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Podcast: Red Flag Radio
Episode: What do socialists say about the state?
Description: 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.Â
Further reading on the capitalist state:
- "What is the Australian State" - by David Peterson in Red FlagÂ
- "Marxism vs. the State" - by Sadia Schneider in Red FlagÂ
Emma and Chloe's summer reading:
Here are the books we talked about at the start of the epi...