The Regrettable Century
Chris, Jason, Kevin, 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.
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Recent Episodes
S8E11 The Gang Goes Full Tankie: The Results and Prospects of Digital Stalinism
This week, the boys got together and discussed the perpetual battle between the digital Stalinists and the digital Third Campists. To what extent have those demonized as tankies been right or wrong?…
S8 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 02/21/2026
Keep up with Burkina Faso, Trump is Killing Cuba, Iran is a Formidable Opponent, Iranian Dead Protester Psyop, Pedophile Country Provides Security for Epstein, Spook Dictators on the Rise in Ukraine,…
S8 Patreon Preview: Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour (Part III)
Finally, the long awaited return of 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang dives into chapters three and four. Catch up with us by joining the Discord. From…
S8E10 The Red Jacobins and the Thermidor of 1921: Revisited (UNLOCKED)
This week, we returned to a discussion about a not very well-known article from an obscure Trotskyist journal written over a decade ago... It generated a little bit of a buzz, but was mostly…
S1 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 02/07/2026
The Greenland Nothingburger, Regime Change in Iran Wouldn't be Quick or Easy, Epstein Was Mossad, Epstein in Ukraine, Ukraine's Internal and Military Collapse... Join the Regrettable Century…
S8 Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part XI)
The boys are back and are nearing the end of the book. Chapters 11 and 12 are where Dugin's animating principle of "Dasein" comes into conflict with his understanding of global geopolitics and the…
S8E9 Pessimism is an Optimism: A Return to Dialectical Pessimism (REDUX)
This is a repost of an episode from 2003, but with an added leadoff that we recorded recently. This episode discusses a topic that bears constant revisiting: our pessimism (because of intellect)…
S8E7 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…
S8 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…
S8 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…
S8E6 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…
S8E5 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,…
S8 PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 01/06/2026
The Venezuelan Regime Change that Wasn't, Oil Companies don't Want Venezuelan Oil, Machado Sidelined by Trump, Israeli False Flags, Israel Persecutes Christians, AIPAC Goes Underground, The CIA's…
S8E4 On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part IV)
This week, the Regrettable Christian Caucus finishes 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…
S8 PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 12/20/2025
Well, here is a release that is back on our old schedule, but we won't be on this schedule for long. In fact, this is our last geopolitics episode of the year. We will resume in the New Year on a…
S8 Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Returns: Dugin’s 4th Political Theory (Part IX)
The boys are back, well... some of the boys. Picking up after a year long hiatus, Jason and Varn are ready to get down to finishing off Dugin. Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory.…
S8E3 The Gang Resolves the Contradictions (Unlocked)
This is a Patreon episode we liked so much that we unlocked it for everyone to hear. We hope you enjoy it. This week, Jason and Ben sat down to acknowledge and resolve all the contradictions that…
S8 Patreon Preview: La démocratie dans l’Amérique de Trump (Matthew from Unbreakable Union) *re-upload*
*re-uploaded* This week we sat down with Matthew from the Unbreakable Union podcast and talked about the changing state of the world, what it's been like to be on the left throughout the years, the…
S8E2 Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History: With Stephan Hammel (Part II of II)
This week, Jason and Ben continued their conversation with Stephan Hammel of The Measures Taken Podcast about his new book Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History. From the publisher: "This…
S8 PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 11/27/2025
Trump Wants to Talk to Maduro, Israel is Still Murdering Children, Zelensky Has Lost Touch With Reality, Ukraine Is Losing and Being Forced Into an Unfavorable Peace Deal... Send us a message (sorry…
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The Regrettable Century has published 348 episodes since October 2018, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.
The Regrettable Century is currently active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 52m.
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