The Regrettable Century

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May 20 Conspiracy or Just Capitalism? Paranoia and Parapolitics in the Post-Epstein World
As socialists, what should we think about conspiracy theories? Should the myriad secret diabolical acts perpetrated by the elites lead us to be more open minded toward the ravings of the open-minded so-called "lunatic fringe," Or does it even matter whether the theories are true?

Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
https://files.libcom.org/files/Comments%20on%20the%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle.pdf

Conspiracy Theory Is Dead
https://jacobin.com/2023/05/conspiracy-theory-is-dead

Conspiracies: Left vs Right
https://theramparts.substack.com/p/conspiracies-the-left-vs-right

Understanding and Addressing the Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the 21st Century
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.70050?af=R

What do socialists say about conspiracy theories?
https://socialistalternative.info/2024/08/16/what-do-socialists-say-about-conspiracy-theories/

Conspiracy-Theory Socialism
https://fee.org/articles/conspiracy-theory-socialism/

How the Left Lost Its Mind
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/

Why Is Conspiratorial Thinking More Popular on the Right?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-justice-pacifists/202110/why-is-conspiratorial-thinking-more-popular-the-right

What Conspiracy Theories on the Left and Right Have in Common
https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-conspiracy-theories-on-the-left-and-right-have-in-common/

How the Left Fools Themselves Into Thinking the Right Are Conspiracy Theorists
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2020/07/23/how_the_left_fools_themselves_into_thinking_the_right_are_conspiracy_theorists.html
1 hr 11 min
May 16 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/16/2026
F-35s With no Radar, US Pulling Troops From Europe, Chinese Solar Exports Soar, Iran Is a Massive Strategic Defeat For the US, Israel's Government Is Crumbling, Vehicle and Territory Losses In Ukraine...

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21 min
May 13 PATREON PREVIEW -- Fascism: Does the Definition Matter? (Part II of II)
This week's bonus episode is the second and last part of our close read close read of a 2021 article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion.

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21 min
May 04 Weeks When Decades Happen: The Death of the World Order (II of II)
This week, the boys got together to finish the discussion about what appears to be a massive shift in the way the global system is ordered. Will it be better? Likely not. Will it present opportunities for rupture? Hopefully.

Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US?
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/iran-us-antiwar-movement-trump

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster
https://archive.ph/gEEBj

The decline of the West and the rise of ‘the Rest’ will lead to a new world order
https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2025-09/decline-west-and-rise-rest-will-lead-new-world-order

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1 hr 9 min
May 01 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 04/30/2026
Trump Has Dementia, The Blockade of Iran Won't Work and Neither Will War, Massive Global Economic Crisis is Coming, Israel's Spy Epidemic, US Navy Food Scandal, Russia's Losses are Declining While Gaining More Territory...

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21 min
April 30 Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part XII)
Jason and Varn are back and discussing Dugin again. As the discussion of the book inches closer to conclusion, this discussion moves into Dugin's ideas about Fascism, Liberalism, and Communism and the need to transcend these ideologies in the 21st century before moving into the Heideggerian foundations of Dugin's thought.

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11 min
April 22 Weeks When Decades Happen: The Death of the World Order
This week, the boys got together to talk about what appears to be a massive shift in the way the global system is ordered. Will it be better? Likely not. Will it present opportunities for rupture? Hopefully.

Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US?
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/iran-us-antiwar-movement-trump

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster
https://archive.ph/gEEBj

The decline of the West and the rise of ‘the Rest’ will lead to a new world order
https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2025-09/decline-west-and-rise-rest-will-lead-new-world-order

This Is the Way a World Order Ends
https://archive.ph/9bEI6

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1 hr 46 min
April 17 PATREON PREVIEW -- Fascism: Does the Definition Matter? (Part I of II)
This week's bonus episode is a close read of an article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion. Stay tuned for part two.

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19 min
April 07 From Dawn to Decadence (Part VI) With Varn Vlog
In part VI the boys discuss theories of "decadence" as viewed by the Aufheben collective.
We focus on their early contributions to Marxist theory, critique of the state, and their eventual decline.

Note: Within days of recording this, the Iran war broke out, but this was recorded a few days before that started.
Key Topics Discussed:
The Roots of Aufheben: How the collective emerged within the landscape of radical Marxist theory.
Critique of Luxemburgism: Why Aufheben rejected theories of automatic economic collapse in favor of a more nuanced understanding of class struggle.
The Decay of Theory: Analyzing the shifts in the collective’s perspective that signaled a move away from their original radical foundations.
Theoretical Implications: How these debates on the "highest stage" of capitalism and the "rentier state" remain relevant in today's shifting global landscape.
https://www.patreon.com/c/varnvlog/posts
1 hr 39 min
April 06 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 04/02/2026
Trump's Big Nothingburger Speech, US Testing Weapons on Iranian Children, Gulf Arabs Want US Bases Out, India Importing Iranian Oil, US Casualty Coverup, Iranian Missiles are 80% Successful, Hezbollah is Taking a Huge Toll on Israel, Ukraine Desertion and Manpower Crisis...

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20 min

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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.