The Regrettable Century

By Chris, Kevin, Jason, & Ben

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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 Marxist salvage project capable of putting up a good fight as the world burns around us. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.


Episode Date
Patreon Preview -- Patron Q&A
Apr 18, 2024
PATREON PREVIEW -- The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode 0)
Apr 11, 2024
A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Intro to Ernst Bloch (with Jon Greenaway aka thelitcritguy)
Apr 08, 2024
Internet Psychobabble and its Consequences (Have Been a Disaster for the Human Race)
Mar 26, 2024
Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part III)
Mar 21, 2024
Patreon Preview -- Disaster Nationalism
Mar 13, 2024
The Broken Bones of Belief: Why They Left the Left
Mar 11, 2024
Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: The Nature of American Conservatism (BONUS)
Mar 07, 2024
Patreon Preview -- Revolution by Enzo Traverso: Regrettable Book Club (Part VII: FinaIe)
Feb 26, 2024
One Plus One Is Three: The Poverty of "Third Campism"
Feb 20, 2024
UNLOCKED -- Victorious February: Lessons from the Czechoslovak Revolution (Czechoslovak Socialism Part I of III)
Feb 05, 2024
Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part II)
Feb 01, 2024
Preview -- From 78: Jason's Talk with Neil of Inform:Podcast
Jan 25, 2024
The Boys Solve the Israel-Palestine "Conflict"
Jan 23, 2024
Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas (Episode 0)
Jan 15, 2024
Wally B as a Vibe: Discussing Walter Benjamin with the Subjective Conditions Podcast
Jan 08, 2024
Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part I)
Jan 04, 2024
Patreon Preview -- Revolution by Enzo Traverso: Regrettable Book Club (Part VI)
Jan 01, 2024
No Royal Road: Class Conflict and The Crisis of Feudalism (Part III)
Dec 18, 2023
PATREON PREVIEW- Bonapart III: The One Where We Talk About the Movie
Dec 14, 2023
Upon the Completion of the First Five Year Plan: Year V in Review (Part II)
Dec 05, 2023
Upon the Completion of the First Five Year Plan: Year V in Review (Part I)
Nov 29, 2023
Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso (Part V)
Nov 23, 2023
Vive la révolution, Vive L'Empereur: The Mixed Legacy of Napoleon (Bonapart II)
Nov 16, 2023
Vive la révolution, Vive L'Empereur: The Mixed Legacy of Napoleon (Part I)
Nov 09, 2023
Patreon Preview -- William Morris: From Romantic to Revolutionary
Oct 30, 2023
No Royal Road: Class Conflict and The Crisis of Feudalism (Part II)
Oct 26, 2023
Patreon Preview -- The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
Oct 12, 2023
Pessimism is an Optimism: A Return to Dialectical Pessimism
Oct 03, 2023
No Royal Road: Class Conflict and The Crisis of Feudalism (Part I)
Sep 18, 2023
Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso (Part IV)
Sep 14, 2023
The Dialectic of Degrowth: Socialists and the Burden of Ecological Disaster
Sep 04, 2023
Patreon Preview: Replacing the Dead by Mie Nakachi
Aug 28, 2023
Lumpenization and its Discontents: Disagreements About the Lumpen Classes
Aug 22, 2023
Patreon Preview: Daddy Masaryk and Czechoslovakism
Aug 17, 2023
No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism: The End of Techno-Feudal Reason (Part V of V)
Aug 07, 2023
Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso, Part III (Regrettable Book Club)
Jul 31, 2023
Podcasts From Nowhere: William Morris' Romantic Marxism
Jul 25, 2023
Bathing in the Warm Stream: The Romantic and Gothic Strain of Marxism with Jon (TheLitCritGuy) of Horror Vanguard
Jul 16, 2023
Patreon Preview: Third Worldism, but Make it Racist
Jul 13, 2023
Much Ado About PATSOCS: Finding a Better Way to Talk About Working Class Patriotism
Jul 03, 2023
Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso, Part II (Regrettable Book Club)
Jun 28, 2023
No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism (Part IV)
Jun 19, 2023
Patreon Preview: Velvet Counterrevolution & Divorce
Jun 15, 2023
The Dialectic of Apotheosis: Lunacharsky and the Godbuilders
Jun 05, 2023
Patreon Preview: Stalinism at War
May 31, 2023
The French Conundrum (RE-UPLOAD): The Continuing Struggle Over Pension Reforms
May 29, 2023
Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso, Part I (Regrettable Book Club)
May 22, 2023
No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism (Part III)
May 08, 2023
Patreon Preview -- Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia
Apr 30, 2023
You're Not Making Liberals Socialist, You're Just Making Socialists More Liberal!
