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 Antifascism of Fools: Liberalism's Antifascism Without Fascism
First off, please forgive the first few minutes of Chris' audio, we adjusted the levels during the podcast and fixed it. You won't have to bear with it all the way through.
We sat down to talk about SAVING DEMOCRACY FROM TRUMPIST FASCISM, or rather, how the left has fallen into the trap of letting the Democratic Party off the hook for its crimes against humanity and its constant kowtowing to the GOP.
Stanley Payne on anti-fascism without fascism
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/01/antifascism-without-fascism
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Patreon Preview -- Doom 2024 (From Dawn to Decadence, Ep 1.5)
This is an impromptu episode recorded by Jason and Varn where they discuss their dissatisfaction with the general situation of world politics.
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Whither France: The New Popular Front and the French Elections
This week we are joined by our official France correspondent, Matthew. We discuss the unique threat of the post-fascist menace and what the results and prospects are for the shaky leftist coalition.
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Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part VI)
Wake up babe, new Dugin Time just dropped. The boys are back and discussing Dugin's understanding of processes and, now that they're about halfway done with the book, begin to ask the question "What is the Fourth Political Theory?"
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Patreon Preview -- From Dawn to Decadence (Part I): With Varn Vlog
This week we sat down with C. Derick Varn to talk about "decadence theory," "crisis theory," and "breakdown theory." This is a special episode, mostly because it wasn't supposed to come out until August, but Varn accidentally released it early so y'all get a bonus episode.
We discussed the following materials:
Morley, Neville. "Decadence as a Theory of History." New Literary History, Vol. 35, No. 4, Forms and/of Decadence (Autumn, 2004), pp.573-585
Decadence: The Theory of Decline or the Decline of Theory?
https://libcom.org/library/decadence-aufheben-2
Revolution or Decadence?
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Civic Socialism: The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies
This week we sat down with members of the New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies to discuss their efforts to revitalize the socialist project and to build a basis for future socialist struggles.
NZFSS Website
https://www.socialistsocieties.org.nz/
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Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode II)
Back at it again with the national question and soldiering on through chapter 1...
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https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer
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It Sucks Out There: Hyper-Individualization, Tiktok, and the Terminal Decline of American Society
We invited podcast alumnus, Jess, back to talk about how terrible everything is. We touch on Tiktok houses, literature, and the death of the future.
The End of The Future
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-politics-future-history-capitalism-progress
Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/anna-kornbluh-immediacy-individualism-capitalism/
Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle: Are We Defined by How We Appear
https://www.thecollector.com/guy-debord-society-of-the-spectacle/
The Anxiety of Influencers
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Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part V)
Jason, Varn, and Sean KB continue the forced march through the Aleksander Dugin's Fourth Political Theory.
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Patreon Preview -- Turns Out I Will Also Rule: An Addendum to our Fascism and Anarcho-Individualism Discussion
This week we are tying up some loose ends we left unexplored in our last regular episode on Fascism and Anarcho-Individualism. Enjoy this bonus content!
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