The Regrettable Century
The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
-- Antonio Gramsci
The Regrettable Century
The Church of the Better Apocalypse
The old world is dying and a new one is being created before our eyes. Thus far, the left has had little if any input into this process. If we don't insert ourselves into the conversation with great haste, a much worse version of our current hellscape will be the outcome. What kind of project will be necessary to salvage the useful pieces of detritus needed to build a better world? To that end, we sat down with our good friend Michael to talk about how to build a better post-apocalyptic world.
The Mask of the Red Death: Dispatch One from a Changing World- Salvage Editorial Board
https://salvage.zone/articles/the-mask-of-the-red-death-dispatch-one-from-a-changing-world/
The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene- Salvage Editorial Board
https://salvage.zone/editorials/the-tragedy-of-the-worker-towards-the-proletarocene/
Under coronavirus, pro market ideologies are overturned around the world, But its too little, too late. - Jeff Sparrow
The world after coronavirus- Yuval Noah Harari
https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?fbclid=IwAR2f2bCCh3iBuc61PT_Nt4zLbthYaPQuodJsg0ee6Qwoocln65faxeK0cpY
A Greater Depression? Nouriel Roubini