Apr 17, 2023
Patreon Preview -- The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia
Apr 05, 2023
Les Aristocrates à la Lanterne: The French Pension Reforms (With Matthew from A Fine Old Conflict)
Apr 03, 2023
Patreon Preview: Neither Vertical nor Horizontal (Part IV -- Finale)
Mar 27, 2023
No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism (Part II)
Mar 19, 2023
Setting Fears Afloat (Liquid Fear: Part III -- Finale)
Mar 12, 2023
No Republic is Safe That Tolerates a Privileged Class: On Marxist Republicanism
Feb 22, 2023
Patreon Preview: A Failed Empire
Feb 13, 2023
No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism -- Part I
Feb 06, 2023
The Dialectics of Wood Law: Marxism and Natural Law with Steven
Jan 29, 2023
Patreon Preview: Laboratory of Socialist Development
Jan 24, 2023
The Boys Win the Culture War- With Matthew from A Fine Old Conflict
Jan 16, 2023
Unimaginable Horrors and the Terrors of the Global (Liquid Fear Part II)
Dec 19, 2022
Patreon Preview: Neither Vertical nor Horizontal (Part III)
Nov 30, 2022
Four Regrettable Years
Nov 22, 2022
Meming Prometheus and the Continuing Tragedy of the Worker (II of II)
Nov 06, 2022
The Labor Theory of Apocalypse (I of II)
Nov 01, 2022
The Dialectics of Madness- With Adam from Subjective Conditions
Oct 14, 2022
Fear of Evil, Dread of Death (Liquid Fear Part 1) -- Featuring the Return of Jason
Oct 03, 2022
Patreon Preview: Hangin' Out With Jason
Sep 21, 2022
Red Theology (Part V- Final): Revolutionary Christianity With East Asian Characteristics
Sep 12, 2022
Patreon Preview: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: Book Club (Part I)
Sep 09, 2022
Red Theology (Part IV): The Possibility of Religious Revolution
Aug 23, 2022
Red Theology (Part III): Heilsgeschichte, History, and Marxism
Jul 19, 2022
PODCAST UPDATE
Jul 13, 2022
Red Theology (Part II): Omnia Sunt Communia
May 31, 2022
Patreon Preview: Socialism With A Human Face -- The Prague Spring of 1968
May 24, 2022
The Dharma of Emancipation: Marxism in Dialogue with Buddhism (With Adam from Subjective Conditions)
May 16, 2022
Red Theology (Part I): Christian Communism as Political Myth
May 02, 2022
No Royal Road -- The Feudal Revolution Debate (With C. Derick Varn)
Apr 20, 2022
Patreon Preview: Victorious February (Lessons From The Czechoslovak Revolution)
Apr 19, 2022
Marxism in Dialogue With Christianity
Apr 06, 2022
Patreon Preview: The Left In Purgatory (I of II)
Mar 28, 2022
The One Where We Talk About Everything That Is Wrong
Mar 21, 2022
Neither "Neither Washington nor Moscow" nor Washington nor Moscow
Mar 07, 2022
Patreon Preview: Weimar German Communism & National Bolshevism (Part II of II)
Feb 27, 2022
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part IV (With C. Derick Varn)
Feb 23, 2022
The Death of the Left?
