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 Marxist salvage project capable of putting up a good fight as the world burns around us. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury
episode 17: The Dialectic of Degrowth: Socialists and the Burden of Ecological Disaster
We think degrowth is going to be necessary, but we also think the debate about degrowth has been all wrong. We read the newest issue of Monthly Review and had a discussion about the politics of degrowth.
Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human Development
https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/planned-degrowth/
Nine Theses on Ecosocialist Degrowth
https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/nine-theses-on-ecosocialist-degrowth/
(Here’s the whole issue)
https://monthlyreview.org/product/mr-075-03-2023-07/
Music: Bad Religion- Watch it Die