Marxism Against the Tide of Modernity: Uniting the Promethean and Romantic (PART II) With Donald Parkinson


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Apr 05 2020 61 mins   62
(PART II) The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning. Löwy, Michael, and Robert Sayre. Romanticism against the tide of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. The Word, the Devil, and the Flesh- JD Bernal https://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/ Music: Alyans- Na Zare Cosmonaut Magazine https://cosmonaut.blog/ Cosmopod Podcast https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/ Radical Thoughts Podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/patricks-podcast Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)