Hello and welcome to revolutions.

Episode 11.10, Red Justice, Red Freedom.

We left Mars as an increasingly pressurized powder keg ready to explode into one of the most

famous revolutionary events in human history, the three days of red. But as we stand on the

precipice of that world's historical moment, I need to bring us up to speed on two vital

components of that revolutionary event. The first component is ideological, because we've spent

a lot of time laying out why the Martians of 2247 felt aggrieved, mistreated, abused, frustrated,

and angry, all of which would drive and sustain their insurrection. But we have not talked much

about why the climax of the three days of red would be a declaration of independence.

So first today, we're going to talk about the development of independence as an idea and how it became the ultimate goal of the revolution.

The other component will complete the revolutionary coalition, because while the Martians doing things on Mars is obviously at the

center of the story, the spaceshipers doing things in space really takes the dream of independence

and makes it a reality. So we need to head back out to space to properly fold the spaceshipers

into the revolutionary mix. As we discussed in episode 11.3, the idea of Martian independence was first broached

around the time of the Martian centenary and then carried into the Martian Way cultural movement

of the 22-teens and 2220s. The Martian Way embraced the idea that Martians were a people

as such, distinct from earthlings. And it's not inaccurate

to say they were essentially reinventing the pre-corporate ideology of nationalism and applying it to

themselves. We are different from you. We deserve self-determination. The idea of Mars for the

Martians became an abstract aspiration gestured at in several songs and vids and posts from the era.

Then Jose de Petrov took these gestures and spelled them out explicitly in his forces of history,

which as I said became an er-text of Martian independence.

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