Happiness Industry Socialism

Everyone knows what the happiness industry is, that vapid misapplication of eastern spiritual practice, adapted to help stave off deaths by despair or convince you that alienated depression is the fault of your brain chemistry and not the crushing weight of capitalism. As the contemporary left is little more than liberalism turned up to 11, it should surprise no one to learn that there is a "socialist" version of this as well. We sat down to talk about how it is dumb and bad. How to pronounce schadenfreude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_DjiLLDfo Left-Wing Hypomania https://thebaffler.com/latest/left-wing-hypomania-chaudhary Is socialism winning? https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/12/is-socialism-winning/  National Political Committee newsletter — 85,000 members strong https://www.dsausa.org/news/npc-newsletter-nov2020/ There Was Actually a Lot of Good News for the Left on Election Day https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/downballot-socialist-elected-election-day-dsa Music: Cro Mags- Face the Facts  Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop