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# ProvDSA PoliEd Foundational Series Syllabus

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## [Module 1: Conflict Among Comrades](module-1-conflict.html) Tuesday, November 2, 6:30-8 PM ET

Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:

* [Conflict Style Assessment](https://www.usip.org/public-education/students/conflict-styles-assessment)

* [​Rebel Steps episode “Talk it Out”](https://rebelsteps.com/episodes/s2e5-talk-it-out/) (23 min)

* ​​[Excerpt](https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2021/02/14/adrienne-maree-brown-on-cancellation-abolition-and-healing/) from Final Straw Radio episode “adrienne maree brown on Cancellation, Abolition and Healing​"​ (First 15 minutes)

* [​​“How to Argue with Your Comrades”](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/left-arguments-comrades-democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders) by Hadas Thier​,​ Jacobin (7 min)

* [​Excerpts](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wzo6r8NtUgrZvnjDXsHzZp-F5jjyz-VZ0v-IvyHGwNs/edit?usp=sharing) ​from​ Mutual Aid by Dean Spade (10 min)

## [Module 2: Socialism 101](module-2-socialism-101.html) Tuesday, November 9, 6:30-8 PM ET

Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:

* Group A: [Last Week Tonight: Evictions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R652nwUcJRA&t=279s) (19 min)

* Group B: [Last Week Tonight: Meatpacking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhO1FcjDMV4) (19 min)

* ["Democratic Socialism Isn't Social Democracy"](https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/democratic-socialism-social-democracy-nordic-countries) by Michael A. McCarthy, Jacobin (7 min)

* ["How Capitalism Exploits You"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mI_RMQEulw) by Richard Wolff, Gravel Institute (5 min)

* ["The Difference Between Socialism, Communism, and Marxism Explained by a Marxist"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyl2DeKT-Vs) by AzureScapegoat (12 min)

* ["Workshop Talks"](https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1909/talks/shoptlks.htm) by James Connolly (29 min)
 
## [Module 3: Why the working class?](module-3-working-class.html) Tuesday, November 16, 6:30-8 PM ET

Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:

* [“Why the Working Class?”](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/03/working-class-capitalism-socialists-strike-power/) by Vivek Chibber (6 min)

* [Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, Chapter 1](https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/found-c1.PDF), by Erik Olin Wright (25 min) **OR** watch [“Who Counts as Working Class?”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=12AHhpFCDVo) (starting at 40:20)

## [Module 4: Exploitation and Oppression](module-4-exploitation.html) Tuesday, November 23, 6:30-8 PM ET

Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:

* [What's New About Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn't): "Wokewashing" and the Limits of Representation](https://spectrejournal.com/whats-new-about-woke-racial-capitalism-and-what-isnt/), Enzo Rossi & Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Spectre (17 min)

* [Marxism and Intersectionality: An Interview with Ashley Bohrer](https://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/marxism-and-intersectionality-an-interview-with-ashley-bohrer/), George Souvlis & Ashley Bohrer, Salvage (19 min)

* [Fuck Mindfulness Workshops](https://spectrejournal.com/fuck-mindfulness-workshops/), Tithi Bhattacharya, Spectre (7 min) **OR** view [some slides from \@wokescientist on Insta](https://docs.google.com/document/d/19UK98vQqrj8nRBszmDnsu3qsPRGENG-ZkqYfgyH8ASg/edit)

* [Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore – An Antipode Foundation film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS627aKrJI), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (first 6 minutes)

* [What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--gim7W_jQQ) Robin D.G. Kelley, 10:19-23:00 (~13 min)

## [Module 5: Imperialism and Colonialism](module-5-imperialism.html) Tuesday, November 30, 6:30-8 PM ET

Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:

* Group A: *Battle of Algiers* - [Excerpt 1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/16inRQOi5eSHn8Kmb4Bhn9agrghDqC6Oq/view?usp=sharing), [Excerpt 2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17jAp4owH0XfcSNAK23Dh_iR87O7VMjSa/view?usp=sharing)

* Group B: *The Wind That Shakes the Barley*​ - [Excerpt](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YuhooDyoJ8lHjN3f2TvmKINWbm4TbRVw/view?usp=sharing)

* Group C: *Tambien La Lluvia* - [Excerpt 1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/14IW0r882oz6CZTlx8Vs4pY1k3UbGhLpH/view?usp=sharing), [Excerpt 2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vnEj7TrAePYhBDMzDn936t2v2VO_aJNq/view?usp=sharing)

* [Excerpt](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7q9RliFdfo4ikm-ex_6boDOAZqkSbaU/view?usp=sharing) from *The Wretched of the Earth* by Frantz Fanon ​(​pp 1-36, 44-52, 1 hr 12 min​) **OR** RED MENACE: The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon [Part 1] (up to 26:27 to cover Chapter 1 reflections)

* [​​Excerpt](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V1NFwVIrdZiySn4R4EuOebuO_wpGbzAQ/view?usp=sharing) from *As We Have Always Done* by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ​(pp 71-83, 18 min​)​

* [Excerpt](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iVIJ6h1-ch4-iE4jHmCM6TRze9PEm1Auv70n-zI_6hs/edit?usp=sharing) from *The Red Deal* by The Red Nation (10 min)

## [Module 6: Praxis](module-6-praxis.html) Panel Tuesday, December 7, 6:30-8 PM ET

We’ll talk to socialists engaged in mutual aid, electoral work, and base building (labor and tenant organizing). Please [email](mailto:pvdpolied@riseup.net) any questions you have for our panelists prior to class to kick off discussion!