Peninsula DSA engages in ongoing political education in socialist history and thought. Theory informs praxis! (See also: PDSA’s recommended media resources.)

Currently Reading

• Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 7-8pm: On the Peninsula DSA Discord, we’ll discuss the first four chapters of Lenin’s Imperialism:

1. Concentration of Production and Monopolies
2. Banks and Their New Role
3. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy
4. Export of Capital.

Past Reads

2025

• ABCs of Socialism by Jacobin + Verso.
• Ideas for the Struggle (2004, revised 2016) by Marta Harnecker.

2024

• San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 (2024) by Robert W. Cherny.
• Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023) by Malcolm Harris.

2023

• The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon.

2022

• How to Read Marx’s Capital (2021) by Michael Heinrich, in tandem with Capital by Karl Marx
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) by Andreas Malm (Ecosocialism WG crossover!)
• The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (2020) by Vincent Bevins
• Why Marx Was Right (2011) by Terry Eagleton

2021

• Capitalism and Class Struggle (2020) by Vivek Chibber, from The ABCs of Capitalism series from Jacobin and Catalyst Journal
• Capitalism and the State (2020) by Vivek Chibber, from The ABCs of Capitalism series from Jacobin and Catalyst Journal
• Understanding Capitalism (2020) by Vivek Chibber, from The ABCs of Capitalism series from Jacobin and Catalyst Journal