DSA’s National Political Education Committee (NPEC) has adopted the Socialist Night School (SNS) as a segment of our curriculum development program.
We developed foundational modules to distribute across DSA chapters to both use as core content and as elements to build on. Our revisions and relaunch of our foundational series provided an occasion to assess our facilitation guides.
What you see in this document is a condensation of into a single, easy-to-use preparation and execution guide.
This is the first in a three-part foundational series of Socialist Night Schools (SNS), and is meant to provide an introduction to core insights and materials and some preparatory concepts for the next two sessions, “What is Socialism?” and “Why the Working Class?”
While running the series is preferable, a learner can still get a lot out of “What is Capitalism?” without attending future sessions, and it can be run as a stand alone session, or adapted into a shorter session.
This is the second module in a three-part foundational series. It is meant to advance the learning from the prior session, “What is Capitalism?” and provide further insights, materials, and prompts. The third session, “Why the Working Class?,” goes deeper still.
While running the series is preferable, a learner can still get a lot out of “What is Socialism?” without having attended the prior session, and it can be run as a stand alone session, or adapted into a shorter session.
See “SNS in a box” for the relevant guidance on how to run this session.
This is the third in a three-part foundational series of Socialist Night Schools, and is meant to provide a basis for synthesizing learning from the prior sessions, “What is Capitalism?” and “What is Socialism?” and deepen our understanding of the socialist vision.
While running the series is preferable, a learner can still get a lot out of “Why the Working Class?” without having attended the prior sessions, and it can be run as a stand alone session, or adapted into a shorter session.
See “SNS in a box” for guidance on how to run a Socialist Night School session.