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Providence DSA Political Education Committee 2021 Foundational Series Syllabus
Module 1: Conflict Among Comrades Tuesday, November 2, 6:30-8 PM ET
Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:
Rebel Steps episode “Talk it Out” (23 min)
Excerpt from Final Straw Radio episode “adrienne maree brown on Cancellation, Abolition and Healing” (First 15 minutes)
“How to Argue with Your Comrades” by Hadas Thier, Jacobin (7 min)
Excerpts from Mutual Aid by Dean Spade (10 min)
Module 2: Socialism 101 Tuesday, November 9, 6:30-8 PM ET
Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:
Group A: Last Week Tonight: Evictions (19 min)
Group B: Last Week Tonight: Meatpacking (19 min)
“Democratic Socialism Isn’t Social Democracy” by Michael A. McCarthy, Jacobin (7 min)
“How Capitalism Exploits You” by Richard Wolff, Gravel Institute (5 min)
“The Difference Between Socialism, Communism, and Marxism Explained by a Marxist” by AzureScapegoat (12 min)
“Workshop Talks” by James Connolly (29 min)
Module 3: Why the working class? Tuesday, November 16, 6:30-8 PM ET
Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:
“Why the Working Class?” by Vivek Chibber (6 min)
Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, Chapter 1, by Erik Olin Wright (25 min) OR watch “Who Counts as Working Class?” (starting at 40:20)
Module 4: Exploitation and Oppression 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, Enzo Rossi & Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Spectre (17 min)
Marxism and Intersectionality: An Interview with Ashley Bohrer, George Souvlis & Ashley Bohrer, Salvage (19 min)
Fuck Mindfulness Workshops, Tithi Bhattacharya, Spectre (7 min) OR view some slides from @wokescientist on Insta
Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore – An Antipode Foundation film, Ruth Wilson Gilmore (first 6 minutes)
What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter? Robin D.G. Kelley, 10:19-23:00 (~13 min)
Module 5: Imperialism and Colonialism Tuesday, November 30, 6:30-8 PM ET
Study materials to be reviewed / completed prior to class:
Group B: *The Wind That Shakes the Barley* - Excerpt
Excerpt 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
Excerpt from As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (pp 71-83, 18 min)
Excerpt from The Red Deal by The Red Nation (10 min)
Module 6: Praxis 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 any questions you have for our panelists prior to class to kick off discussion!