by Tim Horras
FOR UNDERSTANDING HISTORY
Sometimes, we prepare gatherings which are aimed specifically at understanding a moment or period in history better. Even when these writings are mainly expositional, they always contain a latent ideological bias. Read critically!
Abridgement of Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win by J. Smith and André Moncourt
Abridgement of Italy, Gladio 1970s-1980s by Dario Azzellini
Compiled Overview of American Labor and Socialist History, 1860-1917
Abridgement of The US Labor Movement Since 1955 by Adam Barrington
Understanding the Luddites in the age of AI by Brian Merchant
PERSPECTIVES, PAST AND PRESENT
Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type by Vijay Prashad
Socialism and Nationalism by James Connolly
Party as Articulator by Salar Mohandesi
Reclaiming the Palestinian Subject by Olivia Katbi Smith & Dylan Saba
Excerpt from PFLP's Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine (1969)
Connecting American Tenancy With Palestinian Struggle by Zhirabor
Abridgement of Queer Workerism Against Work by Kade Doyle Griffiths
Nonviolence and Social Change by Martin Luther King Jr
How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda by Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare
No War but the Class War by Marvin G
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth by Michael Löwy, Bengi Akbulut, Sabrina Fernandes and Giorgos Kallis
Our Road to Power by Vivek Chibber
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