
The Regrettable Century
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.
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
-- Antonio Gramsci
Podcasting since 2018 • 321 episodes
The Regrettable Century
Latest Episodes
On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part III)
This week, the Regrettable Christian Caucus begins Chapter II of Laudato Si, by the late Pope Francis. You can follow along by grabbing the PDF from Verso or from the Vatican website. This Papal Encyclical calls for urgent action to...
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Season 7
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Episode 27
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1:47:00

PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 10/11/2025
Samantha Powers' UN/Israel Collusion, Anduril/Palantir Intel Risks to US Military, Right Wing Imperialist Proxy Wins Nobel Prize, Cease Fire in Gaza?, Angela Merkel Shifts Blame Onto Poland and Baltics, Poland's Imperial Ambitions, Zelensky's W...
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Season 7
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15:35

Patreon Preview -- Regrettable Book Club: Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour (Part I)
It's time for a new patron reading group, and we've chosen 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang gets started with the introduction, which means there is still time to become part of the group. If so, go to the Discord to join in....
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Season 7
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16:47

A Cascading Series of New Lefts (Part II of II)
This week the boys finish a close reading of an interview with Terence Renaud wherein he discusses his new book New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition. We weigh in on the positive and negative legacies of the multiple...
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Season 7
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Episode 26
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52:16

Patreon Preview -- Much Ado About Not Very Much: "Red-Brownism" and the Anti-War "Movement"
This week, we read and discussed an article about a phenomenon that apparently some people are, or were, concerned about: the problem of fascist infiltration of the anti-war movement. We discuss the problems inherent in gatekeeping social movem...
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Season 7
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16:26
