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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January 22, 2025 Patreon Preview -- From Dawn to Decadence (Part III): With Varn Vlog
The boys and Varn Vlog are back again, talking about "Decadence Theory" and how it differs from "crisis theory" and "breakdown theory." We discuss Samir Amin's Third-Worldist (and not very Marxist) take on decadence theory.

Revolution or Decadence- Samir Amin
https://monthlyreview.org/2018/05/01/revolution-or-decadence/
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January 16, 2025 Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer (Episode VIII)
The gang tackles Chapter 4 of Bauer's analysis of the concept of the nation...
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21min
January 09, 2025Our Regrettable Trash Can of Ideology
This week we entered the archives and poured through the codices and scrolls containing the wisdom of past episodes to give you this curated trash can of Ideology. We highlighted some themes from the past six years of podcasting that we thought were worth underscoring and how our ideas may have changed...

Our Underlying Philosophy of Dialectical Pessimism
S1/Ep5: Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will
S1/Ep26: The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out
S4/Ep7: Death of The Left
S5/Ep21: Pessimism is an Optimism: Revisiting Pessimism
Making Sense of Our Past
S1/Ep27: Children of the Counterrevolution
S3/Ep12: The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment
S3/Ep22: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Republic
S4/Ep3: The Tragedy of American Socialism
Rethinking What It Means To “Be” Revolutionary
S1/Ep18: The Right to the City
S2/Ep8: We Would Prefer Not To
S5/Ep15: The Legacy of William Morris
S6/Ep15: The Antifascism of Fools
A Willingness to Abandon Our Older Trajectory
S4/Ep20: Labor Theory of Apocalypse
S6/Ep5: One Plus One Is Three
S6/Ep16: The Boys Figure Out Which Marxist Tendency is Correct
S6/Ep19: To Front or Not to Front
The Major Obstacles/Challenges We Face
S3/Ep5: Happiness Industry Socialism
S3/Ep17: Everything Is Recuperated
S5/Ep9: You're Not Making Liberals Socialist...
S5/Ep19: The Dialectic of Degrowth
Our Deep Skepticism/Hostility Toward Techno-Solutions
S1/Ep31: The Future Has Been Canceled
S2/Ep2: Partially Automated Regular Communism
S2/Ep5: Socialism Without Sacrifice...
S4/Ep4: No Ethical Technical Innovation Under Capitalism
Looking Ahead
S4/Ep11: Marxism in Dialogue With Christianity
S5/Ep12: The Dialectic of Apotheosis
S5/Ep16: Bathing in the Warm Stream
S6/Ep22: Real Grouchy Old Man Hours
Regrettable Reading List:
The Red Jacobins: Thermidor & The Russian Revolution in 1921
Party As Articulator
The Tragedy of the Worker
Revolution: An Intellectual History
Left Wing Melancholia
Excremental Happiness: From Neurotic Hedonism to Dialectical Pessimism
Liquid Modernity
The True and Only Heaven: Progress & Its Critics
The Twittering Machine
Hegel & The Hermetic Tradition
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1h 9min
January 02, 2025 Patreon Preview -- Film Review: The Society of the Spectacle (w/Grindhaus Podcast)
This is an old episode of our friend Andrew's podcast that was recorded a few years ago. The podcast is now defunct, but we thought y'all deserved to hear it.

In this episode Jason and Andrew watched and discussed Guy Debord's 1974 film version of The Society of the Spectacle.

Enjoy and Happy New Year.
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22min
December 26, 2024 The Long, Slow Death of the 5th Republic
We are joined again by our official France correspondent, Matthew. Matthew is a veteran of American Trot sectarian organizing and the labor movement who lives in France and is more intimately involved in the happenings than we are.
We discuss the failure of the popular front, the ham-fisted triumph of Macron, and the death throes of the French political system.
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1h 8min
December 19, 2024 Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer (Episode VII)
Soldiering on and finishing Chapter 3 of Bauer's excellent Marxist analysis of the nation.

Read along with us:
https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer
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21min
December 13, 2024 Patreon Preview -- Books Chris Read in Grad School: The Peculiarities of German History
This week, we read and discussed Eley and Blackbourn's indispensable discussion of the Sonderweg, or special path, of German history. It is often said that Germany's path to the Holocaust begins with the failure of the bourgeois revolution to take hold. This book posits a top-down Bonapartist "revolution" led by Otto von Bismarck which thoroughly bourgeoisified German society from the top to the bottom.
Blackbourn, David, and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Oxford, 1984; Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011)
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December 04, 2024 Class Struggle & Christian Love: Herbert McCabe & Marxist Christianity
Kicking off Year VII, Chris and Ben are joined by Daniel Saunders to discuss Herbert McCabe's Class Struggle and Christian Love. The intention was also to cover pieces by Dennis Turner and Terry Eagleton but time got away from them, so Daniel will have to return again...

Herbert McCabe: The Class Struggle and Christian Love https://www.christiansocialism.com/2020/05/14/herbert-mccabe-class-struggle-capitalism-marxism-christianity/

More of Daniel:

Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism & Christianity
https://www.buzzsprout.com/220523/episodes/14978167-ideology-fetishism-apophaticism-marxist-criticism-and-christianity-with-daniel-saunders

Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism and Christianity:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nbfr.12642

And Here:
https://daniel-saunders.com/

Mentioned Materials:

The Slant Manifesto
https://archive.org/details/SlantManifestoCatholicsAndTheLeft

The New Blackfriars Journal
https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/study/new-blackfriars-journal/

Science Impregnated With History: Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)https://www.buzzsprout.com/220523/episodes/4672121-science-impregnated-with-history-marxism-and-reason-with-chris-manno.mp3?download=true
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1h 32min
November 28, 2024 Year VI In Review: More Geopolitics but Finally Also Podcast & Personal Stuff (II of II)
The long-awaited part two of our year six in review episode. We kick it off with a little geopolitical discussion but get around to discussing our personal lives and the podcast.
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1h 34min
November 20, 2024 From Dawn to Decadence (Part II): With Varn Vlog *UNLOCKED*

We are back at it again talking decadence theory with Varn. This week, we dig into Samir Amin's piece from Monthly Review.
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/
Check out Varn Vlog Here
https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog
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1h 47min

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