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The Regrettable Century - Podcast

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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A Smattering of Unqualified Thoughts About the Election

A Smattering of Unqualified Thoughts About the Election

We recorded an episode, about something else, but in the process we talked about the election for 45 minutes. Here it is!

Keep in mind this episode was recorded as results were coming in on the day a…

00:39:23  |   Tue 10 Nov 2020
PATREON TEASER: Conspiranoia! - Patron Roundtable

PATREON TEASER: Conspiranoia! - Patron Roundtable

Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables. 

For our second Patron roundtable the crew had a well r…

00:08:38  |   Thu 22 Oct 2020
Supreme Leap Backward: Why the Supreme Court is Actually Very Bad (with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward)

Supreme Leap Backward: Why the Supreme Court is Actually Very Bad (with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward)


Steven from The Supreme Leap Forward is back to talk about why the Supreme Court is a regressive, reactionary, and profoundly undemocratic institution that needs to be abolished.

Waiting for SCOTUS
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01:17:39  |   Mon 19 Oct 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part IV (with Red Library)

The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part IV (with Red Library)

This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from Red Library.

We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Becam…

02:06:36  |   Sun 11 Oct 2020
The Role of the Individual in the End of the End of History

The Role of the Individual in the End of the End of History

For all of our claims to be historical materialists, there is nothing that the left loves more than a great leader to guide us to victory. If we are to make history, but not in circumstances of our o…

01:01:06  |   Wed 07 Oct 2020
UNLOCKED: Science Impregnated With History- PART II, Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)

UNLOCKED: Science Impregnated With History- PART II, Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)

This week we have unlocked the second half of our discussion with Phd Candidate Chris Manno. We discussed the differences between objective, subjective, and instrumental reason and how philosophers h…

00:56:47  |   Mon 31 Aug 2020
PATREON TEASER: Everything is Recuperated

PATREON TEASER: Everything is Recuperated

We read an article about recuperation and talked about the concept within the context of the contemporary social unrest that is currently gripping the United States. 

Does every movement for social ch…

00:06:04  |   Thu 27 Aug 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part III (With Red Library)

The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part III (With Red Library)

This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from Red Library, we even had a brief appearance by Kevin.

We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Ench…

02:02:34  |   Mon 17 Aug 2020
Aut Caesar, Aut Christus: Christian Marxism, Liberation Theology, and Catholic Communism (With Mir Bal)

Aut Caesar, Aut Christus: Christian Marxism, Liberation Theology, and Catholic Communism (With Mir Bal)

This week we are joined by Swedish podcaster, activist, social worker, and Christian communist, Mir Bal to talk about Christianity and Marxism. We continue with our unending project of reuniting the …

01:30:28  |   Sun 09 Aug 2020
PATREON TEASER: Science Impregnated With History PART II

PATREON TEASER: Science Impregnated With History PART II

Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear part two of our conversation with Chris! 


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00:08:26  |   Tue 04 Aug 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part II (With Red Library)

The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part II (With Red Library)

This week we are joined once again by Adam from Red Library, but also by fellow Red Librarian Don, who was kind enough to edit the podcast.

We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome …

02:05:37  |   Mon 27 Jul 2020
Science Impregnated With History: Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)

Science Impregnated With History: Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)

We had philosophy Phd Candidate Chris Manno join us for a discussion on Marxism and Reason. We discussed the differences between objective, subjective, and instrumental reason and how philosophers ha…

01:16:48  |   Wed 22 Jul 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part I (with Red Library)

The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part I (with Red Library)

This week we are joined by Adam from the Red Library podcast, who was nice enough to record and edit the episode for us.

We start our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher,…

01:54:31  |   Mon 06 Jul 2020
We Never Learned Anything About Lacan (with Neil of From 78)

We Never Learned Anything About Lacan (with Neil of From 78)

Lacanian psychoanalysis has left an indelible mark on the left, with prominent philosophers like Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou keeping a Marxist Lacanianism relevant... and we don't really know anyth…

01:34:11  |   Tue 30 Jun 2020
The End of Policing?

The End of Policing?

Last week, we read and discussed The End of Policing by Alex Vitale in order to get a better grasp on the history of the police, over-policing, the failure of technocratic reforms, and some of the id…

01:18:48  |   Mon 22 Jun 2020
We Are All Unclean: On Covid Vigilantism and Burning Cop Cars

We Are All Unclean: On Covid Vigilantism and Burning Cop Cars

While we were reading about Covid 19 in Salvage last week, an uprising against police brutality began in Minneapolis. We didn't (don't) know what to make of it yet, but it sure did take over a discus…

00:58:18  |   Thu 11 Jun 2020
Tragedy, Farce, and Apocalypse: The Shambling Corpse of Bonapartism- With C. Derick Varn

Tragedy, Farce, and Apocalypse: The Shambling Corpse of Bonapartism- With C. Derick Varn

We are joined by veteran of the podcast wars, C. Derick Varn, for his third appearance on the show, to talk a little about historical Bonapartism and a little more about contemporary Bonapartism. We …

01:18:12  |   Tue 26 May 2020
A Time of Monsters: More Marxist Theories of Fascism

A Time of Monsters: More Marxist Theories of Fascism

Marxism had always contained within it a multiplicity of variations and is possessed, in equal parts, of the potential to be used for illumination and obfuscation. Nothing more clearly illustrates th…

01:36:33  |   Mon 18 May 2020
The Angel of History: Walter Benjamin, Myth, Rationality, and Modernity-- With Patrick from the Radical Thoughts Podcast

The Angel of History: Walter Benjamin, Myth, Rationality, and Modernity-- With Patrick from the Radical Thoughts Podcast

This week we sat down with Patrick of the Radical Thoughts Podcast to talk about Walter Benjamin and his ideas of myth and rationality, capitalism as religion, and a number of other disconnected thin…

01:19:32  |   Mon 04 May 2020
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