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
On Liberal Socialism: Results and Prospects
This week Jason and Kevin discuss the Liberal Socialism; what it is, where it comes from, its impact on the development of the left, its prospects, and its limitations.
What Is Liberal Socialism?
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-liberal-socialism/
The Idea of a Liberal Socialism
https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-idea-of-a-liberal-socialism
Liberal Socialism Now
https://aeon.co/essays/the-case-for-liberal-socialism-in-the-21st-century
Toward A Liberal Socialism?
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/toward-a-liberal-socialism/
Socialists Don’t Want to Destroy Liberalism. We Want to Go Beyond It.
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/socialism-liberalism-marx