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S3 Ep 5Happiness Industry Socialism
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
PATREON TEASER: The Immortal Science of Driving a Tank
trailerHead 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
S3 Ep 4Subject, Alienation, and So On (PART II): Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library)
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
S3 Ep 3Subject, Alienation, and So On: Psychoanalysis in Dialogue With Marxism (With Adam and Alex from Red Library) PART I
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
S3 Ep 2Mammon No 5: The Enchantments of Mammon - Part V (With Red Library)
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
PATREON TEASER: Disaster Nationalism
trailerWe 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
S3 Ep 1Hegel’s Bastards: Sam Teaches Us About Hegel Like We are Dumb Babies
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
S2 Ep 32A Journal of the Plague Year: Year Two of the Regrettable Century
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
S2 Ep 31A Smattering of Unqualified Thoughts About the Election
bonusWe 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
PATREON TEASER: Conspiranoia! - Patron Roundtable
trailerHead 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
S2 Ep 30Supreme Leap Backward: Why the Supreme Court is Actually Very Bad (with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward)
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
S2 Ep 29The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part IV (with Red Library)
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
S2 Ep 28The Role of the Individual in the End of the End of History
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
S2 Ep 27Can Woke Capitalism Save the World?
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
S2 Ep 26UNLOCKED: Science Impregnated With History- PART II, Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)
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
PATREON TEASER: Everything is Recuperated
trailerWe 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
S2 Ep 25The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part III (With Red Library)
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
S2 Ep 24Aut Caesar, Aut Christus: Christian Marxism, Liberation Theology, and Catholic Communism (With Mir Bal)
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
PATREON TEASER: Science Impregnated With History PART II
trailerHead 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
S2 Ep 23The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part II (With Red Library)
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
S2 Ep 22Science Impregnated With History: Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)
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
S2 Ep 21The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity - Part I (with Red Library)
This week we are joined by Adam from the Red Library podcast, who was nice enough to record and edit the episode for us. We start our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. McCarraher believes, much like Max Weber, that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world, but unlike Weber, he believes that Capitalism then became a religion itself. He argues that capitalism is full of religious thinking that grew up in the fields and factories of England, was transported to America by the Puritans, and perfected by evangelicals. We think this topic is right up our alley and have had a blast reading and talking about it. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print. 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
S2 Ep 20We Never Learned Anything About Lacan (with Neil of From 78)
Lacanian psychoanalysis has left an indelible mark on the left, with prominent philosophers like Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou keeping a Marxist Lacanianism relevant... and we don't really know anything about it. As the only non Lacanian podcast on the Lost Horizons network, we had to look to our network comrade Neil to get a little bit of an understanding. Turin Theory of the Subject of the School http://www.amp-nls.org/page/gb/60/the-turin-theory-of-the-subject-of-the-school Music: ROME- We who fell in love with the sea 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
S2 Ep 19The End of Policing?
Last week, we read and discussed The End of Policing by Alex Vitale in order to get a better grasp on the history of the police, over-policing, the failure of technocratic reforms, and some of the ideas for the uses of funds after police defunding (be it partial or wholesale). Whether or not the revolt against the police will produce lasting systematic reform reform remains to be seen, but we have to admit that the conversation about how to fix the problem of policing has begun on favorable footing. Vitale, Alex S. The end of policing. London Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2017. 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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 18We Are All Unclean: On Covid Vigilantism and Burning Cop Cars
