Category: Education
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Marx’s Capital Study Group
Click here for notes and resources from our members who are meeting regularly to read and discuss Marx’s Capital.
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Debate: How to Relate to the Democratic Party
By Ann Robertson The reason we have arrived at different conclusions about how to relate to the DP stems from the fact that we are operating in fundamentally different frameworks. Our side does not start with the category of the left but with the working class. We do not believe…
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What is Fascism?
As we watched the January 6 attack on the Capitol along with everybody else, we at DSA SF had a foreboding sense of the attack’s present and future implications for the rising tide of fascism. Our chapter is no stranger to anti-fascist organizing, having participated in a local coalition of…
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The Paris Commune: Selected Readings for the 150th Anniversary
The Paris Commune remains a major moment in socialist history and has inspired countless movements for a just society. Click here for selected readings in commemoration of the 150th anniversary.
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Why Capitalism cannot be reformed but must be abolished
By Ann Robertson For lack of time I will not talk about the inherent connection between capitalism and imperialism, racism, sexism, and fascism. I want to begin with the arguments that have been raised in support of capitalism because when it was in its early stages western philosophers were wildly…
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Introducing the 1857 Introduction: Marx’s Method and Why It Matters
Background The Grundrisse is a collection of notebooks Karl Marx wrote in 1857-58. As such, it forms a bridge between his philosophical writings that were heavily influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel from the 1840s and the critique of political economy culminating in the first volume of Capital in 1867. The Grundrisse,…
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Why Capitalism Must Be Abolished
Capitalism is a global system of production and exchange that has expanded to nearly every corner of the world. It is a system that has been revered for its capacity to produce unprecedented amounts of food and wealth in human history. So then why in the richest country in the…
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Socialism and Capitalism Essay
The following is a talk that was written for DSA SF’s monthly Intro to Socialism event. It was first delivered by Taylor B. on November 11, 2020. Socialism and Capitalism I have been asked to talk about socialism and capitalism. So we must ask: What is socialism? What is capitalism?…
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Origins of the Black Panther Party, from the documentary “Berkeley in the Sixties.”
10 minute segment on the origins of the Black Panther Party, from the documentary “Berkeley in the Sixties.” (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Black Panther Party Excerpt from the documentary Eyes on the Prize
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Fred Hampton in Eyes on the Prize
Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. Hampton was assassinated while sleeping at his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook…
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Conrad George Jackson Documentary
George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an African-American activist, Marxist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. Jackson achieved fame as one of the Soledad Brothers and was later shot dead by guards in San…
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