Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago
Recording was taken from the “How Do We Get a New Constitution” session, of which “part 1” was released in the previous episode of Class
Panelists: Amna Akbar, Aziz Rana
The Left’s path to power is blocked by one of the oldest and least democratic founding documents in the world. Will it take a revolution to rewrite our Constitution? The recent Constituent Assembly in Chile may show a way forward.
Amna Akbar is a professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Her popular essays and op-eds have appeared in the venues like the New York Times, New York Review of Books, the Boston Review, The Nation, and Jacobin. She serves on the editorial board of the Law and Political Economy Blog.
Aziz Rana is a professor of law at Cornell University. He is the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom and the forthcoming book, The Constitutional Bind: Why a Broken Document Rules America.
Aziz Rana, “Who Owns the Constitution”, Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/us-constitution-law-supreme-court-socialism
Aziz Rana, “Why Americans Worship the Constitution”, Public Seminar of The New School
https://publicseminar.org/essays/why-americans-worship-the-constitution/
Andre Gorz’s “Reform and Revolution”
https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5272/2173
Paris, May of ’68
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68
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Producer: Elton LK
Logo by Michaela Brangan
Sound Engineer & Opening Music by Casey Sticker
Additional Assistance, including content by Palmer Conrad
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