While we were reading about Covid 19 in Salvage last week, an uprising against police brutality began in Minneapolis. We didn't (don't) know what to make of it yet, but it sure did take over a discussion that was supposed to be about pestilence and the left's role in troll vigilantism. Listen to our uninformed and incomplete takes from day one of the unrest. We have a much more complete and thought out take coming for you in a few days. We Are All Unclean- Salvage Editorial Collective https://salvage.zone/articles/we-are-all-unclean-dispatch-two-from-a-changing-world/ 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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 17Tragedy, Farce, and Apocalypse: The Shambling Corpse of Bonapartism- With C. Derick Varn
We are joined by veteran of the podcast wars, C. Derick Varn, for his third appearance on the show, to talk a little about historical Bonapartism and a little more about contemporary Bonapartism. We talked about the contemporary left's perceived need to seek out a Bonapartist savior and drift further and further from the utopian horizons we once sought. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ Music: Cro Mags- Hard Times Pop the Left- With Douglas Lain and C. Derick Varn https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2019-11-25T07_11_58-08_00 The Emancipation Network http://emancipation.network/ 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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 16A Time of Monsters: More Marxist Theories of Fascism
Marxism had always contained within it a multiplicity of variations and is possessed, in equal parts, of the potential to be used for illumination and obfuscation. Nothing more clearly illustrates this than the early responses of Marxists to fascism. In our third installment of our series on the history of fascism, we dive into some more Marxist theories of fascism; specifically the German and Austrian Social Democratic Theories, Trotsky and Thalheimer, and then wrap up with a bit of Horkheimer. Our primary source of info for this episode is this wonderful book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1233-marxists-in-the-face-of-fascism 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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 15The Angel of History: Walter Benjamin, Myth, Rationality, and Modernity-- With Patrick from the Radical Thoughts Podcast
This week we sat down with Patrick of the Radical Thoughts Podcast to talk about Walter Benjamin and his ideas of myth and rationality, capitalism as religion, and a number of other disconnected things that were just fun to talk about. Please check out Radical Thoughts as they read through the entire Zero Books Radical Thinkers series and subscribe to their patreon for bonus episodes. https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts/posts Capitalism and Religion- https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/capitalism-as-religion-benjamin-1921/ Benjamin, Walter, et al. Selected writings. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1996. Benjamin, Walter, and Rolf Tiedemann. The arcades project. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1999. Print. 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

S2 Ep 14Lost Horizons Network Roundtable: Well... Here we are, still, after all (EPISODE I)
This week we have something special for you guys, our very first Lost Horizons Network collective podcast release, Here We Are Together, Still...After All. Join Chris and Jason from The Regrettable Century, Adam from Red Library, and Neil from the From78 Podcast as we talk about what it means to be dialectically pessimistic. 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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

S2 Ep 13BONUS- A Rising Every Generation: James Connolly, the Easter Rising, and Irish Republican Socialism
On Easter Monday, April 24 1916, 1,200 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army mustered in Dublin and declared the formation of the Irish Republic. Marxist and Irish Republican, James Conolly, led the Irish Citizen's Army in hopes that the Easter Rising would touch off a revolution in Ireland that would lead to the establishment of a Workers' Republic, the death of the British Empire, and the beginning of a socialist world revolution. Over a century later, Ireland is still ruled in the north by what remains of the British Empire, The Republic of Ireland is a Bankers' Republic, and hopes for the world revolution are a nostalgic memory... for now. Manifesto of the Irish Socialist Republican Party (Connolly): https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1896/xx/isrp.htm Connolly and the Paris Commune https://jacobinmag.com/2016/04/james-connolly-paris-commune-easter-rising-tactics?fbclid=IwAR2NFon_XDCsFniTFdsVD1qM_u3m23fbJ88qKzokacYaSqghGlaPIAevu40 Socialism Made Easy (Connolly) -- the only long-ish one: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/james-connollys-socialism-made-easy-1909-11-political-action-labor Easter Rising Proclamation (original text): https://www.onthisday.com/photos/easter-proclamation-of-1916 Socialism and Nationalism (Connolly):| https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/01/socnat.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/xx/scirenat.htm Socialism and Religion (Connolly): https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1901/evangel/socrel.htm Socialism in Ireland (Connolly): https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/03/socinire.htm Direct Action in Belfast (Connolly): Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
