The Regrettable Century

The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations, both in the realm of cultural and -- apparently -- technological production. Culture has crawled to a halt, its progress replaced by advances in methods of distribution. Technology is bogged down in a cycle of adding additional cameras to the iphone. Has capitalism outlived its progressive potential? (The TLDR is yes) Mark Fisher: The Slow Cancellation Of The Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgkLICTskQ&t=304s David Graeber: Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit We are not living in a technological golden age. https://youtu.be/tvG3dT79TeY Music: Маяк - Выше Звезд Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Check out some Real Nerd Hours when Chris and Jason have a discussion about a not very well known article from an obscure Trotskyist journal written around a decade ago... It generated a little bit of a buzz, but was mostly ignored. We think that was a mistake and we are going to tell you all about why you should care about the decisions of the 10th party congress. https://www.patreon.com/posts/red-jacobins-and-29448338?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

"Perhaps the feeling most characteristic of our current moment is a mixture of boredom and compulsion. Even though we recognise that they are boring, we nevertheless feel compelled to do yet another Facebook quiz, to read yet another Buzzfeed list, to click on some celebrity gossip about someone we don’t even remotely care about. We endlessly move among the boring, but our nervous systems are so overstimulated that we never have the luxury of feeling bored. No one is bored, everything is boring." For this episode we read a couple of articles by Mark Fisher and the Institute for Precarious Consciousness discussing some of the mechanisms that capitalism exploits to dampen our abilities to organize against it. While the production of this episode really is us just feeding more content into a machine that devours our time and creativity, we are kinda hoping this is an example of the capitalists selling us some rope. Mark Fisher: No one is bored, Everything is boring https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/no-one-is-bored-everything-is-boring/ Institute for Precarious Consciousness: We Are All Very Anxious http://intercommunalworkshop.org/we-are-all-anxious/ Jodi Dean: Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle http://spheres-journal.org/communicative-capitalism-and-class-struggle/ Music: Savages- Shut Up Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we dive in to the second part of our two part collaboration with Adam from Red Library, who hosts s a great podcast that analyzes and discusses important works of Marxist theory and history. We are big fans, go check them out. This week we continued our discussion on Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism by Russell Jacoby, so if you haven't listened to the first part, do that now. In Dialectic of Defeat, Jacoby examines the losers of the Marxist tradition and argues that there is something to be learned from them, even in their defeat. He exhorts us to read the heretics, doubt the orthodoxies, and truly understand all of the rich and varied currents of Marxism, even if they ultimately failed to create a successful revolution. After all, all of our gods failed us in the end. Either that, or we failed them. Jacoby, Russell. Dialectic of defeat : contours of western Marxism. Cambridge, U.K. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print. Music: Current 93/Nurse With Wound- Ballad of the Pale Girl Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Red Library is a great podcast that analyzes and discusses important works of Marxist (and other leftist) literature, and we are big fans. So, we are happy to announce that this week we teamed up with them to read and talk about Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism by Russell Jacoby. The discussion ran long, so it has been broken into two parts. This is part one. In Dialectic of Defeat, Jacoby examines the losers of the Marxist tradition and argues that there is something to be learned from them, even in their defeat. He exhorts us to read the heretics, doubt the orthodoxies, and truly understand all of the rich and varied currents of Marxism, even if they ultimately failed to create a successful revolution. After all, all of our gods failed us in the end. Either that, or we failed them. Jacoby, Russell. Dialectic of defeat : contours of western Marxism. Cambridge, U.K. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print. Music: Modern Life Is War- Farmer's Holiday Association Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We decided that a good companion to our episode about Melancholia and Organized Pessimism would be a rare recording with all of us (except Kevin) in the same room, talking about a pretty cool movie that we saw over a decade ago. Sign up on our, very reasonably priced, Patreon to access our-- small but ever growing number of-- bonus episodes. 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

