The Regrettable Century

By: Chris Kevin Jason & Ben
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  • 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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  • In Defense of Proletarian Idealism

    In Defense of Proletarian Idealism
    Feb 11 2025

    This week we read and discussed an article by Richard Seymour that explores Marxism's relationship with materialism and idealism. Seymour argues that the Hegelian inheritance within Marxism forces it in the direction of an idealism which is essential for a successful revolutionary politics.


    https://www.patreon.com/posts/81735357?pr=true&fbclid=IwAR2ftGQudDJQhykIW4rv_3F34xqP8RGHZdyZyb4JsGQgxzQ7qxvRNI9BP7k

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Patreon Preview -- Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode IX)

    Patreon Preview -- Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode IX)
    Feb 6 2025

    The gang tackles Chapter 5 of Bauer's analysis of the concept of the nation.


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    https://libcom.org/article/question-nationalities-and-social-democracy-otto-bauer

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    21 mins
  • Partisans of a Dying Dream: The Populist Moment and American Socialism

    Partisans of a Dying Dream: The Populist Moment and American Socialism
    Jan 27 2025

    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.

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    1 hr and 10 mins

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