PATREON TEASER: Four Theses on the Comrade
trailerThis week, Jenny, Chris, and Jason read and discussed Jodi Dean's essay: The Four Theses on the Comrade. A comrade is much more than an identity that one adopts. It is an ethos, an ideal for the collective reorganization of the world. We talk about how this is a concept that the left has abandoned and needs to find again. Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the full episode. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 12The Church of the Better Apocalypse
The old world is dying and a new one is being created before our eyes. Thus far, the left has had little if any input into this process. If we don't insert ourselves into the conversation with great haste, a much worse version of our current hellscape will be the outcome. What kind of project will be necessary to salvage the useful pieces of detritus needed to build a better world? To that end, we sat down with our good friend Michael to talk about how to build a better post-apocalyptic world. The Mask of the Red Death: Dispatch One from a Changing World- Salvage Editorial Board https://salvage.zone/articles/the-mask-of-the-red-death-dispatch-one-from-a-changing-world/ The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene- Salvage Editorial Board https://salvage.zone/editorials/the-tragedy-of-the-worker-towards-the-proletarocene/ Under coronavirus, pro market ideologies are overturned around the world, But its too little, too late. - Jeff Sparrow https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/26/under-coronavirus-pro-market-ideologies-are-overturned-around-the-world-but-its-too-little-too-late?fbclid=IwAR0i6X8SfuLdlHyc119RYYlEqMUsT8XCBnK9ZsnFWJkjIagNCqC4D3YrYWM The world after coronavirus- Yuval Noah Harari https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?fbclid=IwAR2f2bCCh3iBuc61PT_Nt4zLbthYaPQuodJsg0ee6Qwoocln65faxeK0cpY A Greater Depression? Nouriel Roubini https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-greater-great-depression-by-nouriel-roubini-2020-03?fbclid=IwAR2f6pVYUmXeacbcOx3TTobG_0vZodG0MVoJ2VrxVqtZPBcshLSQdapm3Vw Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 11Marxism Against the Tide of Modernity: Uniting the Promethean and Romantic (PART II) With Donald Parkinson
(PART II) The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning. Löwy, Michael, and Robert Sayre. Romanticism against the tide of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. The Word, the Devil, and the Flesh- JD Bernal https://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/ Music: Alyans- Na Zare Cosmonaut Magazine https://cosmonaut.blog/ Cosmopod Podcast https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/ Radical Thoughts Podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/patricks-podcast Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
PATREON TEASER: Scattered Thoughts on Electoralism, Coronavirus, and What to Do Next With CPUSA Brad
trailerJenny, Chris, and Jason sat down with our friend, rank and file union organizer, and CPUSA member Brad to talk about electoralism and what the hell to do next. Please head over to our Patreon and subscribe for the insanely low fee of $2 a month to hear the rest. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 10Marxism Against the Tide of Modernity: Uniting the Promethean and Romantic (with Donald from Cosmonaut)
The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning. Löwy, Michael, and Robert Sayre. Romanticism against the tide of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. The Word, the Devil, and the Flesh- JD Bernal https://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/ Music: ROME- The Accidents of Gesture Cosmonaut Magazine https://cosmonaut.blog/ Cosmopod Podcast https://cosmopod.libsyn.com/ Radical Thoughts Podcast https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/patricks-podcast Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 9Pashukanis and the Origins of Soviet Legal Theory (with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward)
Our good friend and regular contributor to the show, Steven, brings his legal expertise and knowledge of early soviet law history to this weeks episode. We discuss the Evgeny Pashukanis, Pytor Stuchka, and their contributions to legal theory in the days just after the revolution. There was a debate among legal theorists of the time about whether it is possible to construct a socialist legal system and how the law should be used in a socialist society. Ultimately, Pashukanis would wind up on the losing side of the Socialism in One Country debate and would die for it. Intro to Pashukanis https://www.dropbox.com/s/v4hto1qm5seti8o/Beirne%20%2B%20Sharlet_%20Introduction%20to%20Pashukanis%20%281979%29.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1AhfJGWw_YlZTFc6upxEp1g0eckeoXIISoJcatXx0RLub3rHholnE-LNk The Passionate Legal Debates of the Early Years of... https://www.dropbox.com/s/58i5wg5uohkz43z/The%20Passionate%20Legal%20Debates%20of%20the%20Early%20Years%20of%20the%20Russian%20Revolution.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR05HcbLIu75Un3jH5t1KL8fJJCgMTKSd_Q2Ig5BpxkPmTJOvpAend6OpN8 The trajectory of Yevgeniy Pashukanis and the struggle for power in Soviet law https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6lbz606491nn60/The_trajectory_of_Yevgeniy_Pashukanis_an.docx.