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Left wing melancholia6/24/2023 ![]() … What emerges is a Left that operates without either a deep and radical critique of the status quo or a compelling alternative to the existing order of things. ![]() We come to love our left passions and reasons, our analyses and convictions, more than we love the existing world that we presumably seek to alter with these terms or the future that would be aligned with them. I follows that a real return to the question of organisation can only take place if we escape this melancholic mechanism I propose that the very idea of organisation might offer us theoretical resources with which to do so. My argument identifies not one but two left-wing melancholias, the specular relation between which precludes the work of mourning and deprives us of the conditions for thinking organisation concretely. This paper weaves together two recurring themes in philosophical and political debates of recent years: the idea, loosely inspired by Walter Benjamin, that describes melancholia as a dominant structure of feeling and desire among the left and the suggestion that we are currently witnessing a revival of debates on the question of organisation. ![]()
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