When we were kids: history ended, the Christian right launched an all out assault on the gains of the 1960s/70s, the liberals launched an all out assault on the gains of the New Deal/labor movement, and the left launched an all out assault on each others shopping choices. It sucked. The world was recreated in the dumbest and worst possible ways and we are going to let you listen to us talk about how it warped all of our brains. Coming of Age at the End of History https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/coming-of-age-at-the-end-of-history-2/ Neoliberalism Is A Political Project https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ From Revolution to Evolution: The Changing Nature of the Christian Right (1994) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.857.5145&rep=rep1&type=pdf What Pat Robertson Teaches Us https://jacobinmag.com/2018/03/pat-robertson-cbn-evangelical-christian-sanders The Reagan Counterrevolution Crushes The American Dream https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/9/8/1328063/-The-Reagan-Counter-Revolution-Crushes-the-American-Dream How The Christian Right Ended Up Transforming American Politics https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/brief-history-of-the-christian-right The Sexual Counterrevolution https://prospect.org/article/sexual-counterrevolution Music: Propagandhi- "Stick The Fucking Flag Up Your Goddam Ass, You Sonofabitch" Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We received a really thoughtful and challenging question/comment from one of our Patrons and we decided to give it the attention it deserves, in the form of a full episode. We discuss "pessimism of the intellect/optimism of the will," mourning, melancholy, the church-like euphoria of the mass meeting, and how much it is necessary to bum people out. If you have a question or concern you'd like us to address, send it to our email address [email protected] or message us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or Patreon. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We read a bunch of stuff about Walter Benjamin and Enzo Traverso and tried to have a conversation about it. We've only managed to reinforce the idea that "The organization of pessimism" is the only slogan that can save us from death. Traverso, Enzo. Left-wing melancholia : Marxism, history, and memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Print. Against Revolutionary Pessimism and Optimism: Revolutionary Realism by J. Moufawad Paul http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2016/10/against-revolutionary-pessimism-and.html An Invisible Underground River: On Left-Wing Melancholia- Michael Lowy https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3289-an-invisible-underground-river-on-left-wing-melancholia How to kill a zombie: strategizing the end of neoliberalism- Mark Fisher https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/how-to-kill-zombie-strategizing-end-of-neoliberalism/ Walter Benjamin’s Gothic Marxism and The Organization of Pessimism: Michael Lowy https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/walter-benjamin-and-surrealism Victor Serge: Indispensable Critic of Leftist Illusion- Mitchel Abidor https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/02/28/victor-serge-indispensable-critic-of-leftist-illusion/ Four Reasons the European Left Lost- Wolfgang Streeck https://jacobinmag.com/2019/05/european-parliament-elections-results-left?fbclid=IwAR0IIEH5W8SrlH9EfJ31XDLDFjvTZ2lp-ucok0GtxtpDsWzsrSMHQ_oB9DM The Organization of Pessimism: Profane Illumination & Anthropological Materialism in Walter Benjamin https://www.academia.edu/33848834/The_Organization_of_Pessimism_Profane_Illumination_and_Anthropological_Materialism_in_Walter_Benjamin Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We sat down with C. Derick Varn and solved all the problems that are currently ailing the left. We reconciled the divergent currents of Marxism and wove together the materialist and idealist dichotomy with resounding success, but then lost an hour and a half of audio and were forced to restart the recording; what resulted was a meandering, but entertaining, discussion about just about everything... and religion. Varn's Podcast "Symptomatic Redness" http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/tag/symptomatic-redness/ and his poetry. http://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/apocalyptics Music: Des Geyers Schwarzer Haufen- Bauernkreig (German Peasant Revolt Anthem) Further Reading: MacIntyre, Alasdair C. Marxism and Christianity. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984. Religion for radicals: An interview with Terry Eagleton https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-gospel-according-to-terry Roland Boer on Marxism and Religion http://isj.org.uk/the-full-story-on-marxism-and-religion/ Lenin: The Attitude of the Workers Party To Religion https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1909/may/13.htm Boer, R. (2014). Religion and Socialism. Political Theology, 15(2), 188–209. Fitzpatrick, F. (1967). A. V. Lunacharsky: Recent Soviet Interpretations and Republications. Soviet Studies. Vol. 18. No. 3. pp 267-289 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

