The Regrettable Century

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February 10 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 02/07/2026
The Greenland Nothingburger, Regime Change in Iran Wouldn't be Quick or Easy, Epstein Was Mossad, Epstein in Ukraine, Ukraine's Internal and Military Collapse...

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21 min
February 06 Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part XI)
The boys are back and are nearing the end of the book. Chapters 11 and 12 are where Dugin's animating principle of "Dasein" comes into conflict with his understanding of global geopolitics and the project of "Fourth Political Praxis."

Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media.

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19 min
February 03 Pessimism is an Optimism: A Return to Dialectical Pessimism (REDUX)
This is a repost of an episode from 2003, but with an added leadoff that we recorded recently.

This episode discusses a topic that bears constant revisiting: our pessimism (because of intellect) and our optimism (because of will). No, it's not just a doomer affectation that we can use to sound as cool as we look; it's a critical method of engaging with the bleak reality that faces us.

The only way out is through, but getting through is possible.

Revolutionary Pessimism: The Worst is Yet to Come
https://www.christiansocialism.com/2020/05/12/covid-peter-fleming-revolutionary-pessimism-capitalism/

Pessimism of the Will
https://viewpointmag.com/2020/05/28/pessimism-of-the-will/

CRITICAL PESSIMISM AND THE LIMITS OF TRADITIONAL MARXISM
https://www.jstor.org/stable/657342

For A Refresher:

The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out: Pessimisms and Optimisms of Intellect and Will
https://regrettablecentury.podbean.com/e/the-proper-amount-of-bumming-people-out-pessimisms-and-optimisms-of-intellect-and-will/

Scattered Thoughts on Melancholia and the Organization of Pessimism
https://regrettablecentury.podbean.com/e/scattered-thoughts-on-melancholia-and-the-organization-of-pessimism/

Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will
https://regrettablecentury.podbean.com/e/pessimism-of-the-intellect-pessimism-of-the-will/https://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/220523/889740-pessimism-of-the-intellect-pessimism-of-the-will

Music- Англия - Сказочный мир
1 hr 22 min
January 27 Half a Revolution: The Pink Tide and 21st Century Socialism
This week, we get together to talk through a sort of brief overview of the era of the Pink Tide in Latin America and try to draw out some of the lessons and implications for the future of Socialism for the 21st Century...

What Happened to the Pink Tide?
https://jacobin.com/2016/07/pink-tide-latin-america-chavez-morales-capitalism-socialism/

The Rise and Fall of the Latin American Left
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-ebb-and-flow-of-latin-americas-pink-tide/

What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?
https://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/what-is-socialism-for-the-twenty-first-century/

21st Century Socialism: What It Will Become and Why?
https://ibw21.org/commentary/21st-century-socialism-what-it-will-become-and-why/

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1 hr 10 min
January 25 Patron Preview: Patron Q&A IV
Here it is comrades, the long-awaited fourth patron Q&A. We answer questions about America's humiliation, Chinese communism, AI in schools, and our favorite revolutionary books and/or pamphlets.

This is only half the questions we received this time, the second half will be posted in Patron Q&A V next week...
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17 min
January 21 PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 01/20/2026
The Iran Regime Change that Wasn't, Canada and China are Pals Now, Greenland Idiocy, Ukraine's Mass Desertion Crisis, Ukraine's Corruption Crisis, Ukraine's Fiscal Crisis, Ukraine's Fortification Crisis, Ukraine's Losing the War Crisis...
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17 min
January 20 From Dawn to Decadence, REDUX: The Boys are Back in Town (Part V) With Varn Vlog
Once again, the boys are back... again. We return to our long-neglected "Decadence Theory" project with Varn Vlog. This week, the boys try to get back in the swing of things with a reorientation episode.

Varn Vlog
https://www.patreon.com/c/varnvlog/posts

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1 hr 33 min
January 14 The Left Needs a Utopian Vision (Part II of II)
This week, we finally finish off the a close reading of The Concept of Left by Leszek Kolakowski.
Kolakowski was a dissident Polish Marxist who later turned against the project altogether. However, before he did, he wrote much that is worth reading.

The Concept of the Left- Leszek Kolakowski
https://danieltutt.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/concept_of-_the_left_kolakowskileszek.pdf

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1 hr 40 min
January 07 PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 01/06/2026
The Venezuelan Regime Change that Wasn't, Oil Companies don't Want Venezuelan Oil, Machado Sidelined by Trump, Israeli False Flags, Israel Persecutes Christians, AIPAC Goes Underground, The CIA's Role in the Ukraine War, Ukraine War Summary 2025...
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17 min
December 30, 2025 On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part IV)
This week, the Regrettable Christian Caucus finishes Chapter II 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.
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1 hr 44 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.