The Regrettable Century

By Chris, Jason, Kevin, Ben

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 spar

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September 18, 2024 The World Spirit on Podcast: Is Hegel Still Relevant After the End of History?
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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1h 5min
September 12, 2024 Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer (Episode IV)
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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September 02, 2024 To Front or Not to Front: The Question of ”Popular Frontism”
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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1h 12min
August 31, 2024 Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: Dugin’s 4th Political Theory (Part VII)
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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August 28, 2024 Patreon Preview -- Slovak Socialism: A Czechoslovak Socialism Addendum
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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August 19, 2024 From Dawn to Decadence (Part I): With Varn Vlog *UNLOCKED*
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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August 15, 2024 Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy by Otto Bauer (Episode III)
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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August 13, 2024 From Dawn to Decadence: Doom 2024 (Episode 1.5 -- BONUS) *UNLOCKED*
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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1h 37min
August 05, 2024 The Boys Figure Out Which Marxist Tendency is Correct
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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July 30, 2024 Patreon Preview -- Voices from the Soviet Edge
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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