After our Socialism From Below episode, Jason and Chris thought they could have used more time to talk about the 4th Comintern congress and the question of "Workers' Governments." What resulted is an impromptu discussion that we posted on our Patreon. Head on over and sign up for $2. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

From Babeuf and Blanqui to Bakunin; from Karl Marx and Kautsky to Kropotkin, an ideological battle rages over the true nature of socialism! But why though? This week we discuss whether or not there really are only "Two Souls of Socialism" and if idea of "socialism from below" is a useful analytical framework around which to organize our politics. Hal Draper’s “Two Souls of Socialism” https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1966/twosouls/ Marxism, Anarchism, & the Genealogy of “Socialism From Below” https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/02-marxism-anarchism-the-genealogy-of-socialism-from-below Building Socialism From Below- Ben Tarnoff https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/nicos-poulantzas-socialism-from-below-democratic-power Socialism From Below: A Delusion? -Mike McNair https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1071/socialism-from-below-a-delusion/ Music: Back in the USSR by Crisis Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This is part one of a series in which we will chart the history of fascism and attempt to dissect and discuss it in greater detail than we have previously been able to. Our goal is to analyze some of the scholarship done by mainstream and Marxist scholars alike, in order to better understand the phenomenon. In Part one we synthesize a list of the ideological characteristics of Classical Fascism from similar lists that are employed by fascism scholars, in an attempt to understand what gave historic fascism the unique appeal that it had and attempt to construct a working definition that we can use to define our terms for the rest of the series. If this ends up going well, the series will trace the history of fascism from its roots in the societal ferment of the 19th century to the modern day post-fascist movements. Payne, Stanley G. A history of fascism, 1914-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Print Sternhell, Zeev, Mario Sznajder, and Maia Ashéri. The birth of fascist ideology : from cultural rebellion to political revolution. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1994. Print. Paxton, Robert O. The anatomy of fascism. New York: Knopf, 2004. Print. Griffin, Roger. The nature of fascism. London New York: Routledge, 1993. Print. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

The Gang Gets Underwhelmed by Zizek v. Peterson. It wasn't the "Debate of the Century" we wanted, but it's the one that we deserved. Music: Kerber- Ratne Igre Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We are currently witnessing what appears to be the death of the micro sect form of political organization, a bastard form of the Leninist party that has all but dominated the minuscule and embattled American radical left for the past half century. The political landscape has changed in a way that has rendered these groups obsolete, removing the sectarian left's monopoly on socialist politics in the US, but what will replace it? Dare we be hopeful for a bright new era? LOL The New Communist Movement: An Obituary https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/mrl-obit.htm?fbclid=IwAR21HRylPBOW_OuyET7G4gIdgQnTHI_Qfy430OQnF9f_vScuQG3zIunN_q4 Hal Draper’s the Anatomy of the Microsect https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1973/xx/microsect.htm Hal Draper’s the Alternative to the Microsect https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1971/alt/alt.htm Warning about microsect organizing from David McNally in 2009 http://davidmcnally.org/p=1077&fbclid=IwAR1giyezHhZfnQPDzKvu2YvJoBp31_JWtnSXDBqypJ_saOd8GIlZeih7mt0 Socialism In One Organization https://failedharvest.com/blog/socialism1org John Riddell on the SWP Part One https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/the-u-s-swp-attempts-an-outward-turn-1977-83/ Part Two https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/causes-of-a-socialist-collapse-the-u-s-swp-1976-83/ The Sect System https://libcom.org/library/sect-system Song: Bill Bailey (The Ultimate Sectarian) Joe Glazer and Bill Friedman Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

As a concept, as a slogan, as an expression of intent The Right to The City contains within it an opportunity for this generation to conceive of new methods of class struggle, of new models of class organization, and of the return of class power. It’s but one of many opportunities we have right now to advance a constructive, utopian, and revolutionary vision of the future. It’s about demystifying social relations where they are presently abstracted. It’s about no longer viewing political activity as either pressuring politicians or becoming them. It’s about identifying what are presently hidden means of exerting our power as class to confront the class enemy, not just at work, but everywhere. Henri Lefebvre and the Right to the City http://faculty.washington.edu/mpurcell/jua_rtc.pdf Neoliberalism is a Political Project -- Harvey https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ The Right to the City -- Harvey https://newleftreview.org/II/53/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city PDF of Henri Lefebevre's Urban Revolution https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Henri-Lefebvre-The-Urban-Revolution.pdf Writings on Cities -- Lefebvre https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Henri-Lefebvre-Writings-on-Cities.pdf Critique of Urban Geography -- Debord https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/geography.html Why Psychogeography? https://www.sayitwithpavingstones.org/news/2018/8/14/derive-0-why-psychogeography Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week Chris and Jason sit down with Donald Parkinson-- the managing editor of Cosmonaut Magazine-- to discuss post apocalyptic eco-war communism, rekindling the Utopian imagination, the need for a post-tradition socialist movement, The DSA, The Marxist Center, Mike McNair, and some of the reasons Donald thinks we shouldn't be so pessimistic. Cosmonaut Magazine https://cosmonaut.blog/ Outro Music: Eduard Artemyev- Lullaby Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week the gang talks about the radical liberatory programs of the Bolsheviks, the failure of these programs, the conservative reaction of Stalin, and the renewed blossoming of these ideas in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. We ultimately conclude the Warsaw Pact countries leave much to be desired in the way of workers' democracy, but also provide us with an example of what is possible when a society's resources are devoted to liberation instead of hoarded by the bourgeoisie. The USSR’s Founding Mother https://cosmonaut.blog/2018/10/08/the-ussrs-founding-mother/ Liberation in the early days of the USSR https://isreview.org/issue/86/legacy-october Bad Romance https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/11/women-better-sex-under-socialism-review Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.amp.html Ghodsee, Kristen R. Why women have better sex under socialism : and other arguments for economic independence. New York: Nation Books, 2018. Music: Ina Martell- Ich war allein Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Kevin and Chris sat down with our old friend Steven; an attorney, Marxist and host of the defunct(ish?) Supreme Leap Forward Podcast to discuss Marxist criminology, prison, cops, and Soviet jurisprudence. We ultimately conclude that cops suck, prisons suck, the law is dumb, and the concept of the lumpenproletariat is something that we need to keep arguing about. Hal Draper essay mentioned in the episode: The concept of the Lumpenproletariat in Marx and Engels- Hal Draper Kevin and Steven's Marxist Law Podcast featuring Chris Supreme Leap Forward Episode 12 - Game Of Owns and Feudal Law 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 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week Jenny makes the case that there are "good" and bad types of identity politics and we discuss the redeemable and irredeemable aspects of them. Ultimately, we come to conclusions that are sure to get us canceled by workerists and idpol-libs alike. Which... doesn't matter because will have all been boiled alive by rising oceans of acidic seawater long before we ever figure any of this out. Combahee River Collective Statement : http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html Asad Haider: 'Eight Theses on Identity' http://salvage.zone/ Haider, Asad. Mistaken identity : race and class in the age of Trump. London Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

In part two of our discussion we finally get around to talking about horror movies, Jenny talks about Caliban and the Witch a lot more, and Chris brings that conversation back to fascism... again. The outro music is Lords of the New Church- Open Your Eyes Towards A Gothic Marxism I – On Monsters https://thelitcritguy.com/2018/02/05/towards-a-gothic-marxism-i-on-monsters/ Towards A Gothic Marxism Part Two: Monsters For Socialism https://thelitcritguy.com/2018/02/05/towards-a-gothic-marxism-part-two-monsters-for-socialism/ A Thousand Lost Worlds: Notes on Gothic Marxism by Adam Turl http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/evicted-art-blog/a-thousand-lost-worlds-notes-on-gothic-marxism Socialists Must Reclaim Halloween https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/halloween-socialism-china-mieville Michael Lowy on Benjamin’s Gothic Marxism https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/walter-benjamin-and-surrealism The Horror of the Real: Zizek as Modern Gothic http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/356/356 Adam Tooze on Surrealism and Gothic Marxism https://blindfieldjournal.com/2016/12/01/of-surrealism-marxism/ McNally, David. Monsters of the Market : Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2012. Cohen, Margaret. Profane Illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993 Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. New York London: Autonomedia Pluto, distributor, 2004. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

