The Regrettable Century

This week we discuss an article by Ben Davis in Salvage Journal titled The Anarchist in the Network which discusses the pitfalls of organizing in the age of the internet. The extreme atomization of our society has been exacerbated by our social media addictions and our methods of organization against capitalism have suffered as a result. While calls for protests may go viral and enormous crowds may turn out, they lack to coherence needed to bring sustained pressure to bear. There really is no substitute for the patience, discipline, and efficacy that comes from the self organization of the working class. https://salvage.zone/articles/the-anarchist-in-the-network/ Music- Billy Bragg- There Is Power in the Union Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

From the Regrettable Book Club's investigation of the Appendices in Monsieur Dupont's Nihilist Communism . Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions. Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we sat down with Lost Horizons comrade and Red Library Alumnus, Adam to talk about mental illness as a social problem, but we ended up talking about a lot more. We cover the less than stellar performance of SSRIs, Hezychasm, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, communism, exercise, and therapy. Ultimately we concluded that there is no liberation from mental illness without the abolition of capitalism. Turn Illness Into a Weapon https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2013/11/14/turn_illness_into_a_weapon.pdf?fbclid=IwAR32rI-UNxlnfI5-jJDnld9HpLgsu16sdhfjtsEmTsCsa2KTCghV75hoJw8 Depression as a Social Disease https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-is-he-thinking/201802/depression-social-disease?fbclid=IwAR3JZ1zvC1N9Z1kD6fhoPUpxOJRnJNfGsPdAE86gLvYBhKH6VVRNHjdi5xs Capitalism Hits Home: An Interview with Harriet Fraad https://publicseminar.org/essays/capitalism-hits-home-an-interview-with-harriet-fraad/?fbclid=IwAR3Uoiwv3f6ehypnjTtBYNrk8kR6xbBsDHIOVCrS5mwrEpA7YR3k22mSKw8 Music: The Broadways- 15 Minutes Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we continue our series on republicanism and Marxism by discussing the complicated legacy of the American Revolution. Like the bourgeois project as a whole, the historical consequences of the American Revolution have had mixed results. Simultaneously spurring on the cause of human freedom and stifling it, the American Revolution was pregnant with a creative and destructive spirit. As the American Empire appears to be in decline, we ask whether or not things could have gone, or could still go, in another direction. Check out Matthew and Jason's Podcast: A Fine Old Conflict https://afineoldconflict.buzzsprout.com/ War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/domenico-losurdo-war-and-revolution-rethinking-the-twentieth-century.pdf Historical Revisionism and Delegitimation of the Revolutionary and Anticolonial Tradition—A Review of War and Revolution https://sci-hub.se/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21598282.2016.1172752 Liberals and Reactionaries http://www.leninology.co.uk/2011/10/liberals-and-reactionaries.html From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/07/inde-j03.html THE MYTH OF THE “CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION” https://socialistworker.org/2011/12/14/myth-of-the-conservative-revolution Communist and Neo-Babouvist readings of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution https://www.academia.edu/38110441/_Communist_and_Neo_Babouvist_readings_of_the_Enlightenment_and_the_French_Revolution_in_E_Vallance_ed_Remembering_Early_Modern_Revolutions_London_Routledge_2018 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We teamed up with Adam from Red Library in a farewell reading series on Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee. Magee forges a path tread by few in arguing that Hegel was decisively influenced by western esotericism. In this weeks episode we trace the roots of Hermetic tradition from a syncretic cult that blended Greek and Egyptian ideas of magic and spirituality, through figures like Paracelsus, Agrippa, Bruno, Baader, and Böhme. Magee argues that, in order to understand Hegel, we have to view him as a Hermetic thinker. Hopefully this book well help us understand Hegel a little bit better. Magee, Glenn A. Hegel and the hermetic tradition. Ithaca, N.Y. Bristol: Cornell University Press University Presses Marketing distributor, 2008. Music: The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (The Great In The Small) · Current 93 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

From the inaugural episode of our recurring Regrettable Book Club. Our first selection is Monsieur Dupont's Nihilist Communism with which we both agree and also disagree. Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions. Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

It doesn't take much to convince someone that the capitalist system has exhausted its progressive potential and is in a state of decline. There are a number of theories that the prolonged state of crisis of the capitalist system is evidence that capitalism has peaked and is on its way out. While we agree that capitalism has entered a state of decadence, does that necessarily mean that it will collapse completely, and if so will anything good come from it? The Theory of Decline or the Decline of Theory http://libcom.org/library/decadence-aufheben-2#:~:text=In%20our%20view%20this%20theory,critique%20the%20theory%20of%20decadence.&text=Essentially%20the%20theory%20suggests%20that,has%20now%20entered%20its%20decline. Revolution or Decadence (Sami Amin) https://monthlyreview.org/2018/05/01/revolution-or-decadence/ A Framework for the Concept of Decadence of Capitalism (shortest reading) https://www.leftcom.org/en/forum/2013-02-17/a-framework-for-the-concept-of-decadence-of-capitalism ICC Decadence Theory Readings https://en.internationalism.org/tag/28/287/decadence-theory-and-historical-materialism?fbclid=IwAR1bS0PVOixz8j9Lbtfkq7AELvhjOjmMG5COy8sryHHdrAItTcsFi6lbB2M Music: Refused- Protest Song 68 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We sat down with our old friend, comrade, and fellow veteran of Trotskist hyperactivsm to discuss the concept of the Republic and whether or not is still useful to Marxist organizing/theorizing. The era of the bourgeois republic has been a simultaneous process of creation and destruction, of liberation and enslavement. As the final epoch of human civilization reaches its nadir, do we still have any use for the republic? The Constitution & The Class Struggle https://socialistcall.com/2018/11/27/the-constitution-and-the-class-struggle/ Looking at Chris Maisano’s “The Constitution and the Class Struggle” https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/12/02/lenin-and-the-class-point-of-view-looking-at-chris-maisanos-the-constitution-and-the-class-struggle/ Fight The Constitution, Demand a New Republic! https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/03/fight-the-constitution-demand-a-new-republic/ Bill of Rights socialism and the future of the republic https://www.cpusa.org/article/bill-of-rights-socialism-and-the-future-of-the-republic/ Abolish The States https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/abolish-the-states/ Abolish The Senate https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/abolish-the-senate/ Music: Paul Robeson- John Brown's Body A Fine Old Conflict Podcast https://afineoldconflict.buzzsprout.com/ Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we discuss the final chapters of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the conclusion of our three part series. Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool. Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019. Print. Music: Earth Crisis- Destroy the Machines Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

It is clear that our activism has been largely fruitless for the past few decades but what should we be doing instead? Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions. Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we discuss chapters two and three of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the second of a three part series. Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool. Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019. Print. Music: Indecision- Higher Side of Low Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we discuss the introduction and first chapter of the Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour in the first of a three part series. Seymour's book is an extremely black-pilling look into the trolls, e-celebs, pile-ons, live streamed suicide, and corporate surveillance that make up the social media cesspool. Ultimately we conclude that the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Seymour, Richard. The twittering machine. London: The Indigo Press, 2019. Print. Music: Snapcase- Break the Static Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week Chris is temporarily replaced by a special guest that long time listeners will remember from the early days of the pod, Jenny. The gang talks about the loneliness of social distancing, the long term effects of pandemic based hyper-alienation, and what the political prospects moving forward look like. Society of the Spectacle (sections 28, 172, 221) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm The pandemic has unleashed the age of individualism https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/the-pandemic-has-unleashed-the-age-of-individualism-11608132621601.html 22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends” https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/1/20750047/millennials-poll-loneliness?fbclid=IwAR1Z7EBeAAXgcUTw5mUA_eOGIQDk_0dM5GUweA6OOv4Fe1B5gbN8qtpCCnc Pandemic shaming: is it helping us keep our distance? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/04/pandemic-shaming-is-it-helping-us-keep-our-distance?fbclid=IwAR3FsljvgtF4TqI2DbwJvZFBISsKk-7anRcP0YO-f0F8xLsgh2bqEOnRGOU Isolation, Stress, and Poverty: Capitalism and Our Declining Mental Health https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/11/23/isolation-stress-and-poverty-capitalism-and-our-declining-mental-health/ Music: Joy Divison- Isolation Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Half the podcast crew and a couple of the extended family get together to steal a bit joy from the future by thinking aloud as to how a small handful of our myriad problems might begin to be addressed. Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in more discussions like this one. Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Last year during the unrest after George Floyd's murder, we read an article about recuperation and talked about the concept within the context of then unfolding paroxysms of rage against police brutality. Does every movement for social change eventually get recuperated? Yes. Is it still worth engaging in social movements? Also yes. The Recuperation of Authentic Outrage https://libcom.org/library/recuperation-authentic-outrage Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We are now living in the most watched society in history. Our every move is tracked, our conversations monitored, our purchases logged, every link we click is logged, but its okay because its not the government doing it right? You Are Now Remotely Controlled -- Shoshana Zuboff https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html?fbclid=IwAR0N6cbEaABSR2Yb7lEfLRjtWopZQu-bizbl2k7XaJFQOFfwcnV3riBJ7MI Willing servants -- Richard Seymour https://newhumanist.org.uk/5516/willing-servants?fbclid=IwAR3G7zXvBob940xv1ayY1ryPrAfU5Xf5ZU53J2I_bWCwLQ6V8IeUfW_YpEc Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle -- Jodi Dean https://spheres-journal.org/contribution/communicative-capitalism-and-class-struggle/ When the social industry bans the people we hate -- Richard Seymour https://www.patreon.com/posts/27523240?fbclid=IwAR3M5UICw48xJPlsTWW2at96G0LCjSd8lZ1BQUQ_XGqFfFZ-dIb893Twvas Your Phone is Listening and it's Not Paranoia https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia?fbclid=IwAR1UWg7TOU8ocwC1PXYqpBOuVXC9teau250pEynsUPlhyfKGFXwPtXrXb9o Music- Bauhaus- The Spy in the Cab Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Like most other political terms, the word "neoliberal" has been used so much to describe so many disparate things that it has ceased to have meaning. Well, unfortunately neoliberalism is real and it is an economic idea and political project that completely dominates every aspect of modern capitalist society and even our resistance to it. So, listen up and learn what we just learned about how much everything sucks. Varn talks with Mirowski on Symptomatic Redness https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-redness/ep-1-phillip-mirowski-on-neoliberalism/ Harvey on Neoliberalism As a Political Project https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ Interview with Mirowski https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/fixing-old-markets-with-new-markets-the-origins-and-practice-of-neoliberalism.html Mirowski on Neoliberalism https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/02/neoliberalism-movement-dare-not-speak-name/ The Uses and Abuses of “Neoliberalism” https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/uses-and-abuses-neoliberalism-debate Michael Roberts on Neoliberalism https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/neoliberalism-not-so-bad/ https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/neoliberalism-works-for-the-world/ Music: MelonadeM- Garfield Gameboy'd Credits Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 question of the party form. Join us as we solve the party problem. 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! Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Its been said elsewhere that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. Well, that may be true, but it doesn't take much imagining to conceive of the end of the world. We are currently living though the end of the world. Who would have thought it would be so boring? Join us as we lament our collective willingness to go gentle into that good night. Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction IMAGINING THE END https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/imagining-the-end In Defence of Metabolic Rift Theory https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3691-in-defence-of-metabolic-rift-theory#:~:text=One%20Marxist%20line%20of%20inquiry,%2C%20Morristown%2C%20Ohio%2C%201974 Music- Napalm Death: The Brink of Extinction The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined once again by Adam from Red Library for the final episode in our series. We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print. Music- Gregorian Chant for the Dead - Dies irae (Sequentia) -Alessio Randon The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 question of the party form. Join us as we solve the party problem. 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! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we team up with our pal Jess to talk about the mixed legacy of the enlightenment and we ultimately determine that the enlightenment was good and also it was bad. Smith, C. (1996) Hegel Marx and the Enlightenment: An Interim Report https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/interim.htm Sherratt, Y. (2000) ADORNO AND HORKHEIMER’S CONCEPT OF “ENLIGHTENMENT.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 8(3), 521–544. Nielsen, K. (1988) Marx and the enlightenment. Critical Review, 2(4), 59–75. Hook, S. (1968) The Enlightenment and Marxism. Journal of the History of Ideas, Music: The Broadways- 15 Minutes Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from 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. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print. MUSIC: Jesus Christ- Woody Guthrie The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This is the second, but only peripherally related, part of our discussion with C. Derick Varn and PH from Radical Thoughts. In this episode we talk about the abysmal state of the left, the bankruptcy of liberalism, and how the hell we can possibly move forward. The Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not a Triumph https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/capitol-building-riot-business-trump?fbclid=IwAR0G-TkRfpMVUZdLE86-Qky0SWUyBxtGuv7Up_J0lYZkMHBCrtxOVWq2f_A We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-domestic-terrorism-bill-capitol-building?fbclid=IwAR0tDTAFXEstET0cdDGAS4Di-p49jVbUBsaGRa-H1dADcGBjkIWPHu2JQAs The US Capitol riot risks supercharging a new age of political repression https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/14/biden-protest-surveillance-repression?fbclid=IwAR3XSFD5SZJlzZxZKOSiN_p--xko9nLGA1T4D4WtJlkFk5D47GVobcLF588 US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/us-police-use-of-force-protests-black-lives-matter-far-right?fbclid=IwAR2XgiT5WX36LYdW6moSApGcevbhz5ddHpNmiZx8ffC38-eVLUmYzPzwAF8 / Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined by C. Derick Varn, PH from Radical Thoughts Podcast, and Steven from Supreme Leap Forward to discuss how the Capitol Riot wasn't a coup, or a terrorist attack, and admonish the "left" for supporting the expansion of the security state. The Washington Riot Was a Defeat for the Far Right, Not a Triumph https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/capitol-building-riot-business-trump?fbclid=IwAR0G-TkRfpMVUZdLE86-Qky0SWUyBxtGuv7Up_J0lYZkMHBCrtxOVWq2f_A We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-domestic-terrorism-bill-capitol-building?fbclid=IwAR0tDTAFXEstET0cdDGAS4Di-p49jVbUBsaGRa-H1dADcGBjkIWPHu2JQAs The US Capitol riot risks supercharging a new age of political repression https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/14/biden-protest-surveillance-repression?fbclid=IwAR3XSFD5SZJlzZxZKOSiN_p--xko9nLGA1T4D4WtJlkFk5D47GVobcLF588 US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/us-police-use-of-force-protests-black-lives-matter-far-right?fbclid=IwAR2XgiT5WX36LYdW6moSApGcevbhz5ddHpNmiZx8ffC38-eVLUmYzPzwAF8 / Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

There are many on the left who seem to be incapable of letting a momentary upturn in struggle, or a softening of policy by the ruling class, pass without declaring the end of Capitalist realism. The common ruin of the contending classes is all we have to look forward to unless we can find a way to assert our agency. Until we realize our world historic mission, capitalist realism and its devastating consequences are here to stay. On the Current Conjuncture https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4954-on-the-current-conjuncture?fbclid=IwAR0ZSlfzCQnDc43oIjNEKOtnmgsa0i_9_M-D8JXiJybodVBPd5sPSwlGzL4 Capitalist Catastrophism https://roarmag.org/magazine/capitalist-catastrophism/?fbclid=IwAR1ui303CjXt0fvl19Z9iRZH-oOshL4NEUlJU1do-7Fzpb04nxHdYLJWMNE Coronavirus Is the End of the End of History https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/coronavirus-is-the-end-of-the-end-of-history?fbclid=IwAR2iCYlYdPJHfdrXVH9nzGpBld7YU_w8hedK0FPWfEv2OLmpX1bfwSUdJ-Q Music: Good Riddance- After the Nightmare Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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. Marxism and Ethics https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.html Philippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodness” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/#NatuGood Marx’s Ethic of Freedom https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/brenkert.htm Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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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. Marxism and Ethics https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.html Philippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodness” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/#NatuGood Marx’s Ethic of Freedom https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/brenkert.htm Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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. We sat down to talk about how it is dumb and bad. How to pronounce schadenfreude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_DjiLLDfo Left-Wing Hypomania https://thebaffler.com/latest/left-wing-hypomania-chaudhary Is socialism winning? https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/12/is-socialism-winning/ National Political Committee newsletter — 85,000 members strong https://www.dsausa.org/news/npc-newsletter-nov2020/ There Was Actually a Lot of Good News for the Left on Election Day https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/downballot-socialist-elected-election-day-dsa Music: Cro Mags- Face the Facts Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist framework to understand and act upon The world? Join us while we discuss the messy dialectic of Marxism and Psychoanalysis. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Marxism https://studylib.net/doc/8039634/lacanian-psychoanalysis-and-revolutionary-marxism?fbclid=IwAR2nemqbBANbjSBbujrUj13lEfRXiNwLNxOheqF-2lcAHIg8qnt3oj2dnlA Lacan, Psychoanalysis and the Left https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1980/no2-007/collier.html?fbclid=IwAR3vxo07JAlZNdWf9gaGYNzPhEvwoGW--urPkFNAGU6Wo_X3yg3HmVcQwYA The Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalytic Marxism https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/59?fbclid=IwAR3J552MAOY2YZPfGvV06iwa3dfvfltc0-gDloNqFUZHzyCaWFZrYrrpXyo The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist framework to understand and act upon The world? Join us while we discuss the messy dialectic of Marxism and Psychoanalysis. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Marxism https://studylib.net/doc/8039634/lacanian-psychoanalysis-and-revolutionary-marxism?fbclid=IwAR2nemqbBANbjSBbujrUj13lEfRXiNwLNxOheqF-2lcAHIg8qnt3oj2dnlA Lacan, Psychoanalysis and the Left https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1980/no2-007/collier.html?fbclid=IwAR3vxo07JAlZNdWf9gaGYNzPhEvwoGW--urPkFNAGU6Wo_X3yg3HmVcQwYA The Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalytic Marxism https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/59?fbclid=IwAR3J552MAOY2YZPfGvV06iwa3dfvfltc0-gDloNqFUZHzyCaWFZrYrrpXyo The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. In our fifth installment we deal with the Heavenly City of Fordism and the Machine Age. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print. MUSIC: Micah No 5- Apologetix The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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/ Click through to join our Patreon for $2 a month to hear the rest of the discussion. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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. https://youtu.be/gk0A12NYKS8 1. The Hegel Variations by Frederic Jameson - The chapters "Idealism", "Oppositions" and "Spirit as Collectivity" 2. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek - The chapter "Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx" 3. The Restlessness of the Negative by Jean-Luc Nancy - The chapter "Restlessness" 4. Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse - The chapters "Hegel's First system" and "Introduction: From Philosophy to Social Theory" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/reason/reason-and-revolution.pdf 5. Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution by Rebecca Comay - The Introduction "French Revolution, German Misère" 6. Gramsci's Hegelian Marxism by Paul Piccone 7. Hegel and Freud by Alenka Zupančič 8. The Dash by Rebecca Comay & Frank Ruda - The Introduction "Hegel to the Letter" In forwarded email. Music: Cursed- Hegel's Bastards The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c3bf81dd Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Support the show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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. For our second Patron roundtable the crew had a well rounded discussion that included making fun of dumb conspiracies, talking about the myriad of actual conspiracies, and finally what makes conspiratorial logic so appealing to the right and left alike . 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! Materials used in discussion: Jameson, Fredric. The geopolitical aesthetic : cinema and space in the world system. Bloomington London: Indiana University Press BFI Pub, 1992. Print. https://www.d.umn.edu/~cstroupe/ideas/cognitivemap.html Good Conspiracy Documentary Series https://www.fox.com/the-x-files/ Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Steven from The Supreme Leap Forward is back to talk about why the Supreme Court is a regressive, reactionary, and profoundly undemocratic institution that needs to be abolished. Waiting for SCOTUS https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/waiting-for-scotus?fbclid=IwAR1fZ-KItsd9Yfp9d5qGr-8Hr8QTZnkf6e1LCWCaaGIvXHW0JmMJfyULNJo Amy Coney Barrett Worked on Bush v. Gore https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barrett-bush-gore-election-trump?fbclid=IwAR1xku0mvqk2RbgGEm3enLD6O7hkrP_Gl4Mj8fA7rYf6lCkXthUvuWB506c The Future of the Supreme Court in the Liberal Imagination https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/supreme-court-trump-kavanaugh-liberalism?fbclid=IwAR18XUaifhwGcQVU72w9znE581wzvzx4Gz6ExUI5-HHFDORi81sFmhOoKC0 The Scandal of Democracy: Seven Theses https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/supreme-court-senate-electoral-college-undemocratic?fbclid=IwAR1fZ-KItsd9Yfp9d5qGr-8Hr8QTZnkf6e1LCWCaaGIvXHW0JmMJfyULNJo Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from 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. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. In our fourth installment we deal with the populists, socialists, and anarchists during the golden age of the American left. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print. MUSIC: Spacecataz The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

For all of our claims to be historical materialists, there is nothing that the left loves more than a great leader to guide us to victory. If we are to make history, but not in circumstances of our own choosing, what role do we actually have to play as individuals? What role does the extraordinary person play in making history? “History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give rise to one resultant — the historical event.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840) http://history.furman.edu/benson/fywbio/carlyle_great_man.htm On the Role of the Individual in History https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html Karl Marx and his conception of history https://mronline.org/2018/05/11/karl-marx-and-his-conception-of-history/ The individual and the Marxist view of history https://www.marxist.com/the-individual-and-the-marxist-view-of-history.htm Music- Armageddon Blues by Power Trip Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

No. Woke Capitalism Is Not Your Friend https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/brands-corporate-publicity-racial-justice Where Are the Woke Capitalists Now? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/01/where-are-all-woke-capitalists-now Woke Capitalists Can Save America https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/05/how-the-woke-capitalists-can-save-america/#13af4c0671ed The Rise of Woke Capital https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-activism.html Why Corporations Can No Longer Avoid Politics https://time.com/5735415/woke-culture-political-companies/ Woke America Is Pre-Revolutionary Russia https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/woke-america-pre-revolutionary-russia/ Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-free The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we have unlocked the second half of our discussion with Phd Candidate Chris Manno. We discussed the differences between objective, subjective, and instrumental reason and how philosophers have moved through these three in stages culminating in the mercenary use of instrumental reason for the justification of the status quo. Modern philosophy has focused on the latter forms of reason to the point of rejecting any objective understanding on the world, a situation that is tailor made for exploitation of people and the planet under capitalism. Horkheimer, Max. Eclipse of reason. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2013. Print. Marcuse, Herbert. One-dimensional man : studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. Print. Music: The Flying Dutchman Overture- Richard Wagner The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We read an article about recuperation and talked about the concept within the context of the contemporary social unrest that is currently gripping the United States. Does every movement for social change eventually get recuperated? Yes. Is it still worth engaging in social movements? Also yes. To hear the full episode, join our Patreon for $2 a month. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from Red Library, we even had a brief appearance by Kevin. We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. In our third installment we deal with the Robber Barons, corporate personhood, and the birth of American Imperialism. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print. MUSIC: Satyricon- Mother North The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined by Swedish podcaster, activist, social worker, and Christian communist, Mir Bal to talk about Christianity and Marxism. We continue with our unending project of reuniting the cold and the warm streams of Marxism, by talking about the draw of Christians to the liberatory message of Marxism and what Marxists may be able to take away for the liberatory message of radical Christianity. Horn. Western European liberation theology : the first wave (1924-1959. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print. Catholic Case for Communism- Dean Detloff https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/07/23/catholic-case-communism Catholicism and Marx an Introduction- Chase Padusniak https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jappersandjanglers/2017/06/catholicism-marx-introduction/ Marxism and Liberation Theology- Michael Lowy https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Va-4lh8qfXtv-YEDt2VuAGABdPEhBYs7/view?fbclid=IwAR2TMM9Q3FZQpWuyPBGGMvPBP0CgHmQ-LJqRvT8mIXtcEnVG5YLB8zgrqpo MUSIC: Pete Seeger- God Bless the Grass The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear part two of our conversation with Chris! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined once again by Adam from Red Library, but also by fellow Red Librarian Don, who was kind enough to edit the podcast. We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism. In our second installment we deal with with a real who's who list of Mammon worshiping malefactors as well as Puritan covenant theology, Mormonism, and slavery. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print. MUSIC: Satyricon- Mother North The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We had philosophy Phd Candidate Chris Manno join us for a discussion on Marxism and Reason. We discussed the differences between objective, subjective, and instrumental reason and how philosophers have moved through these three in stages culminating in the mercenary use of instrumental reason for the justification of the status quo. Modern philosophy has focused on the latter forms of reason to the point of rejecting any objective understanding on the world, a situation that is tailor made for exploitation of people and the planet under capitalism. Horkheimer, Max. Eclipse of reason. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2013. Print. Marcuse, Herbert. One-dimensional man : studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. Print. Music: Wolves In the Throne Room- Born From the Serpent's Eye The Lost Horizons Network https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ The Lost Horizons Network Podcast Well... Here we are still, after all. https://well.transistor.fm/ Red Library Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/posts From78 Podcast https://www.patreon.com/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop