The Regrettable Century

This week we continue our series on republicanism and Marxism by discussing the complicated legacy of the American Revolution. Like the bourgeois project as a whole, the historical consequences of the American Revolution have had mixed results. Simultaneously spurring on the cause of human freedom and stifling it, the American Revolution was pregnant with a creative and destructive spirit...

We teamed up with Adam from Red Library in a farewell reading series on Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee. Magee forges a path tread by few in arguing that Hegel was decisively influenced by western esotericism. In this weeks episode we trace the roots of Hermetic tradition from a syncretic cult that blended Greek and Egyptian ideas of magic and spirituality, through figures like Paracelsus, Agrippa, Bruno, Baader, and Böhme...

From the inaugural episode of our recurring Regrettable Book Club. Our first selection is Monsieur Dupont's Nihilist Communism with which we both agree and also disagree.

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It doesn't take much to convince someone that the capitalist system has exhausted its progressive potential and is in a state of decline. There are a number of theories that the prolonged state of crisis of the capitalist system is evidence that capitalism has peaked and is on its way out...

We sat down with our old friend, comrade, and fellow veteran of Trotskist hyperactivsm to discuss the concept of the Republic and whether or not is still useful to Marxist organizing/theorizing. The era of the bourgeois republic has been a simultaneous process of creation and destruction, of liberation and enslavement...

This week we discuss the final chapters of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the conclusion of our three part series.

Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool.

Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine...

It is clear that our activism has been largely fruitless for the past few decades but what should we be doing instead?


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This week we discuss chapters two and three of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the second of a three part series.

Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool.

Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine...

This week we discuss the introduction and first chapter of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the first of a three part series.

Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool.

Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine...

This week Chris is temporarily replaced by a special guest that long time listeners will remember from the early days of the pod, Jenny.

The gang talks about the loneliness of social distancing, the long term effects of pandemic based hyper-alienation, and  what the political prospects moving forward look like.

Society of the Spectacle (sections 28, 172, 221)

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society...