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.
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episode 6: The Broken Bones of Belief: Why They Left the Left
This week the boys got together to talk about political apostasy. From the old left, to the new left, to whatever the hell it is that we have now. We discuss the motivations and consequences of jumping ship.
The Ex-Communist’s Conscience https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1950/ex-communist.htm
Turned Around: Why Leftists Go Right https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/why-leftists-go-right
From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol https://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol_2.html
The Neoconservative Counterrevolution
https://jacobin.com/2015/04/neoconservatives-kristol-podhoretz-hartman-culture-war
How Ex-Communists Shaped American Conservatism https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-ex-communists-shaped-american-conservatism/426849/
Trotskycons https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/06/trotskycons-stephen-schwartz/
The Neoconservative Journey https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817945725_105.pdf
The Legacy of the Trotskyist Right
https://www.toqonline.com/archives/v6n2/SneigoskiTOQV6N2.pdf
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