Stillborn Utopia: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Republic

Episode • Jun 9, 2021 • 1h 4m

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”

https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/12/02/lenin-and-the-class-point-of-view-looking-at-chris-maisanos-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/