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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Traverso, Enzo. 2021. Revolution : An Intellectual History. London ; New York: Verso.
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Support the showepisode 15: Podcasts From Nowhere: William Morris' Romantic Marxism
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