The Regrettable Century

Come listen to the boys discuss Hegel's enduring importance to the contemporary world.


Hegel Is Still an Important Thinker for the Left
https://jacobin.com/2023/11/hegel-political-philosophy-world-revolutions-book-review

Hegel in the Era of “Wokeness”
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/hegel-wokeness-world-spirit-political-theory-history-philosophy-richard-bourke 

Reading Hegel on Bastille Day
https://jacobin.com/2016/07/hegel-bastille-day-burke-french-revolution 

The dialectic in the service of revolution (up to/until the Marx section…)
https://links.org.au/dialectic-service-revolution 

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We soldier on through this excellent but little known work on the national question. This week we FINALLY finish Chapter 1.

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The boys get together and talk about the triumphs and failures, the uses and misuses, and the love and hate for the concept of the Popular Front.

Haslam, Jonathan. “The Comintern and the Origins of the Popular Front 1934-1935.” The Historical Journal 22, no. 3 (1979): 673–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2638659.

Communists, Coalitions, and the Class Struggle
https://www.cpusa.org/article/communists-coalitions-and-the-class-struggle/

The Popular Front Didn’t Work
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/popular-front-communist-party-democrats

France’s Popular Front: Lessons from the 30s
https://www.counterfire.org/article/frances-popular-front-lessons-from-the-30s/

The Popular Front, Then and Now
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2024/06/29/the-popular-front-then-and-now-france-and-the-elections/

The United Front
http://isj.org.uk/the-united-front/

Uruguay’s Frente Amplio: From Revolution to Dilution
https://upsidedownworld.org/archives/uruguay/uruguays-frente-amplio-from-revolution-to-dilution/  

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The boys dive in to chapter 6 of Dugin's Fourth Political theory. Don't worry, there are literally no digressions and the guys stay on point the whole time.

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We just can't stop talking about Czechoslovak Socialism. We decided to deal with the Slovak portion of the Czechoslovak lands, which we feel has been a little neglected in our previous discussions. Slovakia is important as an integral part of the movement of Czechoslovak socialism and as a case study of the problem of the national question. If you have been following along with our discussions of Otto Bauer's work on the national question, you might appreciate the context.

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We accidentally released the wrong episode, this one should have come before the last! 

This week we sat down with C. Derick Varn to talk about "decadence theory," "crisis theory" and "breakdown theory." This is a special episode, mostly because it wasn't supposed to come out until August, but Varn accidentally released it early so y'all get a bonus episode.

We discussed the following materials:

Morley, Neville. "Decadence as a Theory of History." New Literary History, Vol. 35, No. 4, Forms and/of Decadence (Autumn, 2004), pp.573-585

 Decadence: The Theory of Decline or the Decline of Theory?
https://libcom.org/library/decadence-aufheben-2

 Revolution or Decadence?
https://monthlyreview.org/2018/05/01/revolution-or-decadence/ 

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Back at it again with the national question and continuing the long march through chapter one.

A link to the PDF:
https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer

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This is an impromptu episode recorded by Jason and Varn where they discuss their dissatisfaction with the general situation of American and world politics. It roughly fits in with the subject matter of our Dawn to Decadence series, so here ya go! 

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This week we all sat down to talk about the uselessness of identifying with a political tendency in our current moment. 

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This week we discussed an excellent study of migrant workers in the Soviet Union which focused on Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis who came to Leningrad and Moscow in toward the end of Union's existence.

Sahadeo, Jeff. 2019. Voices From the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow.

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