Please join us for DSA's three-part Foundational Political Education series, featuring presentations by Sanjiv Gupta on capitalism, Meagan Day on socialism, and Eric Blanc on class. Combined, these three presentations create a solid foundation for understanding the contemporary world and a possible alternative.

This week, Meagan Day will talk about socialism. What differentiates a socialist society from a capitalist one? How do we determine which governments, policies, and movements deserve to be called socialist in a capitalist world? Day will present on the key features and major pillars of socialist thought that distinguish it from other political traditions, including fascism, liberal capitalism, and social democracy.

Day is an editor at Jacobin Magazine and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Her 2020 book Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, co-authored with Micah Uetricht, is published by Verso. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Republic, n+1, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.

The recommended readings for the event can be found here: https://dsa-education.pubpub.org/pub/what-is-socialism/release/6?readingCollection=dc10735c