Feb 07, 2022
The Farce of American Socialism: The American Socialist Movement, Part II
Jan 26, 2022
Patreon Preview: Labriola's Socialism & Philosophy, Part II
Jan 21, 2022
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part III (With C. Derick Varn)
Jan 12, 2022
PATREON PREVIEW: Chris and Neil Talk About Academia
Jan 02, 2022
No Ethical Technological Innovation Under Capitalism
Dec 28, 2021
The Tragedy of American Socialism: The American Socialist Movement (Part I)
Dec 16, 2021
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part II (With C. Derick Varn)
Nov 30, 2021
Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution- With Neil from InForm Podcast
Nov 10, 2021
Stakhanovites of Glorious Socialist Podcasting: Year Three of the Regrettable Century (Episode 100!)
Nov 03, 2021
Patreon Preview: Labriola's Socialism & Philosophy, Part I
Oct 20, 2021
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part I (With C. Derick Varn)
Oct 18, 2021
Punk is Dead and So Are We: Introducing A Fine Old Conflict
Sep 28, 2021
Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (With Red Library): Part III of III
Sep 14, 2021
The New Moment In Marxism: Introducing The Measures Taken
Sep 06, 2021
The Uses and Abuses of Christopher Lasch - With C Derick Varn (Part II of II)
Aug 24, 2021
The Uses and Abuses of Christopher Lasch - With C Derick Varn (Part I of II)
Aug 18, 2021
Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (With Red Library): Part II of III
Aug 04, 2021
The Internet and its Consequences...
Jul 29, 2021
PATREON PREVIEW: Nihilist Communism (Part Three)
Jul 27, 2021
Treating the Symptoms of Capitalism: Mental Illness, Therapy, Psychedelics, and Mysticism
Jul 21, 2021
Let America be America Again... For Once
Jul 14, 2021
Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (With Red Library): Part I of III
Jul 01, 2021
PATREON PREVIEW: Nihilist Communism (Part One)
Jun 28, 2021
The Specter of Common Ruin: Theories of Capitalist Decadence
Jun 17, 2021
Stillborn Utopia: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Republic
Jun 09, 2021
We Are All Dying: The Twittering Machine (Part III of III)
Jun 02, 2021
PATREON PREVIEW: Give Up Activism?
May 26, 2021
We Are All Addicts: The Twittering Machine (Part II of III)
May 24, 2021
We Are All Connected: The Twittering Machine (Part I of III)
May 17, 2021
Isolated Together: Anxiety, Alienation, and Despair in the Age of Covid
May 06, 2021
PATREON PREVIEW: Actually Imagining The End of Capitalism...
Apr 30, 2021
UNLOCKED: Everything Is Recuperated
Apr 28, 2021
The Internet Was a Mistake: Surveillance Capitalism and the Public-Private Tech Panopticon
Apr 14, 2021
Capitalism Without a Human Face: Neoliberalism as a Stage of Capitalism?
Apr 01, 2021
PATREON TEASER: Communist Hope, Communist Despair
Mar 26, 2021
Imagining the End: Climate Catastrophe, Mass Extinction, and Utopia
Mar 22, 2021
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part VII- The Final Episode (with Red Library)
Mar 08, 2021
PATREON TEASER: Microsects, Macrosects, and Failing Better
Mar 01, 2021
The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment
Feb 25, 2021
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part VI (with Red Library)
Feb 08, 2021
Posting Made Flesh: Scattered Thoughts on the Current and Future State of the Left (With C. Derick Varn and PH )
Feb 01, 2021
Expanding the Austerity Panopticon: The Capitol Riot as Political Theater (with C. Derick Varn, PH Higgins, and Steven)
Jan 20, 2021
The End of Capitalist Realism?
