Don't Be So Upbeat!
August 5, 2020
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as posted by the channelIn this video, David Swift expresses his pessimism about protest politics and specifically takes up the ideas in Sam Moss' 1939 essay "The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group." David's book, "A Left For Itself," is the first full-length analysis of the rise of left-wing hobbyists, performative radicals and the 'Identity Left', A Left for Itself interrogates the connection between socio-economic realities and politico-cultural views and boldly asks what is a worthy politics, one for the follower count or one for effecting change.
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A Left For Itself by David Swift
We Bet the House on Left Populism — and Lost by Anton Jager
The Tyranny of Decorum Helped Sink Bernie by David Sirota
The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group by Sam Moss (1939)
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