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
Much Ado About PATSOCS: Finding a Better Way to Talk About Working Class Patriotism
The Patsocs are coming, the Patsocs are coming!
There has been much fruitless discourse and claims of rising fascism among the keyboard proletarian vanguard about the problem of Social Patriotism. We got the original gang back together to talk about what the appropriate level for freaking out about it on the internet is.
There is no contradiction between patriotism and socialism
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/there-no-contradiction-between-patriotism-and-socialism
Is There a Place for Patriotism on the Left?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/patriotism-left-nationalism/
Democratic Socialism Must Be Internationalist
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalism
In Defense of U.S. Proletarian Patriotism
https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/in-defense-of-us-proletarian-patriotism-a-comradely-response-to-danny-haiphongs-marxist-polemic-on-patriotic-socialism-by-kayla-popuchet
British Communism’s Patriotic Disease
https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/british-communisms-patriotic-disease
The Case for a Left Patriotism
https://www.thebellows.org/the-case-for-a-left-patriotism/