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A list of the problems we face on the left

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Thanks to The Social Recession: By the Numbers by Anton Stjepan Cebalo and K-Punk, by Mark Fisher for some of the thinking that inspired this. Also a little Auden quote in Cebalo’s article that caught my eye: “miserable wicked me / how interesting I am.”

Thanks to The Social Recession: By the Numbers by Anton Stjepan Cebalo and K-Punk, by Mark Fisher for some of the thinking that inspired this. Also a little Auden quote in Cebalo’s article that caught my eye: “miserable wicked me / how interesting I am.” This is a list of what I take to be the major problems the anglophone left is facing at the moment. If anyone has any additions, let me know. The existence of this list will make me seem like a curmudgeonly pessimist. Maybe there’s some truth to that, but it’s only half the story. I wouldn’t make a list like this to demoralize people. I…

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