The Regrettable Century

This week we would like to introduce to you to The Measures Taken. The Measures Taken is a podcast about the intellectual history of  the key debates that occurred in Marxism and it also happens to be one of Jason's side projects. All of the contributors to the podcast come from different corners of the American left and believe that they have all been miseducated. This podcast is an attempt at self education and an encouragement for others to do the same. https://www.themeasurestaken.org/ Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Christopher Lasch is a figure that draws strong reactions from people all over the political spectrum. Lasch's later work spoke of a growing chasm between liberal managerial elites and the traditional working class (endearing him to some conservatives), but his older work falls solidly within the tradition of homegrown American socialist politics. Our friend and comrade, C. Derick Varn, is currently co-authoring a book on Christopher Lasch, and he stopped by to tell us why Lasch is worth reading. Books by Christopher Lasch Music- Incendiary- Zeitgeist Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Christopher Lasch is a figure that draws strong reactions from people all over the political spectrum. Lasch's later work spoke of a growing chasm between liberal managerial elites and the traditional working class (endearing him to some conservatives), but his older work falls solidly within the tradition of homegrown American socialist politics. Our friend and comrade, C. Derick Varn, is currently co-authoring a book on Christopher Lasch, and he stopped by to tell us why Lasch is worth reading. Books by Christopher Lasch Music- Wailin Storms- Rope 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, and our comrade Mir from Sweden, 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 dive into Magee's explanation of Hegel's Mythology of Reason and the Phenomenology of the Spirit as a Hermetic initiation rite.  Magee, Glenn A. Hegel and the hermetic tradition. Ithaca, N.Y. Bristol: Cornell University Press University Presses Marketing distributor, 2008. The Keeper of the Grail · John Williams Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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