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The Regrettable Century
Hosted by Chris, Jason, Kevin, Ben · EN
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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Revolutionary Biology In Defense of Life: With Arnold Schroder of Fight Like an Animal
2d ago01:23:56Tap to summarizeThis week Arnold from Fight Like an Animal joins us to talk about his new book Fight Like an Animal: Revolutionary Biology in Defense of Life. From the Publisher's Site: The stories we tell matter, especially when we aren't aware we're telling them, or how they shape our behavior. In Fight Like an Animal, Arnold Schroder argues that all modern conceptions of politics, from anarchism to fascism, exhibit a shared confusion. All are based on some form of the nature-nurture binary: the idea that human behavior is either biologically or socially-determined, and that the more it is biological, the less it is social. This idea is not simply wrong, but logically incoherent. We can only adapt to so many different kinds of society through a highly-structured biology, which we should seek to understand if we wish to find new ways of living. Based on decades of immersion in the environmental movement, Fight Like an Animal describes how largely-forgotten debates about human nature still have concrete impacts on political projects today. When we escape the confusion they cause, we can direct our attention to something that should be obvious: individual differences in political personality. Political personality is the core orientation to the world from which specific political behaviors and perceptions emerge. We must ask how different kinds of people shape societies in different ways, and how people are shaped, in turn, by the societies they create. Neither of these questions make sense in isolation: they are endlessly entangled. Using this integrative framework, Schroder offers simple, readily-accessible tools for conceiving of social change processes and crafting strategic initiatives, whether for a book club or a global revolution. Applying insights gained everywhere from oil refinery blockades to baboon stress hormone profiles, Fight Like an Animal is an earnest argument that, no matter how mired in darkness and confusion, the world can make sense. https://www.againsttheinternet.com/ https://severedbranchespress.com/
Transcribe →Patreon Preview -- Regrettable Geopolitics 05/26/2026
1w ago00:19:26Tap to summarizeTrump Backs Down From Renewed War With Iran, NATO Rejects Mandatory Ukraine Tax, Israel Wants Holocaust Denier to Rule Iran, Latvian Government Collapses, US Does Israel's Fighting, Ukraine's Losses Higher Than Russia In 2026 So Far, Territorial Gain Discrepancies... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
Transcribe →PATREON PREVIEW -- Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour (conclusion)
1w ago00:22:22Tap to summarizeFinally, the long-awaited end of 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang dives into the final chapters of this amazing book. https://www.versobooks.com/products/3147-disaster-nationalism?srsltid=AfmBOopteajdHFhvPPMqXAdXY-mHaQbhDVu5iClxBvNpDm57Jdetk0kH Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
Transcribe →Conspiracy or Just Capitalism? Paranoia and Parapolitics in the Post-Epstein World
2w ago01:10:11Tap to summarizeAs socialists, what should we think about conspiracy theories? Should the myriad secret diabolical acts perpetrated by the elites lead us to be more open minded toward the ravings of the open-minded so-called "lunatic fringe," Or does it even matter whether the theories are true? Comments on the Society of the Spectacle https://files.libcom.org/files/Comments%20on%20the%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle.pdf Conspiracy Theory Is Dead https://jacobin.com/2023/05/conspiracy-theory-is-dead Conspiracies: Left vs Right https://theramparts.substack.com/p/conspiracies-the-left-vs-right Understanding and Addressing the Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the 21st Century https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.70050?af=R What do socialists say about conspiracy theories? https://socialistalternative.info/2024/08/16/what-do-socialists-say-about-conspiracy-theories/ Conspiracy-Theory Socialism https://fee.org/articles/conspiracy-theory-socialism/ How the Left Lost Its Mind https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/ Why Is Conspiratorial Thinking More Popular on the Right? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-justice-pacifists/202110/why-is-conspiratorial-thinking-more-popular-the-right What Conspiracy Theories on the Left and Right Have in Common https://www.vice.com/en/article/what-conspiracy-theories-on-the-left-and-right-have-in-common/ How the Left Fools Themselves Into Thinking the Right Are Conspiracy Theorists https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2020/07/23/how_the_left_fools_themselves_into_thinking_the_right_are_conspiracy_theorists.html
Transcribe →Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/16/2026
3w ago00:20:53Tap to summarizeF-35s With no Radar, US Pulling Troops From Europe, Chinese Solar Exports Soar, Iran Is a Massive Strategic Defeat For the US, Israel's Government Is Crumbling, Vehicle and Territory Losses In Ukraine... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
Transcribe →PATREON PREVIEW -- Fascism: Does the Definition Matter? (Part II of II)
3w ago00:20:39Tap to summarizeThis week's bonus episode is the second and last part of our close read close read of a 2021 article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
Transcribe →Weeks When Decades Happen: The Death of the World Order (II of II)
May 401:08:56Tap to summarizeThis week, the boys got together to finish the discussion about what appears to be a massive shift in the way the global system is ordered. Will it be better? Likely not. Will it present opportunities for rupture? Hopefully. Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US? https://jacobin.com/2026/03/iran-us-antiwar-movement-trump Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster https://archive.ph/gEEBj The decline of the West and the rise of ‘the Rest’ will lead to a new world order https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2025-09/decline-west-and-rise-rest-will-lead-new-world-order Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
Transcribe →Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part XII)
Apr 3000:10:32Tap to summarizeJason and Varn are back and discussing Dugin again. As the discussion of the book inches closer to conclusion, this discussion moves into Dugin's ideas about Fascism, Liberalism, and Communism and the need to transcend these ideologies in the 21st century before moving into the Heideggerian foundations of Dugin's thought. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop Check Out Varn Vlog
Transcribe →Weeks When Decades Happen: The Death of the World Order
Apr 2201:45:49Tap to summarizeThis week, the boys got together to talk about what appears to be a massive shift in the way the global system is ordered. Will it be better? Likely not. Will it present opportunities for rupture? Hopefully. Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US? https://jacobin.com/2026/03/iran-us-antiwar-movement-trump Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster https://archive.ph/gEEBj The decline of the West and the rise of ‘the Rest’ will lead to a new world order https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2025-09/decline-west-and-rise-rest-will-lead-new-world-order This Is the Way a World Order Ends https://archive.ph/9bEI6 Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
Transcribe →PATREON PREVIEW -- Fascism: Does the Definition Matter? (Part I of II)
Apr 1700:18:35Tap to summarizeThis week's bonus episode is a close read of an article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion. Stay tuned for part two. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
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