Political Education

We cannot build a world we cannot yet imagine, and we cannot fight a system we do not fully understand. Political education is not a supplement to organizing; it is organizing. The Flint Hills DSA's political education program is designed to develop the critical consciousness, historical knowledge, and theoretical grounding that make our organizing more effective, more coherent, and more radical.

Our political education work takes many forms. Our monthly book club, the Flint Hills Socialist Book Club, brings members together to read and discuss works spanning Marxist theory, labor history, feminist and anti-racist politics, decolonial thought, and more — creating space for the kind of sustained, collective intellectual engagement that transforms how we see the world. We curate lists of podcasts and vides that make socialist ideas accessible to everyone. Film screenings and documentary discussions connect political theory to lived experience, grounding abstract ideas in the concrete histories of working-class struggle.

We draw on a broad tradition, from the labor education movements of the early twentieth century to the Freedom Schools of the Civil Rights era to the popular education methodology of Paulo Freire, understanding that real political education is not transmission from expert to student, but a dialogical process in which people develop critical consciousness through collective reflection on their own conditions and experiences. Our political education program is built for working people, by working people, and it is open to anyone willing to engage honestly with the questions our moment demands.