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 5: Happiness Industry Socialism
Everyone knows what the happiness industry is, that vapid misapplication of eastern spiritual practice, adapted to help stave off deaths by despair or convince you that alienated depression is the fault of your brain chemistry and not the crushing weight of capitalism.
As the contemporary left is little more than liberalism turned up to 11, it should surprise no one to learn that there is a "socialist" version of this as well.
We sat down to talk about how it is dumb and bad.
How to pronounce schadenfreude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_DjiLLDfo
Left-Wing Hypomania
https://thebaffler.com/latest/left-wing-hypomania-chaudhary
Is socialism winning?
https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/12/is-socialism-winning/
National Political Committee newsletter — 85,000 members strong
https://www.dsausa.org/news/npc-newsletter-nov2020/
There Was Actually a Lot of Good News for the Left on Election Day
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/downballot-socialist-elected-election-day-dsa
Music: Cro Mags- Face the Facts