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 Centuryhttps://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 Revolutionhttps://sci-hub.se/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21598282.2016.1172752 Liberals and Reactionarieshttp://www.leninology.co.uk/2011/10/liberals-and-reactionaries.html From Karl Marx to the Fourth of Julyhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/07/inde-j03.htmlTHE 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 Revolutionhttps://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 Support the show