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
Strasserism, National Bolshevism, and Third Positionism (Part II of II)
We pick up where we left off last week; discussing Russian Nazbols, American Third Positionism, and the re-emphasizing the need to speak with clarity about this topic of dire importance.
Listen to Part II of a II part series, in which we think out loud about the history and politics of fascist anti-capitalism.
https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury
A short list of some of the material referenced for the show:
Payne, Stanley G. A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Lee, Martin A. The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1997.
Coogan, Kevin. Dreamer of the Day : Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn, N.Y: Autonomedia, 1999.
A scholarly article about The National Question and the Communists in Weimar Germany.
https://libcom.org/files/NATIONAL%20BOLSHEVISM%20IN%20WEIMAR%20GERMANY.pdf
The (Now Defunct) Traditionalist Workers Party:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/traditionalist-worker-party
An undercover expose of the Traditionalist Workers Party:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/leaked-a-year-inside-the-failed-neo-nazi-traditionalist-worker-party/
Article about a alt-righters adopting “anti-capitalism”
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-racist-right-looks-left/
Music:
Holocaust by Crisis off of No Town Hall