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 

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