Jan 18, 2021
Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #2 (With C. Derick Varn)
Jan 10, 2021
PATREON TEASER: Without a party we have something... but it sucks
Jan 07, 2021
Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #1 (With C. Derick Varn)
Jan 04, 2021
Happiness Industry Socialism
Dec 28, 2020
PATREON TEASER: The Immortal Science of Driving a Tank
Dec 24, 2020
Subject, Alienation, and So On (PART II): Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library)
Dec 21, 2020
Subject, Alienation, and So On: Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library) PART I
Dec 14, 2020
Mammon No 5: The Enchantments of Mammon - Part V (With Red Library)
Dec 07, 2020
PATREON TEASER: Disaster Nationalism
Nov 27, 2020
Hegel's Bastards: Sam Teaches Us About Hegel Like We are Dumb Babies
Nov 24, 2020
A Journal of the Plague Year: Year Two of the Regrettable Century
Nov 15, 2020
A Smattering of Unqualified Thoughts About the Election
Nov 10, 2020
PATREON TEASER: Conspiranoia! - Patron Roundtable
Oct 22, 2020
Supreme Leap Backward: Why the Supreme Court is Actually Very Bad (with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward)
Oct 19, 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part IV (with Red Library)
Oct 11, 2020
The Role of the Individual in the End of the End of History
Oct 07, 2020
Can Woke Capitalism Save the World?
Sep 22, 2020
UNLOCKED: Science Impregnated With History- PART II, Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)
Aug 31, 2020
PATREON TEASER: Everything is Recuperated
Aug 27, 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part III (With Red Library)
Aug 17, 2020
Aut Caesar, Aut Christus: Christian Marxism, Liberation Theology, and Catholic Communism (With Mir Bal)
Aug 09, 2020
PATREON TEASER: Science Impregnated With History PART II
Aug 04, 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part II (With Red Library)
Jul 27, 2020
Science Impregnated With History: Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)
Jul 22, 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part I (with Red Library)
Jul 06, 2020
We Never Learned Anything About Lacan (with Neil of From 78)
Jun 30, 2020
The End of Policing?
Jun 22, 2020
We Are All Unclean: On Covid Vigilantism and Burning Cop Cars
Jun 11, 2020
Tragedy, Farce, and Apocalypse: The Shambling Corpse of Bonapartism- With C. Derick Varn
May 26, 2020
A Time of Monsters: More Marxist Theories of Fascism
May 18, 2020
The Angel of History: Walter Benjamin, Myth, Rationality, and Modernity-- With Patrick from the Radical Thoughts Podcast
May 04, 2020
Lost Horizons Network Roundtable: Well... Here we are, still, after all (EPISODE I)
Apr 27, 2020
BONUS- A Rising Every Generation: James Connolly, the Easter Rising, and Irish Republican Socialism
Apr 24, 2020
PATREON TEASER: Four Theses on the Comrade
Apr 22, 2020
The Church of the Better Apocalypse
Apr 13, 2020
Marxism Against the Tide of Modernity: Uniting the Promethean and Romantic (PART II) With Donald Parkinson
Apr 06, 2020
PATREON TEASER: Scattered Thoughts on Electoralism, Coronavirus, and What to Do Next With CPUSA Brad
Apr 03, 2020
Marxism Against the Tide of Modernity: Uniting the Promethean and Romantic (with Donald from Cosmonaut)
Mar 30, 2020
Pashukanis and the Origins of Soviet Legal Theory (with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward)
Mar 16, 2020
We Would Prefer Not To: Against a Politics of Catharsis- UNLOCKED
Mar 02, 2020
Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia: With Adam from Red Library (Part II)
Feb 17, 2020
Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia: With Adam from Red Library (Part I)
Feb 10, 2020
Socialism Without Sacrifice and Other Fake Futures We are Against
Feb 03, 2020
PATREON TEASER: On the Flinching of Cowards and Sneering of Traitors- Part II
Jan 15, 2020
On The Flinching of Cowards and Sneering of Traitors: BONUS EPISODE!
