This week on Red Library, we bring you part 1 of a very special collaboration with one of our favorite podcasts, The Regrettable Century. We formed a Revolutionary Pessimist Justice League to read through Russell Jacoby's Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism.

We start part 1 (AKA the veritable split in the Hegel book club) discussing the general context of Jacoby's book, critiques of Western Marxism, the logic of success on the Left, lost futures of defeated Marxisms, Hegel, truth and objectivity in political history, and lots more! 

Further Readings/References

• Patreon Page for The Regrettable Century
• Patreon Page for Inside Zero Books (Find Symptomatic Redness Podcast Here)
• Russell Jacoby
• PDF of Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism
• Western Marxism
• Mark Fisher's Lost Futures
• Ben Affleck's Boiler Room Speech on Success
• Herbert Marcuse
• Marxism and Phenomenology
• Wissenschaft
• New Economic Policy (NEP)
• Gorbachev Just Loved Pizza...
• Casuistry
• G.W.F. Hegel
• Young or Left Hegelians
• Right Hegelians
• Marx's 1844 Manuscripts
• Young Marx and the Epistemological Break
• Enver Hoxha
• A Thousand Lost Worlds: Notes on Gothic Marxism
• The Regrettable Century's Episode on Gothic Marxism
• Ernst Bloch
• Guy Debord
• Oswald Spengler
• Barracks Communism

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