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 16 hours 4 minutes
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Support the showepisode 1: Unimaginable Horrors and the Terrors of the Global (Liquid Fear Part II)
Happy December, I just finished my semester and finally got around to mastering this episode that we recorded a couple months ago. We are revisiting this masterwork of left sociology by heavyweight Polish intellectual and dissident Marxist, Zygmunt Bauman who is a harsh critic of late capitalist modernity...
episode 2: The Boys Win the Culture War- With Matthew from A Fine Old Conflict
We got together with our old friend and comrade from the Trot sect days to talk about why it is that the nominally socialist left is so obsessed with liberal culture war discourse.
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episode 3: The Dialectics of Wood Law: Marxism and Natural Law with Steven
Steven from Supreme Leap Forward is back and this time he's bringing his thoughts on natural law. For this weeks episode we read from Olúfémi Táíwò's Legal Naturalism and an article by Anna Lukina to prepare for this discussion.
Olúfémi Táíwò. 2015. Legal Naturalism : A Marxist Theory of Law. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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episode 4: No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism -- Part I
No Royal Road is back!
Varn joins Chris and Jason to discuss Evegny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." This is the first of what will probably be a multi part series.
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episode 5: No Republic is Safe That Tolerates a Privileged Class: On Marxist Republicanism
We return to the concept of the republic, this time with our comrade Brad who is a member of the CPUSA, a union activist, and first class republic respecter. Brad is here to make a pitch for the continuation of a revolutionary tradition that is steeped in revolutionary republicanism.
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episode 6: Setting Fears Afloat (Liquid Fear: Part III -- Finale)
The boys are back and we are finally finishing this masterwork of left sociology by heavyweight Polish intellectual and dissident Marxist, Zygmunt Bauman.
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episode 7: No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism (Part II)
No Royal Road is back!
Varn joins Chris and Jason to discuss the second part of Evegny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason."
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episode 8: Les Aristocrates à la Lanterne: The French Pension Reforms (With Matthew from A Fine Old Conflict)
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This week we discuss why the left allows the liberals to set the tone for its politics.
Liberalism’s Hegemony Over The Left
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