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The Regrettable Century

The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.

“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
 -- Antonio Gramsci

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Update frequency
every 5 days
Average duration
53 minutes
Episodes
315
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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Years of Dread: Political Violence & The Spectacle of Tension

Years of Dread: Political Violence & The Spectacle of Tension

Instances of stochastic violence in the United States are at an all-time high and the political violence of our era mirrors the political topography, disaggregated and rudderless. The boys got togeth…

01:10:58  |   Wed 17 Sep 2025
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 09/14/2025

PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 09/14/2025

Newer Dumber Years of Lead, Newer Dumber Cold War Heats Up, Israel Kills Kids in Doha This Time, Europe Can't be Inconvenienced by Sanctions on India and China, Poland Shoots Down Three Slow Moving U…

00:18:26  |   Mon 15 Sep 2025
A Cascading Series of New Lefts (Part I of II)

A Cascading Series of New Lefts (Part I of II)

This week the boys do a close reading of an interview with Terence Renaud wherein he discusses his new book New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition. 

We weigh in on the positive and negative lega…

00:55:51  |   Tue 09 Sep 2025
Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part II of II)

Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part II of II)

Today we read the second half of an article titled Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? Theorizing the nature and implications of the global far-right resurgence by Prof. Dr. Alex Demirović, whic…

00:17:16  |   Thu 04 Sep 2025
Patreon Preview: Anatomy of the Microsect (Patron Roundtable)

Patreon Preview: Anatomy of the Microsect (Patron Roundtable)

We sat down with our patrons to read and discuss the 1973 Hal Draper Pamphlet, Anatomy of the Microsect. https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm

Send us a message (sorry we can't…

00:17:33  |   Wed 27 Aug 2025
Under an Elm Tree: William Morris, Animism, and Anti-Capitalism (Featuring Dr. Mathias Nordvig and Arnold from Fight Like an Animal Podcast)

Under an Elm Tree: William Morris, Animism, and Anti-Capitalism (Featuring Dr. Mathias Nordvig and Arnold from Fight Like an Animal Podcast)

This week, the animist caucus of the Regrettable Century (Kevin) teamed up with Dr. Mathias Nordvig, professor of Nordic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Sacred Flame Podcast, as…

01:43:58  |   Mon 25 Aug 2025
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 08/23/2025

PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 08/23/2025

Bounty on Maduro, Israeli Pedophile Protected by Trump... Again, Palestinian Dead are 83% Civilians, Zelensky in the Whitehouse... Again, Ukraine's Failing Drone Industry, The Inexorable Russian Lava…

00:13:57  |   Sat 23 Aug 2025
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 08/19/2025

PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 08/19/2025

Trump Wusses out on China Tariffs... Again, Leaks Expose Netanyahu's Hunger Plan, Israeli Spies Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Big Tech, The Alaska Summit, Ukraine's Infantry Crisis, Ukraine's Morale Cr…

00:13:47  |   Wed 20 Aug 2025
Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society

Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society

This week the boys are joined by eternal co-host Jess to discuss the novelty of adults being adults. We discuss the self-infantilization of millennials and older zoomers, which is a reflection of the…

01:12:57  |   Mon 11 Aug 2025
Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part I of II)

Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part I of II)

Today we read an article titled Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? Theorizing the nature and implications of the global far-right resurgence by Prof. Dr. Alex Demirović, which was published by …

00:10:47  |   Thu 07 Aug 2025
The Luddites Were Right, Actually

The Luddites Were Right, Actually

Marxist, as well as conservative and liberal bourgeois historians alike, have always had a fundamental misunderstanding about the Luddites. It turns out they weren't just reactionary peasants who fea…

01:02:09  |   Mon 28 Jul 2025
Patreon Preview: Towards the Founding of Something New

Patreon Preview: Towards the Founding of Something New

This week Chris, Jason, and Ben read over the founding document of a now-defunct group to which Jason and Ben used to belong. While much has changed in the years since Jason wrote this document, the …

00:11:04  |   Thu 24 Jul 2025
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 07/18/2025

PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 07/18/2025

Ultra-Orthodox Abandon Bibi, Israel Kills More Christians, Israel Kills a US Citizen, SBU Chief Merc'd in Broad Daylight, The West Slowly Begins to Abandon Ukraine, Zelensky's Authoritarianism, Pokro…

00:14:05  |   Mon 21 Jul 2025
On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part II)

On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part II)

This week the gang tackles Chapter I of Laudato Si, but the late Pope Francis. You can follow along by grabbing the PDF from Verso or from the Vatican website. 

This Papal Encyclical calls for urgent …

01:06:11  |   Tue 15 Jul 2025
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 07/11/2025

PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 07/11/2025

Deep State Don's Pedophile Coverup Extravaganza, More Tariff Idiocy, Israel's Relentless War Crimes Perpetration, Yermak's Power Grab in Kiev, Azerbaijan Mafia/NATO State, Russian Gains, Ukrainian Sy…

00:10:29  |   Sat 12 Jul 2025
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 07/04/2025

PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 07/04/2025

Israel failed to assassinate Khamenei, US lifts some sanctions on Hungary/Russia, Russia controls 100% Luhansk, US cuts off military aid to Ukraine, Azov civil war, the collapse continues...

Send us a…

00:13:14  |   Mon 07 Jul 2025
The Pinnacle of Spectacle: Trump, War, and Opposition in Late Spectacular Capitalism

The Pinnacle of Spectacle: Trump, War, and Opposition in Late Spectacular Capitalism

This week Chris and Jason signed on to give an update on the status of the spectacular nature of American Capitalism. Trump's useless strikes on Iran and false declaration of victory prompted us to r…

01:02:08  |   Wed 02 Jul 2025
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 6/28/2025

PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 6/28/2025

US Attacks Iran... Did It Work?, Iran Tosses out the IAEA, NATO Potemkin Summit, The Inexorable Russian Lava Flow Pushes On, Ukraine Keeps Collapsing...


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00:22:33  |   Mon 30 Jun 2025
On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part I)

On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part I)

Real romantic anti-capitalism hours are back, and this week the boys brought in Mir and Daniel to read Laudato Si by the late Pope Francis, as published by Verso Books (you can read it on the Vatican…

01:06:49  |   Wed 25 Jun 2025
Patreon Preview: The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: (Episode XI) FINAL

Patreon Preview: The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: (Episode XI) FINAL

This is it folks, the second half of Chapter 7 and the grand finale of the reading series.

Go to the Patreon to hear the whole episode. 

Join the Discord to help us determine what's next… 

And Read Alon…

00:20:51  |   Thu 19 Jun 2025
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