About this episode

August Nimtz discusses 250 years of bourgeois democracy and clarifies misconceptions about Marx, Engels, and Lenin's views on electoralism.

This is a free preview of the episode "250 Years of Bourgeois Democracy w/ August Nimtz" You can listen to the full episode by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/upstreampodcast As a Patreon subscriber you'll get access to bi-weekly bonus episodes ranging from conversations to readings and more. Signing up for Patreon is a great way to make Upstream a weekly show, and it will also give you access to our entire back catalog of Patreon episodes along with stickers and bumper stickers at certain subscription tiers. You'll also be helping to keep Upstream sustainable and allowing us to keep this project going. In this episode, August Nimtz joins us to discuss 250 years of bourgeois democracy. August Nimtz is professor of political science and African American and African studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of many books including The Ballot, the Streets, or Both? From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution , which we had him on to speak about back in 2023, and most recently, Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique . Our conversation begins by revisiting our last conversation with August and…

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Host: Upstream

Guest: August Nimtz

Topics covered

• bourgeois democracy
• political science
• electoralism
• Marxism
• socialism

Keywords

• bourgeois democracy
• August Nimtz
• political science
• electoralism
• Marxism
• socialism
• DSA

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Organizations: University of Minnesota

Books & works: The Ballot, the Streets, or Both?, Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique

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