The Regrettable Century

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April 01 PATREON PREVIEW: No, It's Not Fascism
This week, we read an article by inveterate shitlib, defender of liberal imperialism, and misunderstander of history, Jonathan Rauch. Rauch has changed his mind about Trump being a fascist, and we are here to tell him he shouldn't have...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/

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21 min
March 25 On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part V)
This week, the Regrettable Christian Caucus tackles Chapter III of Laudato Si' by the late Pope Francis. You can follow along by grabbing the PDF from Verso or from the Vatican website.
This Papal Encyclical calls for urgent action to address the global environmental crisis, critiques consumerism, blind developmentalism, inequality, and profit seeking. The document calls for global political solidarity to transition to a sustainable economy and for the protection of the world's most vulnerable populations.

Read Along Here:
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html

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1 hr 51 min
March 23 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 03/22/2026
The Stumbling Bumbling War Crimes Clown Show, US to Lift Sanctions on Iranian and Russian Oil, Global Energy Output Severely Reduced For Years, Plans For Forever War, Earthquake Faction, Ukraine Joins the Axis of Genocide, and Yes, They are Still Losing...

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23 min
March 20 PATREON PREVIEW: A Post Order World, or a Post World Order?
This week Chris and Jason read and discuss two articles about the rearrangement of the global order. Multipolarity is here; will it be better or worse for peace, stability, profits, or the project for human liberation?

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18 min
March 11 Regime Change by Another Name: Color Revolutions and Hijacked Dreams
Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in the USA https://www.globalresearch.ca/colored-revolutions-a-new-form-of-regime-change-made-in-the-usa/27061

Can the West Still Engineer a ‘Color Revolution’? We’re About to Find Out https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/color-revolution-lukyanov/

Why a Decade of Protests Didn’t Lead to Revolution https://jacobin.com/2024/01/vincent-bevins-interview-mass-protests-2010s-arab-spring-euromaidan

New report unveils how CIA schemes color revolutions around the world https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290090.shtml

Nepal's color revolution: US funding under scrutiny amid country's political upheaval https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/09/17/755176/nepal-color-revolution-us-funding-under-scrutiny-amid-political-upheaval

How Color Revolution Was Born—and Died—in Serbia https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-color-revolution-was-born-and-died-in-serbia/

Protests in Kazakhstan: A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising? https://internationalviewpoint.org/Protests-in-Kazakhstan-A-Color-Revolution-or-a-Working-Class-Uprising

Inside the Syrian Revolution and what the Left must do https://internationalviewpoint.org/Inside-the-Syrian-Revolution-and-what-the-Left-must-do
1 hr 30 min
March 07 Patreon Preview -- Regrettable Geopolitics 03/05/2026
The Epstein Alliance is at War With Iran... and its Not Going Well, Zelensky Threatens to Invade Hungary, Russian Casualty Figures are Inflated, Ukraine is Losing the War... Still

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19 min
February 25 The Gang Goes Full Tankie: The Results and Prospects of Digital Stalinism
This week, the boys got together and discussed the perpetual battle between the digital Stalinists and the digital Third Campists. To what extent have those demonized as tankies been right or wrong? To what extent do any of these archaic political designations matter?

New Tankies and Digital Neo-Stalinism: How the Conservative Left is Incubated
https://europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article73701

Don’t Be a Tankie: How the Left Should Respond to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-russia-leftists-tankie/

What Is a Tankie-and Why You Don’t Want to Be One
https://medium.com/@ksutherland2727.ks/what-is-a-tankie-and-why-you-dont-want-to-be-one-0fb84611233a

Everything you ever wanted to know about tankies, but were afraid to ask
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-always-against-the-tanks#toc2

Why are ‘anti-imperialists’ defending dictators?
https://www.972mag.com/tankies-left-authoritarians-imperialism/

The ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Idiots
https://itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/

JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
https://www.joewrote.com/p/jfk-files-reveal-the-cia-role-in

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1 hr 37 min
February 22 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 02/21/2026
Keep up with Burkina Faso, Trump is Killing Cuba, Iran is a Formidable Opponent, Iranian Dead Protester Psyop, Pedophile Country Provides Security for Epstein, Spook Dictators on the Rise in Ukraine, The Ukrainian Counteroffensive that Wasn't...

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15 min
February 18 Patreon Preview: Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour (Part III)
Finally, the long awaited return of 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang dives into chapters three and four. Catch up with us by joining the Discord.

From the publisher:
Liberal civilization is in crisis - now is a time of monsters.
While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic right-wing leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, defeating these people will not stem the tide behind them. They are the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling, Richard Seymour delves into the ideologies fueling the contemporary right and distorting modern politics into something abhorrent and nihilistic. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization.

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20 min
February 11 The Red Jacobins and the Thermidor of 1921: Revisited (UNLOCKED)
This week, we returned to a discussion about a not very well-known article from an obscure Trotskyist journal written over a decade ago...
It generated a little bit of a buzz, but was mostly ignored. We think that was a mistake, and we are going to tell you all about why you should care about the decisions of the 10th Party Congress of the Russian Communist Party.
You won't want to miss this episode.

The Article in Question:
The Red Jacobins: Thermidor and the Russian Revolution in 1921

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1 hr 45 min

About The Regrettable Century

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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.