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1XD0XBMopt0ifkxOUV_iBVVN_1XLrq6TJk1BYyeiz7qcOW2kw3Ra7uaTE Principles of Soviet Criminal Law https://www.dropbox.com/s/pxedstwf8pum00f/Principles%20of%20Soviet%20Criminal%20Law%2C%20Berman%2C%20Harold%20J%2056YaleLJ803.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1QWhZuohuU2cmfsLJzfArICrrZgeirgnVqEwdO7iFSgcZ_nDQeTHZeBkk Looking Back And Forward At The Turn of the Century https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldjvuuchv4krvha/15AustlJLSocy101.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR0vVUJaaPTGVRdwPXFLTNavu8UgH0XrG1QV7_vxg60Pq2WfJunQ6K_9HTE Dont forget to check out our podcast network comrades: From 78 https://twitter.com/From78podcast Red Library https://twitter.com/RedLibraryPod And coming soon, our network website... https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/ Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 8We Would Prefer Not To: Against a Politics of Catharsis- UNLOCKED
We had an episode planned where we were going to talk about the Bolsheviks and Early Soviet Law, but our main law dude (Steven from Supreme Leap Forward) got deathly ill and bailed on us. So, we are unlocked one of our Patreon episodes. Please forgive us, but trust that we have some good stuff coming up. Sometimes doing something (anything!) is much worse than doing nothing; we really need to figure out when that is. We read and thought and talked about an article that admonishes us to think and talk and read before acting. We have to stand against a politics of catharsis, a politics that does nothing but makes us feel like we are making a difference. But... then what do we do? I Would Prefer Not To: Žižek’s Bartleby Politics https://medium.com/@mdowns1611/i-would-prefer-not-to-%C5%BEi%C5%BEeks-bartleby-politics-12bd8d9de66a Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 7Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia: With Adam from Red Library (Part II)
This week we continue our discussion of Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia by Darko Suvin with our podcast network comrade, Adam from Red Library. Please Check out and subscribe to Red Library and From 78 and be on the lookout for more updates concerning the Lost Horizons Network. Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left From 78 Podcast Suvin, Darko. Splendour, misery, and possibilities : an X-ray of socialist Yugoslavia. Leiden Boston: Brill, 2016. A UTOPIA IN THE BALKANS -- CATHERINE SAMARY https://newleftreview.org/issues/II114/articles/catherine-samary-a-utopian-in-the-balkans Splendours, Miseries, and Potentialities of Socialist Yugoslavia- The Berlin Thesis https://www.corsoitalia7.it/2017/03/splendours-miseries-and-potentialities-of-socialist-yugoslavia-the-berlin-theses1/ The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism -- James Robertson https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkans 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
S2 Ep 6Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia: With Adam from Red Library (Part I)
We read and discussed Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia by Darko Suvin with Adam from Red Library. This incredibly dense book was a wealth of theoretical and historical knowledge about one of our favorite subjects, Yugoslavia. The SFRY defies neat categorization and the more we learn about it the more questions we have about the process of transition to communism, workers' self management, radical democracy, markets, and state socialism. It is the perfect meditative subject for a podcast that continually implores Marxists to stop being so certain of everything. Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's Left From 78 Podcast Suvin, Darko. Splendour, misery, and possibilities : an X-ray of socialist Yugoslavia. Leiden Boston: Brill, 2016. A UTOPIA IN THE BALKANS -- CATHERINE SAMARY https://newleftreview.org/issues/II114/articles/catherine-samary-a-utopian-in-the-balkans Splendours, Miseries, and Potentialities of Socialist Yugoslavia- The Berlin Thesis https://www.corsoitalia7.it/2017/03/splendours-miseries-and-potentialities-of-socialist-yugoslavia-the-berlin-theses1/ The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism -- James Robertson https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkans Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 5Socialism Without Sacrifice and Other Fake Futures We are Against
In this episode we revisit the topic of Fully Automated Luxury Communism with our friend Annaliese. While we are already on the record opposing the viability and desirability of a socialism without sacrifice, we decided to make a few more critiques we didn't think of making last time, but we also talk a bit about what kinds of futures we would like to see, the nature of work and leisure time, and how much it would suck to have robots do everything. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
PATREON TEASER: On the Flinching of Cowards and Sneering of Traitors- Part II
trailerHead over to Patreon and sign up for $2 a month to hear the second part of the discussion. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 4On The Flinching of Cowards and Sneering of Traitors: BONUS EPISODE!
