What is the state? An overgrown behemoth, a neutral arbiter, a tool of the ruling class? In our first episode for 2024, Chloe and Emma explain the Marxist theory of the state. We also chat about what we read over the break.
Further reading on the capitalist state:
- "What is the Australian State" - by David Peterson in Red Flag
- "Marxism vs. the State" - by Sadia Schneider in Red Flag
Emma and Chloe's summer reading:
Here are the books we talked about at the start of the episode:
- "The State and Revolution" by V.I. Lenin: https://shop.redflag.org.au/products/state-and-revolution?_pos=2&_psq=state%20and%20&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=34797667581997
- "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike" by Barbara Kingsolver
- Georgy Plekhanov on Marxism and Philosophy: "The Development of the Monist View of History" https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/monist/index.htm
Gaza Solidarity Camp at the University of Sydney
The Movement for Palestine in Australia (+ the gender pay gap)
Mardi Gras was a riot! - with '78er Diane Fieldes
The class struggle in Argentina
How South African apartheid was ended
Why the mainstream media are pro-Israel propaganda + the return of Australian refugee-bashing
School students strike for Palestine! + explaining the rise of the far right
How we ended the Vietnam War - with Diane Fieldes and Allen Myers
Palestine and the Myth of a Two-State Solution
The war on Gaza and the origins of Israel
Racism and the Voice Referendum - An interview with Jordan Humphreys
Why socialists support a free Palestine
The System Behind Sexism
Indigenous Liberation and Socialism - part 2
Interview: Mint My Desk Workers United!
Indigenous Liberation and Socialism - Part 1
The revolutionary life and ideas of Karl Marx, with Rick Kuhn
The housing crisis - part 2
The housing crisis in Australia with Martin Barker - part 1
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