The Regrettable Century

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.

https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury

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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 12 hours 27 minutes

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episode 6: Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #1 (With C. Derick Varn)


Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn.

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.

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https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge...


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 January 4, 2021  1h15m
 
 

episode 5: Happiness Industry Socialism


Everyone knows what the happiness industry is, that vapid misapplication of eastern spiritual practice, adapted to help stave off deaths by despair or convince you that alienated depression is the fault of your brain chemistry and not the crushing weight of capitalism.
As the contemporary left is little more than liberalism turned up to 11, it should surprise no one to learn that there is a "socialist" version of this as well...


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 December 28, 2020  1h14m
 
 

PATREON TEASER: The Immortal Science of Driving a Tank


Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables. 

We were joined by some of our choicest patrons to discuss the fine distinctions between genres of Tankie.  

Join us on our Discord to plan out to plan out the next one, then remember to come join in the discussion. All patrons are welcome!

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 December 24, 2020  5m
 
 

episode 4: Subject, Alienation, and So On (PART II): Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library)


This week we continue our discussion about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists...


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 December 21, 2020  33m
 
 

episode 3: Subject, Alienation, and So On: Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library) PART I


This week we are joined by Alex and Adam from Red Library to talk about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists...


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 December 14, 2020  1h11m
 
 

episode 2: Mammon No 5: The Enchantments of Mammon - Part V (With Red Library)


This week we are joined by Adam, Don, and Alex from the Red Library.

We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity...


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 December 7, 2020  2h19m
 
 

PATREON TEASER: Disaster Nationalism


We read Richard Seymour's Article from Salvage Quarterly about Disaster Nationalism and talked about it. Tune in to hear about  the Chad Nationalism’ of ‘sexy’, ‘dangerous’, gym-hitting boys, zaddy fascism, and listen while we parse rightisms and talk about how Trump and the GOP (still) aren't fascists. 

https://salvage.zone/articles/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/

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 November 27, 2020  5m
 
 

episode 1: Hegel's Bastards: Sam Teaches Us About Hegel Like We are Dumb Babies


We are dumb babies who don't understand Hegel. Sam, who recently joined our network as a part of the Red Library's The Red Desert series is not. He sat down with us and helped us understand some key Hegelian concepts that he posits need to be understood in order to continue the radicalization of Marxism.

Mladan Dolar on The Phenomenology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6sG1nw0m_w

 Lecture on the Zizek chapter below.
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 November 24, 2020  1h16m
 
 

episode 32: A Journal of the Plague Year: Year Two of the Regrettable Century


Hey everyone, we turned two!
You guys keep listening to us for some reason and we are happy about it. For our birthday party we sat down to talk about highlights, lowlights, and what we hope to do in the future.
Please enjoy the very last episode of year two before we kick off what we hope will be an exciting and fruitful year three!

Music: Modern Life is War- Night Shift at the Potato Factory

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 November 15, 2020  1h17m
 
 

episode 31: A Smattering of Unqualified Thoughts About the Election


We recorded an episode, about something else, but in the process we talked about the election for 45 minutes. Here it is!

Keep in mind this episode was recorded as results were coming in on the day after the election.

Music: Bad Religion- Fuck Armageddon

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 November 10, 2020  39m