diff --git a/burn_the_constitution.md b/burn_the_constitution.md index 3fcffca..ae747b4 100644 --- a/burn_the_constitution.md +++ b/burn_the_constitution.md @@ -12,8 +12,53 @@ that this myth, accepted as fact, would ensure "domestic tranquility." +## What is the Constitution? + +A constitution is a set of fundamental principles and precedents according to which a state or an organization is governed. As a **foundational document**, it outlines the relationship between its subsections, defines how laws are made, what + +## The problems + +### Who were the framers? + +- There is an almost religious devotion to which most citizens hold up both the constitution, and the framers + +- As is the case with any codified document of law or principles, its important to figure out in whose interest it was written. There is no such thing as a neutral political document. +- A class analysis. +- By discovering this, we can go beyond apparantly +- Neutrality + +### Reforming the Constitution + +- Limits of reformism. How does it get changed? Go through history of amendments. Mass struggle, revolts, protests, etc. +- Go through how each clause oppresses workers in some way. +- Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. +- ​ + +## The solution + +- Stop holding a highly flawed and vague document as an infallible religious text. +- Stop glorifying the framers as enlightened beings, when in reality they were the class enemies of the workers then, just as much as now. +- Realize that bourgeois political processes cannot reform the constitution. Improvements only occur when politicians are threatened by violence and instability. + + + + + +## + +## + + + + + Things that were legal, and enforced by the police: - Holocaust - Slavery -- Segregation \ No newline at end of file +- Segregation + +# Resources + +- http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnkin5.html +- ​ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/crash_course_socialism.md b/crash_course_socialism.md index 424ccc5..a7e4957 100644 --- a/crash_course_socialism.md +++ b/crash_course_socialism.md @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni [Why do communists dislike liberals?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/4uaxjf/whats_the_deal_with_communists_hating_liberals/) -[What's the role of the state in the revolution?](https://whyithinkyourewrong.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/) +[What's the role of the state in the revolution, and what is a state?](https://whyithinkyourewrong.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/the-state-and-revolution-an-overview/) [What's the difference between anarchism and communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/576t0d/im_an_anarchocommunist_leninise_me/) @@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni [Is it true that Socialism has killed X million people, and how many has capitalism killed?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/5q2oak/someone_dies_under_socialism_no_matter_how_its/dcvu8lg/) +[Do communists defend the DPRK(Democratic People's Republic of North Korea)? short answer: no.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLDISCOURSE/comments/60voir/lets_talk_about_the_dprk/) + # Resources ## Videos