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 Regrettable Century
Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia: With Adam from Red Library (Part I)
We read and discussed Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia by Darko Suvin with Adam from Red Library. This incredibly dense book was a wealth of theoretical and historical knowledge about one of our favorite subjects, Yugoslavia. The SFRY defies neat categorization and the more we learn about it the more questions we have about the process of transition to communism, workers' self management, radical democracy, markets, and state socialism. It is the perfect meditative subject for a podcast that continually implores Marxists to stop being so certain of everything.
Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left
From 78 Podcast
Suvin, Darko. Splendour, misery, and possibilities : an X-ray of socialist Yugoslavia. Leiden Boston: Brill, 2016.
A UTOPIA IN THE BALKANS -- CATHERINE SAMARY
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II114/articles/catherine-samary-a-utopian-in-the-balkans
Splendours, Miseries, and Potentialities of Socialist Yugoslavia- The Berlin Thesis
The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism -- James Robertson
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkans