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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December 31, 2018 A Situationist New Year’s Spectacular: Discussion about Guy Debord, the Situationists, and the Society of the Spectacle
In the years since Guy Debord wrote "The Society of the Spectacle" we have witnessed the utter triumph of said spectacle and have been thoroughly crushed under the jackboot of its mediocrity. We think that some of the ideas of the Situationists are even more relevant now than they were in 68 and are worth having a conservation about, so we did.
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A Short List of Some of the Readings For this Episode:

Society of the Spectacle (full text)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

Revenge of the Spectacle
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/revenge-of-the-spectacle-this-time-its-personal

Bringing Fuel to The Flames: Anselme Jappe's Guy Debord
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/bringing-fuel

Notes on the Spectacle of Opposition
https://www.sayitwithpavingstones.org/news/2018/6/29/some-notes-on-the-spectacle-of-opposition

Why Psychogeography?
https://www.sayitwithpavingstones.org/news/2018/8/14/derive-0-why-psychogeography

Background on 1968
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/

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December 18, 2018 Art, Revolution, and the Popular Avant Garde
In our first ever FEATURE episode, we talk about the Marxist art, its mission, the idea of the Popular Avant Garde, and why transgression is important.
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December 14, 2018 Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will
This week we discuss our orientation as Revolutionary Pessimists. We believe that humanity is worth saving, but were not so sure that is going to work out. A clear headed, sober, pessimistic orientation is necessary to continue to organize as socialists. We must be ready to salvage the burnt out husk of our planet and build an egalitarian future in the irradiated post apocalyptic deserts. A strategy for ruination is necessary.
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Salvage Quarterly
http://salvage.zone/in-print/salvage-perspectives-1-amid-this-stony-rubbish/

For a Marxism Without Guarantees
http://www.agpolpsy.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Hall-For-a-Marxism-Without-Guarantees.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2zkfhtBHg_j1-YBQ3eCpPUXCnKeg0FxeEq5Y3KWN4Fqdf5lVCGwhEBsqs

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November 28, 2018 Organizing on the Edge of the Abyss: Building Class Power and the Looming Apocalypse
This week we discuss ourselves a little bit before diving into the topic of base building. What is base building? Is it a new strategy? Is it just aping Maoist and Narodnik tactics in a decidedly un-Bolshevik fashion? It isn't, but if it was why would that be bad?
In this episode, we talk about why building is becoming popular among the membership of the DSA and whether it is a viable strategy for working class power

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November 16, 2018 Fascism, Post Fascism, and Not-Fascism: PART II
Part Two of our series examining fascism. The post fascist matrix has vomited forth a dizzying array of political formations; we recorded ourselves thinking out loud about them.

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October 31, 2018 Fascism, Post-Fascism, and Not-Fascism: PART I
Part one of our series examining all of the fascisms (This is a re-upload with some sound issues resolved)

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October 23, 2018 Reign of the Vampire Castle: A discussion about Mark Fisher, call out culture, and online left-toxicity.
We discuss Mark Fisher's pertinent and controversial essay "Exiting the Vampire's Castle. What did Fisher get wrong, what did he get right? Will the left shake its toxic call out culture in time to save humanity from impending catastrophe?

Exiting the Vampire Castle
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/

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