
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 salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
-- Antonio Gramsci
Podcasting since 2018 • 271 episodes
The Regrettable Century
Latest Episodes
Bring the Race-War Home: Foreign Fighters, Neo-Nazi Networks, and Domestic Terrorism
This week Chris and Jason read and discussed a paper Chris wrote for a strategic studies project about neo-Nazi terror networks and their links to far-right militias in Ukraine. The influx of foreign fighters to Ukraine since the be...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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1:11:45

Patreon Preview -- Regrettable Geopolitics - 03/09/2025 (a little Syria, a little Europe, and a lot of Russia/Ukraine)
Another lightly edited casual conversation about geopolitics. We do a whirlwind summary of the stuff that has happened since last week and land back on the subject of Ukraine for most of the program.
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Season 7
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17:21

From Dawn to Decadence (Part III): With Varn Vlog *UNLOCKED*
The boys and Varn Vlog are back again, talking about "Decadence Theory" and how it differs from "crisis theory" and "breakdown theory." We discuss Samir Amin's third-worldist (and not very Marxist) take on decadence theory.Revolution or ...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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1:51:46

Patreon Preview -- Regrettable Geopolitics 03/01/2025 (Ukraine: Trump vs Zelensky, Manpower Crisis, Dictatorship, Attritional Warfare)
Welcome to a new series that we are trying out for Patrons. This is a lightly edited casual conversation between Jason and Chris about Geopolitics. We aren't really preparing for these by doing a lot of research and we certainly aren't doing mu...
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Season 7
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25:16

The Neverending Pursuit of Truth: T.G. Masaryk's Challenge to Marxism
This week we discussed the thought of one of 20th-century Marxism's socialist opponents, Tomáš Masaryk. Masaryk was reviled by Czech communists until they appropriated him and he was an opponent of capitalism until the champions of capitalism d...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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1:27:19