In this episode we talk about Marxist romanticism and the gothic strain in Marxism, or "gothic Marxism." We attempt to salvage the detritus of bourgeois society and the broken dreams of generations of the defeated to piece together a vision of world worth fighting for. Marx often used Gothic imagery in his writings and held a strong romantic streak that we think has been ignored by "vulgar" Marxists who cling to the mechanistic Protestantism and scientism of the enlightenment. This is only part one of a two part episode and we promise you we talk about horror movies eventually, just keep your shorts on. The intro is a paraphrasing of Adam Turl from a piece he wrote for Red Wedge Magazine, linked below: The outro music is Bauhaus- The Passion of Lovers Towards A Gothic Marxism I – On Monsters https://thelitcritguy.com/2018/02/05/towards-a-gothic-marxism-i-on-monsters/ Towards A Gothic Marxism Part Two: Monsters For Socialism https://thelitcritguy.com/2018/02/05/towards-a-gothic-marxism-part-two-monsters-for-socialism/ A Thousand Lost Worlds: Notes on Gothic Marxism by Adam Turl http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/evicted-art-blog/a-thousand-lost-worlds-notes-on-gothic-marxism Socialists Must Reclaim Halloween https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/halloween-socialism-china-mieville Michael Lowy on Benjamin’s Gothic Marxism https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/walter-benjamin-and-surrealism The Horror of the Real: Zizek as Modern Gothic http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/356/356 Adam Tooze on Surrealism and Gothic Marxism https://blindfieldjournal.com/2016/12/01/of-surrealism-marxism/ McNally, David. Monsters of the Market : Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2012. Cohen, Margaret. Profane Illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993 Siegel, Paul N. The Meek and the Militant : Religion and Power Across the World. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2005. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we dive deep into eco-terrorism / green anarchy / primitivism, and discuss why we think the Unambomber had some good points while also disagreeing with him, a lot. Anti-Civ folks would tell you that the problems that plague humanity begin with the industrial revolution and that we need to go back to hunter/gatherer societies. We at The Regrettable Century, however, enjoy the fact that we survived past childbirth and can wear corrective lenses to read books safely inside of our warm homes this winter. We bet you can figure out what we think the real problem is. Also, we talk about eco-fascism. A short list of resources we mined for this episode: Children of Ted http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html The Unabomber's Manifesto as originally published by WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm?noredirect=on Interview with John Zerzan on NPR https://www.spreaker.com/user/oregonpublicbroadcasting/anarchy-and-civilization “No Way Out?” By John Zerzan https://www.johnzerzan.net/articles/no-way-out.html “The Problem of Civilization” from Deep Green Resistance, Derrick Jensen’s group, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/05/05/deep-green-resistance-strategy-save-planet 20 min ELF propaganda video: https://youtu.be/MO2pA5We34A Watch full length documentary “If a Tree Falls: a Story of the Earth Liberation Front” https://youtu.be/UmZkNNJqr1I “Whatever Happened to Ecoterrorism?” https://psmag.com/environment/whatever-happened-to-eco-terrorism Review/summary of “Ecological Rift,” by John Bellamy Foster http://links.org.au/node/2293 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We pick up where we left off last week; discussing Russian Nazbols, American Third Positionism, and the re-emphasizing the need to speak with clarity about this topic of dire importance. Listen to Part II of a II part series, in which we think out loud about the history and politics of fascist anti-capitalism. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury A short list of some of the material referenced for the show: Payne, Stanley G. A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Lee, Martin A. The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1997. Coogan, Kevin. Dreamer of the Day : Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn, N.Y: Autonomedia, 1999. A scholarly article about The National Question and the Communists in Weimar Germany. https://libcom.org/files/NATIONAL%20BOLSHEVISM%20IN%20WEIMAR%20GERMANY.pdf The (Now Defunct) Traditionalist Workers Party: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/traditionalist-worker-party An undercover expose of the Traditionalist Workers Party: https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/leaked-a-year-inside-the-failed-neo-nazi-traditionalist-worker-party/ Article about a alt-righters adopting “anti-capitalism” https://www.thenation.com/article/the-racist-right-looks-left/ Music: Holocaust by Crisis off of No Town Hall Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Yes there is an anti-capitalist right and leftists need to stop being so confused when rightists are opposed to, or critical of, capitalism. Listen to Part I of a II part series, in which we think out loud about the history and politics of the Strasserites, Nazbols, European New Right, and Third Positionists. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury A short list of some of the material referenced for the show: Payne, Stanley G. A History of Fascism, 1914-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Lee, Martin A. The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1997. Coogan, Kevin. Dreamer of the Day : Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn, N.Y: Autonomedia, 1999. The National Question and the Communists in Weimar Germany. https://libcom.org/files/NATIONAL%20BOLSHEVISM%20IN%20WEIMAR%20GERMANY.pdf The (Now Defunct) Traditionalist Workers Party: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/traditionalist-worker-party An undercover expose of the Traditionalist Workers Party: https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/leaked-a-year-inside-the-failed-neo-nazi-traditionalist-worker-party/ Article about a alt-righters adopting “anti-capitalism” https://www.thenation.com/article/the-racist-right-looks-left/ Music: Auf, auf zum Kampf by Commandantes off of Lieder Für Die Arbeiterklasse Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Behold, our original intro episode! Jason and Chris talk about their motivations for creating the podcast and dive into Mark Fisher's book "Capitalist Realism." Fisher argues that after 1989 capitalism was able to present itself as the only option and warped our reality to fit that claim. We talk about how he was right. 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

