The Regrettable Century

The gang tackles Chapter 5 of Bauer's analysis of the concept of the nation. Read Along With Us:  https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we delve into what is sort of a pre-history of the American Socialist movement. Though the populist movement undeniably kept its Jeffersonian character, it was the first (arguably only) significant challenge to the dominance of the two major capitalist parties in the US. Much of the energy and the spirit of American populism flowed into and colored the burgeoning American workers' movement. From Populism to Socialism and Back https://jacobin.com/2019/08/populism-socialism-daniel-de-leon-eugene-debs American Populism, 1876-1896 https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/gildedage/populism Populist Party Platform July 4, 1892 https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/populist-party-platform-july-4-1892.php  Cantrell, Gregg, and D. Scott Barton. “Texas Populists and the Failure of Biracial Politics.” The Journal of Southern History 55, no. 4 (1989): 659–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/2209044. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

The boys and Varn Vlog are back again, talking about "Decadence Theory" and how it differs from "crisis theory" and "breakdown theory." We discuss Samir Amin's Third-Worldist (and not very Marxist) take on decadence theory. Revolution or Decadence- Samir Amin https://monthlyreview.org/2018/05/01/revolution-or-decadence/ Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

The gang tackles Chapter 4 of Bauer's analysis of the concept of the nation... Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we entered the archives and poured through the codices and scrolls containing the wisdom of past episodes to give you this curated trash can of Ideology. We highlighted some themes from the past six years of podcasting that we thought were worth underscoring and how our ideas may have changed... Our Underlying Philosophy of Dialectical Pessimism S1/Ep5: Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will S1/Ep26: The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out   S4/Ep7: Death of The Left S5/Ep21: Pessimism is an Optimism: Revisiting Pessimism Making Sense of Our Past S1/Ep27: Children of the Counterrevolution  S3/Ep12: The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment S3/Ep22: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Republic  S4/Ep3: The Tragedy of American Socialism   Rethinking What It Means To “Be” Revolutionary S1/Ep18: The Right to the City S2/Ep8: We Would Prefer Not To S5/Ep15: The Legacy of William Morris S6/Ep15: The Antifascism of Fools A Willingness to Abandon Our Older Trajectory S4/Ep20: Labor Theory of Apocalypse S6/Ep5: One Plus One Is Three S6/Ep16: The Boys Figure Out Which Marxist Tendency is Correct  S6/Ep19: To Front or Not to Front The Major Obstacles/Challenges We Face S3/Ep5: Happiness Industry Socialism S3/Ep17: Everything Is Recuperated  S5/Ep9: You're Not Making Liberals Socialist... S5/Ep19: The Dialectic of Degrowth Our Deep Skepticism/Hostility Toward Techno-Solutions S1/Ep31: The Future Has Been Canceled  S2/Ep2: Partially Automated Regular Communism S2/Ep5: Socialism Without Sacrifice...  S4/Ep4: No Ethical Technical Innovation Under Capitalism Looking Ahead S4/Ep11: Marxism in Dialogue With Christianity S5/Ep12: The Dialectic of Apotheosis   S5/Ep16: Bathing in the Warm Stream  S6/Ep22: Real Grouchy Old Man Hours Regrettable Reading List: The Red Jacobins: Thermidor & The Russian Revolution in 1921 Party As Articulator  The Tragedy of the Worker Revolution: An Intellectual History Left Wing Melancholia Excremental Happiness: From Neurotic Hedonism to Dialectical Pessimism Liquid Modernity The True and Only Heaven: Progress & Its Critics The Twittering Machine Hegel & The Hermetic Tradition Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This is an old episode of our friend Andrew's podcast that was recorded a few years ago. The podcast is now defunct, but we thought y'all deserved to hear it. In this episode Jason and Andrew watched and discussed Guy Debord's 1974 film version of The Society of the Spectacle. Enjoy and Happy New Year. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We are joined again by our official France correspondent, Matthew. Matthew is a veteran of American Trot sectarian organizing and the labor movement who lives in France and is more intimately involved in the happenings than we are.  We discuss the failure of the popular front, the ham-fisted triumph of Macron, and the death throes of the French political system.  Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Soldiering on and finishing Chapter 3 of Bauer's excellent Marxist analysis of the nation. Read along with us: https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week, we read and discussed Eley and Blackbourn's indispensable discussion of the Sonderweg, or special path, of German history. It is often said that Germany's path to the Holocaust begins with the failure of the bourgeois revolution to take hold. This book posits a top-down Bonapartist "revolution" led by Otto von Bismarck which thoroughly bourgeoisified German society from the top to the bottom. Blackbourn, David, and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Oxford, 1984; Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011) Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Kicking off Year VII, Chris and Ben are joined by Daniel Saunders to discuss Herbert McCabe's Class Struggle and Christian Love. The intention was also to cover pieces by Dennis Turner and Terry Eagleton but time got away from them, so Daniel will have to return again... Herbert McCabe: The Class Struggle and Christian Love https://www.christiansocialism.com/2020/05/14/herbert-mccabe-class-struggle-capitalism-marxism-christianity/ More of Daniel: Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism & Christianity https://www.buzzsprout.com/220523/episodes/14978167-ideology-fetishism-apophaticism-marxist-criticism-and-christianity-with-daniel-saunders Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism and Christianity: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nbfr.12642 And Here: https://daniel-saunders.com/ Mentioned Materials: The Slant Manifesto https://archive.org/details/SlantManifestoCatholicsAndTheLeft The New Blackfriars Journal https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/study/new-blackfriars-journal/ Science Impregnated With History: Marxism and Reason (With Chris Manno)https://www.buzzsprout.com/220523/episodes/4672121-science-impregnated-with-history-marxism-and-reason-with-chris-manno.mp3?download=trueSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop