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
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Podcasting since 2018 • 341 episodes
The Regrettable Century
Latest Episodes
Half a Revolution: The Pink Tide and 21st Century Socialism
This week, we get together to talk through a sort of brief overview of the era of the Pink Tide in Latin America and try to draw out some of the lessons and implications for the future of Socialism for the 21st Century...What Happene...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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1:09:38
Patron Preview: Patron Q&A IV
Here it is comrades, the long-awaited fourth patron Q&A. We answer questions about America's humiliation, Chinese communism, AI in schools, and our favorite revolutionary books and/or pamphlets.This is only half the questions we rec...
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Season 8
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16:38
PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 01/20/2026
The Iran Regime Change that Wasn't, Canada and China are Pals Now, Greenland Idiocy, Ukraine's Mass Desertion Crisis, Ukraine's Corruption Crisis, Ukraine's Fiscal Crisis, Ukraine's Fortification Crisis, Ukraine's Losing the War Crisis...
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Season 8
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16:13
From Dawn to Decadence, REDUX: The Boys are Back in Town (Part V) With Varn Vlog
Once again, the boys are back... again. We return to our long-neglected "Decadence Theory" project with Varn Vlog. This week, the boys try to get back in the swing of things with a reorientation episode. Varn Vlog<...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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1:32:31
The Left Needs a Utopian Vision (Part II of II)
This week, we finally finish off the a close reading of The Concept of Left by Leszek Kolakowski. Kolakowski was a dissident Polish Marxist who later turned against the project altogether. However, before he did, he wrote much that ...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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1:39:14