

The Regrettable Century
Chris, Jason, Kevin, Ben
The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism.
A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
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A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
Check us out on Patreon for regular Patron Book Clubs, Regrettable Geopolitics updates, Real Nerd Hours, and more...
Visit The Regrettable Century Merch Shop
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Jan 10, 2021 • 1h 7min
Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #2 (With C. Derick Varn)
Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn.
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.
Marxism and Ethics
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.html
Philippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodness”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/#NatuGood
Marx’s Ethic of Freedom
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/brenkert.htm
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Jan 7, 2021 • 13min
PATREON TEASER: Without a party we have something... but it sucks
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We were joined by some of our choicest patrons to discuss the question of the party form. Join us as we solve the party problem.
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Jan 4, 2021 • 1h 16min
Virtue is Dead, Long Live Virtue: Marxism and Ethics #1 (With C. Derick Varn)
Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn.
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.
Marxism and Ethics
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.html
Philippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodness”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/#NatuGood
Marx’s Ethic of Freedom
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/brenkert.htm
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Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 15min
Happiness 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
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Dec 24, 2020 • 5min
PATREON TEASER: The Immortal Science of Driving a Tank
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We were joined by some of our choicest patrons to discuss the fine distinctions between genres of Tankie.
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Dec 21, 2020 • 33min
Subject, 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
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Dec 14, 2020 • 1h 12min
Subject, 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
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Dec 7, 2020 • 2h 20min
Mammon 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
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Nov 27, 2020 • 5min
PATREON TEASER: Disaster Nationalism
We read Richard Seymour's Article from Salvage Quarterly about Disaster Nationalism and talked about it. Tune in to hear about the Chad Nationalism’ of ‘sexy’, ‘dangerous’, gym-hitting boys, zaddy fascism, and listen while we parse rightisms and talk about how Trump and the GOP (still) aren't fascists.
https://salvage.zone/articles/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/
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Nov 24, 2020 • 1h 17min
Hegel’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
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