bonusThe British left was epically owned last month in one of the crappiest election results in several generations. While the reaction to this defeat has been largely one of despair and feelings of rudderlessness, we make the case that this is just one in a long line of defeats we will inevitably suffer. Unless we gird ourselves for defeat with a dialectical pessimism, there's no way we will last long enough to make a real difference. Head over to Patreon and sign up for $2 a month to hear the second part of the discussion. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury This Is Why We Hate You: December Editorial https://salvage.zone/articles/this-is-why-we-hate-you-december-editorial/?fbclid=IwAR0Asf5cKmEYUPcpZE59vzZeKToaC-N7dSDyCdt4X_oiH78AXX24E0ntgYk No False Consolations https://novaramedia.com/2019/12/13/no-false-consolations/?fbclid=IwAR3tuTEtTBK4husLxkYnPz3-vmHY-sCbH0MQGi-EijWxYnbWNq_9lAXPWwg The Last Gasp of Labourism https://left-flank.org/2019/12/13/anti-politics-the-last-gasp-of-british-labourism/?fbclid=IwAR3bHVCrKBS4-F5Tn3ctP_EBW2PUMEpdczUrNJ_cwHCYg-n8Owa1ckpT3uQ Class War Corbynism https://newsocialist.org.uk/class-war-corbynism/?fbclid=IwAR2h7UpFSSEXdywDypP2GSkI6y7aGnM8rCXWl3O-1lQwSx__6uz8aBGKxpw Corbyn’s Defeat and the Democratic Socialists of America https://newpol.org/corbyns-defeat-and-the-democratic-socialists-of-america/?fbclid=IwAR3QaQI_ORrdrLB37PyS4RNu1SELKDkI4ZkiWHkWBluUUdriWhRig0DNwuw What the U.S. Left Can Learn From the Labour Party’s Epic Loss http://inthesetimes.com/article/22220/labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-boris-johnson-uk-brexit-bernie-sanders-left?fbclid=IwAR1w5wzfIZEMiLDXoiI8NPqXQTs3rVPaCFBcWiJd-IiSEvBbucEaoMMyR6k What the U.K. Election Does (and Doesn’t) Teach Democrats https://novaramedia.com/2019/12/13/no-false-consolations/?fbclid=IwAR116Li6Pft50XlzAt4oy5No3DT6E43BJdFfb_C6eoF1nuAOtyssFFQUyOU Music: Oi Polloi- (Expletive Deleted) Everybody Who Voted Tory Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
PATREON TEASER: Socialism In One Country- With C. Derick Varn: Part II
trailerWherein we continue our discussion with Derick. Head on over tour our Patreon and sign up for $2 a month to check it out. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 3Socialism in One Country, but then like All the Countries: With C. Derick Varn
The boys--all the good ones--sat down with C. Derick Varn of Pop the Left and the Symptomatic Redness (which can be found on the Zero Books podcast feed) to talk about Socialism in One Country and/or Socialist Internationalism. We tackled the topic that has plagued the workers' movement from the early days of the Socialist International and wrapped it up quite nicely. We have answered the national question and can now proceed forward to proletarian victory. Please check out Part II of our discussion on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury Socialism in One Country: A Reassessment -- Erik Van Ree 'SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY' -- Jean Paul Sartre (NLR) Cuba, Che Guevara, and the Problem of “Socialism in One Country” -- Ron Augustin https://monthlyreview.org/2019/01/01/cuba-che-guevara-and-the-problem-of-socialism-in-one-country/ Yugoslav Self-Management: Capitalism Under the Red Banner -- Juraj Katalenac http://insurgentnotes.com/2013/10/yugoslav-self-management-capitalism-under-the-red-banner/ Socialism in One Country & The Cuban Revolution -- Celia Hart http://links.org.au/node/26 Trotsky and the Debate on Socialism in One Country -- Monty Johnstone (NLR) The Revolution Betrayed Appendix: “Socialism in One Country” -- Leon Trotsky, 1936 https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch12.htm Socialism in One Country versus Permanent Revolution -- Stalin, 1925 http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/industrialization-debate/industrialization-debate-texts/socialism-in-one-country-versus-permanent-revolution/ On Permanent Revolution -- Bukharin, 1924 https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1924/permanent-revolution/index.htm Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 2Partially Automated Regular Communism
Apparently, fully automated luxury communism is more than just a meme. We read some articles about it and decided to have a discussion about its merits and shortfalls. Is a post labor society something that is possible or desirable? Is technology really shifting the base of society in a direction that makes fully automated luxury communism more likely? How do we define the concept of luxury and is it really something we'd like perpetuate? Do we as a civilization, species, or planet even have time for something like this to come to fruition before we face total annihilation? Fully automated luxury communism: a utopian critique https://libcom.org/blog/fully-automated-luxury-communism-utopian-critique-14062015 Fully Automated Luxury Communism — A Review https://medium.com/swlh/fully-automated-luxury-communism-a-review-a127d94dcb9a