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
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 315
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Intro to Ernst Bloch (with Jon Greenaway aka thelitcritguy)
This week we are joined by Jon (thelitcritguy of HorrorVanguard fame) to discuss his new book A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch which was just released on Zer…
Internet Psychobabble and its Consequences (Have Been a Disaster for the Human Race)
This week we sat down with our old comrade and actual Psychiatrist, Dr Byron, to talk about mental health, the left, and how TikTok is ruining everyones brains.
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory…
Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part III)
Jason and Varn are joined again by Sean KB of Antifida and continue with their close reading of The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin.
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Patreon Preview -- Disaster Nationalism
This month we return to Richard Seymour's essay about the new forms of nationalism. At this point the essay is a few years old, so we were able to discuss how things have developed since it was writt…
The Broken Bones of Belief: Why They Left the Left
This week the boys got together to talk about political apostasy. From the old left, to the new left, to whatever the hell it is that we have now. We discuss the motivations and consequences of jumpi…
Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: The Nature of American Conservatism
This week Jason and Varn sat down to have a primer discussion about the different types of American Conservatism. Don't worry, we will be back later this month with more Dugin.
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Patreon Preview -- Revolution by Enzo Traverso: Regrettable Book Club (Part VII: FinaIe)
Welcome to our seventh and FINAL reading group episode on Revolution: An Intellectual History, by Enzo Traverso. We had a lot of fun with this series and will be starting a new one soon. Head on ove…
One Plus One Is Three: The Poverty of "Third Campism"
As recovering Third Campists ourselves, we sit down to discuss the lingering problems that the third camp of Trotskyism has always had and how they are much dumber in their contemporary incarnation.
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UNLOCKED -- Victorious February: Lessons from the Czechoslovak Revolution (Czechoslovak Socialism Part I of III)
This is a Patreon episode that we recorded in April of 2022. We decided to post this on our main feed at the request of several of our patrons who said more people should hear it.
Continuing in the s…
Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part II)
Jason and Varn continue with their close reading of The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin.
**This is a 30m preview of a 3 hour long episode**
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Preview -- From 78: Jason's Talk with Neil of Inform:Podcast
This episode of InForm:Podcast is a re-release and cross-post of an older interview done with From78 (of Lost Horizons fame). It was originally posted several lifetimes ago, in 2020, but has been re-…
The Boys Solve the Israel-Palestine "Conflict"
Not really, but we do talk about the history of Zionism as a settler colonial project.
Pappe, Ilan. “The Framing of the Question of Palestine by the Early Palestinian Press: Zionist Settler-Coloniali…
Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas (Episode 0)
Varn and Jason discuss this new collaborative project "Boundless and Bottomless Seas" and discuss why talking about Dugin and his Fourth Political Theory is worth doing. This is episode was recorded …
Wally B as a Vibe: Discussing Walter Benjamin with the Subjective Conditions Podcast
This week we've got a podcast that we recorded with Subjective Conditions a few months ago. This podcast deals with Walter Benjamin as a vibe and, in true Regrettable Century fashion, the discussion …
Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part I)
Sean KB from the Antifada joins Jason and Varn for a new series that examines the work of right wing thinkers. This week they are discussing the first chapter of Alexander Dugin's, 'The Fourth Poli…
Patreon Preview -- Revolution by Enzo Traverso: Regrettable Book Club (Part VI)
This preview is from our sixth reading group episode on Revolution: An Intellectual History, by Enzo Traverso. This week we discuss different conceptions of freedom, liberation, and the liberation o…
No Royal Road: Class Conflict and The Crisis of Feudalism (Part III)
This week we continue our series reading from Rodney Hilton's collection of essays about the Crisis of Feudalism. These are pretty short essays, but we will no doubt be talking about them forever.
Hil…
PATREON PREVIEW- Bonapart III: The One Where We Talk About the Movie
Head on over to our Patreon to hear us discuss the Napoleon movie with our comrade Matthew.
Upon the Completion of the First Five Year Plan: Year V in Review (Part II)
Welcome to part two of our YEAR 5 in review episode. We make one big announcement and then talk about all the really cool stuff that happened this year and all the really cool stuff that is on the ho…
Upon the Completion of the First Five Year Plan: Year V in Review (Part I)
Welcome to our YEAR 5 in review episode. We make one big announcement and then talk about all the really cool stuff that happened this year and all the really cool stuff that is on the horizon.