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
Podcasts From Nowhere: William Morris' Romantic Marxism
Kevin recently gave a talk about William Morris' transition from romantic anti-capitalism to Marxism and is thus well suited to school us on the subject. We decided to record it and share it with all of you.
How I Became a Socialist (William Morris)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1894/hibs/hibs.htm
Under an Elm-Tree, Or, Thoughts in the Country-Side (William Morris)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1889/commonweal/07-elm-tree.htm
Facing the Worst of It (William Morris)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1887/commonweal/02-facing-worst.htm
William Morris (E.P. Thompson)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1959/william-morris.htm