Is a Post-Work, Post-Scarcity Future Possible? https://www.bookforum.com/print/2602/fully-automated-luxury-communism-by-aaron-bastani-22004 FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM: A MANIFESTO BY AARON BASTANI https://societyandspace.org/2019/09/03/fully-automated-luxury-communism-a-manifesto-by-aaron-bastani/ James Bridle on why technology is creating a new dark age https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17564174/james-bridle-new-dark-age-book-computational-thinking-interview Aaron Bastani’s ‘luxury communism’ is a false future https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/fully-automated-luxury-communism-review Review: Fully Automated Luxury Communism http moo s://www.rs21.org.uk/2019/06/09/review-fully-automated-luxury-communism/ Artificial Stupidity https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/artificial-stupidity/ Inventing The Future https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-algorithmic-communism/ Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
PATREON TEASER: We Would Prefer Not To
trailerSometimes doing something is much worse than doing nothing; we need to figure out when that is. We read and thought and talked about an article that admonishes us to think and talk and read before acting. We have to stand against a politics of catharsis, a politics that does nothing but makes us feel like we are making a difference. Check out the full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S2 Ep 1A Time of Monsters: Marxist Theories of Fascism
Marxism had always contained within it a multiplicity of variations and is possessed, in equal parts, the potential to be used for illumination and obfuscation. Nothing more clearly illustrates this than the early responses of Marxists to fascism. In our second installment of our series on the history of fascism, we dive into some Marxist theories of fascism. Our primary source of info for this episode is this wonderful book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1233-marxists-in-the-face-of-fascism Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S1 Ep 34The Long Halloween: Year One of the Regrettable Century
It is the first birthday of the Regrettable Century! We spent the better part of an hour reflecting on our proud moments, regrets, things we changed our minds about (or didn't), and where we would like to go in the future. We've got some heavy material coming up, so enjoy this comparatively light fare. Music: Every Day is Halloween- Ministry Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S1 Ep 33Anti-Communism Without Communism
The movement for proletarian self emancipation is at a low ebb, but in a testament to how stupid and bad the world is, Democrats, Republicans, and European post-fascists have ramped up their rhetorical attacks on the pale ghost of the specter of communism. Anti-communism has always been the stand-in ideology for racist authoritarianism and it serves the same purpose now in a world without a global movement to scare the bourgeoisie. Liberals, attempting to stem a nascent socialist movement, would condemn fascism and communism equally, hoping to stamp out a nascent workers' movement. We sat down to talk about how dumb that is. Losurdo vs. The Category of Totalitarianism http://awm.or.kr/bbs/data/document/1/Losurdo___Critique_of_Totalitarianism_(2004).pdf On the false equivalence of fascism and communism https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/bulgaria-fascism-nazism-anticommunism-historical-memory?fbclid=IwAR3KlX0_S-giXERD9s2CvrOk-cV0KkKmhXckAjgxSgT0orSlFOrXWH7U7iA Anticommunism in a world without communism https://www.patreon.com/posts/anticommunism-in-28790447 The New Anti-Communism: Rereading the Twentieth Century https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2811-enzo-traverso-the-new-anti-communism-rereading-the-twentieth-century?fbclid=IwAR2_nrgCygrq0vxJj79ufs4iPJ6ZC8bWSGL83faav1BSKVdP26Jb2eZXhJw Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
S1 Ep 32The Law is Bad; Cops, Courts, All of it
Steven from The Supreme Leap Forward is back to talk about the KKKriminal INjustice CIStem of the United $nakes of AmeriKKKa. We discuss the courts, restorative justice, twitter pileons/call out culture, and a little about Soviet jurisprudence. Steven's essay mentioned in the episode: Understanding Crime Under Capitalism: A Critique of American Criminal Justice and Introduction to Marxist Jurisprudence- Steven Gilmore The Works of Evegny Pshukanis: https://www.marxists.org/archive/pashukanis/index.htm The other episode we did with Steven http://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/220523/989392-lawyerization-and-its-discontents-a-discussion-on-marxist-jurisprudence-with-steven-from-supreme-leap-forward-part-i Kevin and Steven's Marxist Law Podcast featuring Chris Supreme Leap Forward Episode 12 - Game Of Owns and Feudal Law Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop