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 2: Wally B as a Vibe: Discussing Walter Benjamin with the Subjective Conditions Podcast
This week we've got a podcast that we recorded with Subjective Conditions a few months ago. This podcast deals with Walter Benjamin as a vibe and, in true Regrettable Century fashion, the discussion is guided by the World Spirit.
Check out Subjective Conditions here:
https://www.patreon.com/subjectiveconditions/posts
Check out Autumn Brigade here:
https://autumnbrigade.bandcamp.com/album/geist-ist-tot
episode 3: The Boys Solve the Israel-Palestine "Conflict"
Not really, but we do talk about the history of Zionism as a settler colonial project.
Pappe, Ilan. “The Framing of the Question of Palestine by the Early Palestinian Press: Zionist Settler-Colonialism and the Newspaper Filastin, 1912-1922.” The Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies : a Multidisciplinary Journal 14, no. 1 (2015): 59–81. https://doi.org/10.3366/hlps.2015.0104...
episode 4: UNLOCKED- Victorious February: Lessons from the Czechoslovak Revolution (Czechoslovak Socialism Part I of III)
This is a Patreon episode that we recorded in April of 2022. We decided to post this on our main feed at the request of several of our patrons who said more people should hear it.
Continuing in the spirit of our discussion about the synthesis of socialism from above and below, we decided to dive a bit deeper into a topic that we have referenced many times in passing...
episode 5: One Plus One Is Three: The Poverty of "Third Campism"
As recovering third campists ourselves, we sit down to discuss the lingering problems that the third camp of Trotskyism has always had and how the are much dumber in their contemporary incarnation.
Resignation from the Fourth International - Natalia Sedova Trotsky
https://www.marxists.org/archive/sedova-natalia/1951/05/09.htm
Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity https://socialistforum...
episode 6: The Broken Bones of Belief: Why They Left the Left
This week the boys got together to talk about political apostasy. From the old left, to the new left, to whatever the hell it is that we have now. We discuss the motivations and consequences of jumping ship.
The Ex-Communist’s Conscience https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1950/ex-communist.htm
Turned Around: Why Leftists Go Right https://www.newyorker...
episode 7: Internet Psychobabble and its Consequences (Have Been a Disaster for the Human Race)
This week we sat down with our old comrade and actual Psychiatrist, Dr Byron, to talk about mental health, the left, and how TikTok is ruining everyones brains.
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness (review for relevant book)
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/03/psychiatric-hegemony-marxist-theory-mental-illness/
What the Anti-Psychiatry Movement Got Wrong About Mental Illness
https://jacobin...
episode 8: A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Intro to Ernst Bloch (with Jon Greenaway aka thelitcritguy)
This week we are joined by Jon (thelitcritguy of HorrorVanguard fame) to discuss his new book A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch which was just released on Zero Books. We discuss nihilism, optimism, hope, and dialectical pessimism and the ever pertinent work of Ernst Bloch.
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