The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism

This week I thought it would be good to talk about a very important part of revolution - the role of optimism. While it's often easy to fall into doomerism, remaining dedicated, principled, and optimistic is critical to the success of any movement. Let's talk about revolutionary optimism and what it can do for us.

The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Doomerism & Mental Health
https://honeysucklemag.com/understand...
https://www.cnet.com/health/covid-19-...
https://www.nber.org/system/files/wor...
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/...

In government
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02...
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/mi...

Hope & Revolutionary Optimism
https://socialistrevolution.org/the-c...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4467291
   • Mental Health, Eco Despair, & Revolut...   https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.aaihs.org/revolutionary-o... https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-...
https://www.irena.org/Statistics/View...
https://www.csis.org/east-green-china...


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