Socialist Constitutionalism – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Sat, 26 Nov 2022 07:19:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Socialist Constitutionalism – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Countering the Neoliberal Structural Constitution https://lpeproject.org/blog/countering-the-neoliberal-structural-constitution/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=4513 This post is part of our symposium on socialist constitutionalism. The Federalist Society leverages right-wing legal change by promoting constitutional originalism as a seemingly noble and neutral foundation for neoliberal political economy. Without a comparably accessible and compelling contrary first principle, left and centrist law and politics can appear to be a diffuse agenda of contested...

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]]> The Constitution of Social Progress https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-constitution-of-social-progress/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:30:32 +0000 http://lpeblog.org/?p=3743 This post is part of our symposium on socialist constitutionalism. Willy Forbath has drawn inspiration from the Weimar Republic to envision a socialist constitutionalism that would restructure the economy on a democratic basis. Sam Moyn has argued in response that the left ought to avoid constitutional law, which has usually posed an obstacle to progress, and instead focus directly on the...

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]]> On Socializing the Constitution of Economic Coordination https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-socializing-the-constitution-of-economic-coordination/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:30:35 +0000 http://lpeblog.org/?p=3723 This post is part of our symposium on socialist constitutionalism. Professor Forbath’s essay, drawing from his research into the Weimar Constitution, urges us to reconsider what we mean both by socialism and by constitutionalism. He recovers and makes vivid a socialist vision that is neither about (simply or necessarily) “nationalizing” industry nor only about redistributing the material benefits...

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]]> Socialism Past and Future – or Socialism is Past, and the Future? https://lpeproject.org/blog/socialism-past-and-future-or-socialism-is-past-and-the-future/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:00:23 +0000 http://lpeblog.org/?p=3705 This post is part of our symposium on socialist constitutionalism. Forbath’s timely essay revisits the history of socialism in the hopes of informing a possible future. He calls our attention to the legal ideas and institutions that gave form to social democracy as a compromise between socialism with liberalism. Inspired by this past, Forbath calls for a political economy analysis of...

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]]> The Relevance of Weimar https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-relevance-of-weimar/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:00:10 +0000 http://lpeblog.org/?p=3686 This post is part of our symposium on socialist constitutionalism. Willy Forbath’s return to the Weimar Constitution is inspiring. I will just point out of a couple of limits to turning back to it in the present — limits that strike me as difficult to overcome. First, the Weimar Constitution’s nod to worker empowerment presupposed the structure of the (local and global) economy in 1919...

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]]> Socialism Past and Future (Part II of II) https://lpeproject.org/blog/socialism-past-and-future-part-ii-of-ii/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:00:13 +0000 http://lpeblog.org/?p=3683 This is the second of two introductory posts in our symposium on socialist constitutionalism. In my last post, I began a discussion of the Weimar Constitution as one of the first constitutions containing provisions for social and economic rights (SER), and perhaps the very first one, in which socialists had an important hand drafting and expounding. The literature on constitutional SER misses a...

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]]> Socialism Past and Future (Part I of II) https://lpeproject.org/blog/socialism-past-and-future-part-i-of-ii/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:08:19 +0000 http://lpeblog.org/?p=3680 This is the first of two introductory posts in our symposium on socialist constitutionalism. Socialism is back. But what is socialism? We have forgotten a lot about what it meant in its salad days, a century ago. And what we have forgotten may include what might be compelling today. Universal health care and basic income, public investment in green industry and infrastructure...

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