Peninsula DSA engages in ongoing political education in socialist history and thought. Theory informs praxis!

Currently Reading

• San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 (2024) by Robert W. Cherny.
• Next meeting: Wednesday, November 13, 7-8pm. We’ll finish our reading of SF Francisco Reds by discussion Chapter 8 (“The Crisis Deepens, 1948-1956”) and Chapter 9 (“The Crisis of 1958-1958, the Collapse of the Old Left, and After”). More info and digital copies available on PDSA’s private Discord on the #reading-group channel

Past Reads

2024

• 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