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 Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment
This week we team up with our pal Jess to talk about the mixed legacy of the enlightenment and we ultimately determine that the enlightenment was good and also it was bad.
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Nielsen, K. (1988) Marx and the enlightenment. Critical Review, 2(4), 59–75.
Hook, S. (1968) The Enlightenment and Marxism. Journal of the History of Ideas,
Music: The Broadways- 15 Minutes