Stillborn Utopia: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Republic
The Regrettable Century · Chris, Jason, and Matthew
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Show Notes
We sat down with our old friend, comrade, and fellow veteran of Trotskist hyperactivsm to discuss the concept of the Republic and whether or not is still useful to Marxist organizing/theorizing. The era of the bourgeois republic has been a simultaneous process of creation and destruction, of liberation and enslavement. As the final epoch of human civilization reaches its nadir, do we still have any use for the republic?
The Constitution & The Class Struggle
https://socialistcall.com/2018/11/27/the-constitution-and-the-class-struggle/
Looking at Chris Maisano’s “The Constitution and the Class Struggle”
Fight The Constitution, Demand a New Republic!
https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/03/fight-the-constitution-demand-a-new-republic/
Bill of Rights socialism and the future of the republic
https://www.cpusa.org/article/bill-of-rights-socialism-and-the-future-of-the-republic/
Abolish The States
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/abolish-the-states/
Abolish The Senate
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/abolish-the-senate/
Music: Paul Robeson- John Brown's Body
A Fine Old Conflict Podcast
https://afineoldconflict.buzzsprout.com/
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