The Regrettable Century

By Chris, Jason, Kevin, BenSociety & Culture Philosophy

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September 15, 2025 PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 09/14/2025
Newer Dumber Years of Lead, Newer Dumber Cold War Heats Up, Israel Kills Kids in Doha This Time, Europe Can't be Inconvenienced by Sanctions on India and China, Poland Shoots Down Three Slow Moving Unarmed Decoy Drones...
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19 min
September 09, 2025 A Cascading Series of New Lefts (Part I of II)
This week the boys do a close reading of an interview with Terence Renaud wherein he discusses his new book New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition.
We weigh in on the positive and negative legacies of the multiple revisions to "leftism."
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/qa-terence-renaud-new-left/
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56 min
September 04, 2025 Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part II of II)
Today we read the second half of an article titled Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? Theorizing the nature and implications of the global far-right resurgence by Prof. Dr. Alex Demirović, which was published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

We liked this article for a few reasons, not the least of which was that it sparked good discussion...

Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? by Alex Demirović
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18 min
August 27, 2025 Patreon Preview: Anatomy of the Microsect (Patron Roundtable)
We sat down with our patrons to read and discuss the 1973 Hal Draper Pamphlet, Anatomy of the Microsect. https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm
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18 min
August 25, 2025 Under an Elm Tree: William Morris, Animism, and Anti-Capitalism (Featuring Dr. Mathias Nordvig and Arnold from Fight Like an Animal Podcast)
This week, the animist caucus of the Regrettable Century (Kevin) teamed up with Dr. Mathias Nordvig, professor of Nordic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Sacred Flame Podcast, as well as Arnold from the Fight Like an Animal Podcast to talk about the intersection of animist spirituality and radical politics. To that end, the crew read and discussed William Morris' short essay titled Under an Elm Tree.
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1 hr 44 min
August 23, 2025 PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 08/23/2025
Bounty on Maduro, Israeli Pedophile Protected by Trump... Again, Palestinian Dead are 83% Civilians, Zelensky in the Whitehouse... Again, Ukraine's Failing Drone Industry, The Inexorable Russian Lava Flow Pushes On...

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14 min
August 20, 2025 PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 08/19/2025
Trump Wusses out on China Tariffs... Again, Leaks Expose Netanyahu's Hunger Plan, Israeli Spies Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Big Tech, The Alaska Summit, Ukraine's Infantry Crisis, Ukraine's Morale Crisis, Dobrapilia Breakthrough, The Collapse Speeds Up...
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14 min
August 11, 2025 Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society
This week the boys are joined by eternal co-host Jess to discuss the novelty of adults being adults. We discuss the self-infantilization of millennials and older zoomers, which is a reflection of the crisis of meaning and deep rot at the heart of liberal modernity. We believe this is the result of a purely self-oriented conception of liberty and the ideological victory of capital's redefinition of the very essence of what it means to be human.
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Adulting in Middle Age
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/adulting-middle-age-millennials-boomers

Are millennials really an ‘infantilised generation’ - and if so, why?
https://theweek.com/107508/are-millennials-infantilised-generation

Arrested Development
https://newint.org/features/2018/01/01/arrested-development
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1 hr 13 min
August 07, 2025 Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part I of II)
Today we read an article titled Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? Theorizing the nature and implications of the global far-right resurgence by Prof. Dr. Alex Demirović, which was published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. This is an excellent article that we think misses the mark in a few places and provides much fodder for discussion.

Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? by Alex Demirović
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11 min
July 28, 2025 The Luddites Were Right, Actually
Marxist, as well as conservative and liberal bourgeois historians alike, have always had a fundamental misunderstanding about the Luddites. It turns out they weren't just reactionary peasants who feared technology and wanted to keep the world mired in an economy based on stacking sticks and mud. The Luddites weren’t resisting technology itself—they were fighting the economic systems that exploited them through it. This week, the boys dive into a conversation about Luddism's past, present, and future.

The Luddites Were Right
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/06/the-luddites-were-right
What the Luddites Really Fought Against https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of AI https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/10/02/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-a-i/
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1 hr 3 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.