This week we continue our series on republicanism and Marxism by discussing the complicated legacy of the American Revolution. Like the bourgeois project as a whole, the historical consequences of the American Revolution have had mixed results. Simultaneously spurring on the cause of human freedom and stifling it, the American Revolution was pregnant with a creative and destructive spirit. As the American Empire appears to be in decline, we ask whether or not things could have gone, or could still go, in another direction.
Check out Matthew and Jason's Podcast: A Fine Old Conflict
https://afineoldconflict.buzzsprout.com/
War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century
https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/domenico-losurdo-war-and-revolution-rethinking-the-twentieth-century.pdf
Historical Revisionism and Delegitimation of the Revolutionary and Anticolonial Tradition—A Review of War and Revolution
https://sci-hub.se/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21598282.2016.1172752
Liberals and Reactionaries
http://www.leninology.co.uk/2011/10/liberals-and-reactionaries.html
From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/07/inde-j03.html
THE MYTH OF THE “CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION”
https://socialistworker.org/2011/12/14/myth-of-the-conservative-revolution
Communist and Neo-Babouvist readings of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
https://www.academia.edu/38110441/_Communist_and_Neo_Babouvist_readings_of_the_Enlightenment_and_the_French_Revolution_in_E_Vallance_ed_Remembering_Early_Modern_Revolutions_London_Routledge_2018