Jan 12, 2020
PATREON TEASER: Socialism In One Country- With C. Derick Varn: Part II
Jan 06, 2020
Socialism in One Country, but then like All the Countries: With C. Derick Varn
Jan 01, 2020
Partially Automated Regular Communism
Dec 09, 2019
PATREON TEASER: We Would Prefer Not To
Dec 05, 2019
A Time of Monsters: Marxist Theories of Fascism
Nov 25, 2019
The Long Halloween: Year One of the Regrettable Century
Nov 11, 2019
Anti-Communism Without Communism
Oct 23, 2019
The Law is Bad; Cops, Courts, All of it
Oct 07, 2019
The Future Has Been Canceled: The Stalling of Culture and Technology in a Decaying Society
Sep 16, 2019
PATREON TEASER: The Red Jacobins and the Thermidor of 1921
Sep 09, 2019
No One is Bored, Everything is Boring, Everyone is Anxious
Sep 02, 2019
Dialectic of Defeat: A Collaboration with Red Library, Part II
Aug 19, 2019
Dialectic of Defeat: A Collaboration with Red Library, Part I
Aug 12, 2019
PATREON TEASER: Goodbye Lenin: Melancholic Thoughts
Aug 02, 2019
Children of the Counterrevolution
Jul 30, 2019
The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out: Pessimisms and Optimisms of Intellect and Will
Jul 15, 2019
Scattered Thoughts on Melancholia and the Organization of Pessimism
Jun 24, 2019
Marxism & Religion & Everything Else & Religion, With C. Derick Varn
Jun 10, 2019
PATREON TEASER: Many Roads To Socialism? The Early Comintern Debates On "Workers Governments"
Jun 03, 2019
Neither Socialism From Above, Nor Below... but definitely Socialism
May 27, 2019
A Time of Monsters: Towards a Working Definition of Fascism
May 13, 2019
Zizek v. Peterson: The "Debate of the Century" that We Deserve
Apr 29, 2019
The Death of the Micro-Sect
Apr 22, 2019
The Right to the City: Changing the City, to Change Ourselves
Apr 03, 2019
The Open Road to the Stars: A Discussion With Donald Parkinson of Cosmonaut Magazine
Mar 25, 2019
The People's Commissariat for Gettin' It On: Sexual Radicalism and Liberation Under 20th Century Socialism
Mar 18, 2019
Lawyerization and Its Discontents: A Discussion on Marxist Jurisprudence with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward
Mar 11, 2019
The Uses and Abuses of Identity Politics
Mar 04, 2019
Gothic Marxism and Marxist Romanticism: Horror, Witches, and Gothic Fascism
Feb 18, 2019
Gothic Marxism and Marxist Romanticism: Embracing All That Makes Us Human
Feb 10, 2019
Disagreements With the Unabomber
Jan 28, 2019
Strasserism, National Bolshevism, and Third Positionism (Part II of II)
Jan 20, 2019
Strasserism, National Bolshevism, and Third Positionism (Part I of II)
Jan 16, 2019
EPISODE 0: Capitalist Realism, Our Original First Episode.
Jan 07, 2019
A Situationist New Year's Spectacular: Discussion about Guy Debord, the Situationists, and the Society of the Spectacle
Dec 31, 2018
Art, Revolution, and the Popular Avant Garde
Dec 18, 2018
Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will
Dec 14, 2018
Organizing on the Edge of the Abyss: Building Class Power and the Looming Apocalypse
Nov 28, 2018
Fascism, Post Fascism, and Not-Fascism: PART II
Nov 16, 2018
Fascism, Post-Fascism, and Not-Fascism: PART I
Oct 31, 2018
Reign of the Vampire Castle: A discussion about Mark Fisher, call out culture, and online left-toxicity.
Oct 23, 2018