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
You're Not Making Liberals Socialist, You're Just Making Socialists More Liberal!
This week we discuss why the left allows the liberals to set the tone for its politics.
Liberalism’s Hegemony Over The Left
https://www.counterfire.org/article/liberalisms-hegemony-over-the-left/
Death Sentence For The American Left?
https://damagemag.com/2023/01/25/a-death-sentence-for-the-american-left/
Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/Illumina%20Folder/kell17.htm
Nothing is Any Longer the Opposite of Anything: Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle Today