Political Education
poled@salemdsa.org
We are the Political Education working group. We seek to educate our members and the public on Socialism, Politics, and Strategy. Through educating ourselves on history and theory we can inform our practice in fighting for a better world. Below is our current projects & a useful Library we have compiled.
What is Socialism?
Neal Meyer, “What Is Democratic Socialism?”
Ramsin Canon, “What It Means to Be a Marxist”
Nivedita Majumdar, “Why We’re Marxists”
Various Authors, “The ABCs of Socialism”
Albert Einstein, “Why Socialism?”
Joseph M. Schwartz, “A History of Democratic Socialists of America 1971-2017”
Class and Societal Structure
Hal Draper, "Why the Working Class?”
Vivek Chibber, “The ABCs of Capitalism”
Michael Zweig, “Six Points on Class”
Karl Marx, “Bourgeois and Proletarians”
Karl Marx, “Wage Labor and Capital”
Labor and Labor Organizing
Jane Slaughter, “The Rank-and-File Strategy for Everyone”
Jane McAlevey, “Everything Old Is New Again”
Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Barbara Ehrenreich, “What is Socialist Feminism?”
Jeremy Cohan and Ben Serby,“From Gay Rights to Queer Liberation”
Paul Heideman, “Socialism and Black Oppression”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Martin Luther King Jr’s Radical Anti-Capitalism”
Advanced Reading
Peter Camejo, “Liberalism, Ultraleftism, or Mass Action”
Hal Draper, “The Two Souls of Socialism”
Rafiki Morris, “On Opportunism”
V.I. Lenin, “‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An Infantile Disorder”
How To Get Involved
Feel free to attend a meeting or an event!
Contact us at the email above!