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
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 13 hours 53 minutes
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episode 18: The Open Road to the Stars: A Discussion With Donald Parkinson of Cosmonaut Magazine
This week Chris and Jason sit down with Donald Parkinson-- the managing editor of Cosmonaut Magazine-- to discuss post apocalyptic eco-war communism, rekindling the Utopian imagination, the need for a post-tradition socialist movement, The DSA, The Marxist Center, Mike McNair, and some of the reasons Donald thinks we shouldn't be so pessimistic.
Cosmonaut Magazine
https://cosmonaut.blog/
Outro Music: Eduard Artemyev- Lullaby
episode 17: The People's Commissariat for Gettin' It On: Sexual Radicalism and Liberation Under 20th Century Socialism
This week the gang talks about the radical liberatory programs of the Bolsheviks, the failure of these programs, the conservative reaction of Stalin, and the renewed blossoming of these ideas in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War...
episode 16: Lawyerization and Its Discontents: A Discussion on Marxist Jurisprudence with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward
Kevin and Chris sat down with our old friend Steven; an attorney, Marxist and host of the defunct(ish?) Supreme Leap Forward Podcast to discuss Marxist criminology, prison, cops, and Soviet jurisprudence. We ultimately conclude that cops suck, prisons suck, the law is dumb, and the concept of the lumpenproletariat is something that we need to keep arguing about...
episode 15: The Uses and Abuses of Identity Politics
This week Jenny makes the case that there are "good" and bad types of identity politics and we discuss the redeemable and irredeemable aspects of them. Ultimately, we come to conclusions that are sure to get us canceled by workerists and idpol-libs alike.
Which... doesn't matter because will have all been boiled alive by rising oceans of acidic seawater long before we ever figure any of this out...
episode 13: Gothic Marxism and Marxist Romanticism: Horror, Witches, and Gothic Fascism
In part two of our discussion we finally get around to talking about horror movies, Jenny talks about Caliban and the Witch a lot more, and Chris brings that conversation back to fascism... again.
The outro music is Lords of the New Church- Open Your Eyes
Towards A Gothic Marxism I – On Monsters
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episode 12: Gothic Marxism and Marxist Romanticism: Embracing All That Makes Us Human
In this episode we talk about Marxist romanticism and the gothic strain in Marxism, or "gothic Marxism." We attempt to salvage the detritus of bourgeois society and the broken dreams of generations of the defeated to piece together a vision of world worth fighting for...
episode 11: Disagreements With the Unabomber
This week we dive deep into eco-terrorism / green anarchy / primitivism, and discuss why we think the Unambomber had some good points while also disagreeing with him, a lot.
Anti-Civ folks would tell you that the problems that plague humanity begin with the industrial revolution and that we need to go back to hunter/gatherer societies...
episode 10: Strasserism, National Bolshevism, and Third Positionism (Part II of II)
We pick up where we left off last week; discussing Russian Nazbols, American Third Positionism, and the re-emphasizing the need to speak with clarity about this topic of dire importance.
Listen to Part II of a II part series, in which we think out loud about the history and politics of fascist anti-capitalism.
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A short list of some of the material referenced for the show:
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episode 9: Strasserism, National Bolshevism, and Third Positionism (Part I of II)
Yes there is an anti-capitalist right and leftists need to stop being so confused when rightists are opposed to, or critical of, capitalism.
Listen to Part I of a II part series, in which we think out loud about the history and politics of the Strasserites, Nazbols, European New Right, and Third Positionists.
https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury
A short list of some of the material referenced for the show:
Payne, Stanley G...
episode 8: EPISODE 0: Capitalist Realism, Our Original First Episode.
Behold, our original intro episode! Jason and Chris talk about their motivations for creating the podcast and dive into Mark Fisher's book "Capitalist Realism."
Fisher argues that after 1989 capitalism was able to present itself as the only option and warped our reality to fit that claim. We talk about how he was right.
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