Gothic Marxism and Marxist Romanticism: Embracing All That Makes Us Human (Part I of II)

Wherein we discuss Marxist Romanticism and the gothic strain in Marxism, or "gothic Marxism."

Om Podcasten

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 challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” -- Antonio Gramsci