05/17/2026 Marxism 101 Session 2: Imperialism and the Theory of the State
Start: 2026-05-17 12:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
End: 2026-05-17 15:00:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
Event Type:
Virtual
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.
Host contact info steering@dsanc.org
Join Triangle DSA for our introduction to Marxism! We will be covering the whole series virtually over three Sundays in May, 12:00 - 3:00 pm: May 10, May 17, May 31.
Readings and study guides can be found here. All participants will receive a zoom link after RSVPing.
This curriculum will provide all chapter members a baseline understanding of Marxism. We’ll cover the basics of Marxist political economy and praxis. The purpose of the curriculum is to enable all our members to begin to feel comfortable engaging in robust and informed political dialogue with their comrades in DSA as we work together to build the working class movement that will achieve socialism.
This second session will take up Lenin’s extension of Marxism to the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. We will take up Lenin’s theory of imperialism and the task of the revolutionary proletariat.
This session covers the material we usually cover in the fourth and fifth sessions of the course: imperialism and the Marxist theory of the state and the revolutionary task of the proletariat.