In the years since Guy Debord wrote "The Society of the Spectacle" we have witnessed the utter triumph of said spectacle and have been thoroughly crushed under the jackboot of its mediocrity. We think that some of the ideas of the Situationists are even more relevant now than they were in 68 and are worth having a conservation about, so we did. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury A Short List of Some of the Readings For this Episode: Society of the Spectacle (full text) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm Revenge of the Spectacle http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/revenge-of-the-spectacle-this-time-its-personal Bringing Fuel to The Flames: Anselme Jappe's Guy Debord http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/bringing-fuel Notes on the Spectacle of Opposition https://www.sayitwithpavingstones.org/news/2018/6/29/some-notes-on-the-spectacle-of-opposition Why Psychogeography? https://www.sayitwithpavingstones.org/news/2018/8/14/derive-0-why-psychogeography Background on 1968 https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/ Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

In our first ever FEATURE episode, we talk about the Marxist art, its mission, the idea of the Popular Avant Garde, and why transgression is important. 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

This week we discuss our orientation as Revolutionary Pessimists. We believe that humanity is worth saving, but were not so sure that is going to work out. A clear headed, sober, pessimistic orientation is necessary to continue to organize as socialists. We must be ready to salvage the burnt out husk of our planet and build an egalitarian future in the irradiated post apocalyptic deserts. A strategy for ruination is necessary. https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury Salvage Quarterly http://salvage.zone/in-print/salvage-perspectives-1-amid-this-stony-rubbish/ For a Marxism Without Guarantees http://www.agpolpsy.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Hall-For-a-Marxism-Without-Guarantees.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2zkfhtBHg_j1-YBQ3eCpPUXCnKeg0FxeEq5Y3KWN4Fqdf5lVCGwhEBsqs Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we discuss ourselves a little bit before diving into the topic of base building. What is base building? Is it a new strategy? Is it just aping Maoist and Narodnik tactics in a decidedly un-Bolshevik fashion? It isn't, but if it was why would that be bad? In this episode, we talk about why building is becoming popular among the membership of the DSA and whether it is a viable strategy for working class power 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

Part Two of our series examining fascism. The post fascist matrix has vomited forth a dizzying array of political formations; we recorded ourselves thinking out loud about them. 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

Part one of our series examining all of the fascisms (This is a re-upload with some sound issues resolved) 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

We discuss Mark Fisher's pertinent and controversial essay "Exiting the Vampire's Castle. What did Fisher get wrong, what did he get right? Will the left shake its toxic call out culture in time to save humanity from impending catastrophe? Exiting the Vampire Castle https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/ Our 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