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The Regrettable Century

Chris, Jason, Kevin, Ben

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.


Check us out on Patreon for regular Patron Book Clubs, Regrettable Geopolitics updates, Real Nerd Hours, and more...

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  • English

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  • August 10 · 20 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Where is the Anti-War Movement?

    This week, two old veterans of about two and a half decades in the fight against half a dozen imperialist wars read and discussed an article about why there is not anti-war movement. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

  • August 8 · 19 min

    Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 08/07/2026

    Iran War Strategic Summary, Iran and Oman Hormuz Agreement, The US is Out of Missiles, China Missile Practice on US Ship Models, Ukraine Bombs Restaurant, Ukraine 40 Day Drone War Failure, Ukraine Counteroffensive Failure, Ukraine Out of Air Defense Missiles... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

  • S8 · E21
    July 29 · 1 hr 47 min

    Again, Let America be America Again... For Once (AGAIN)

    This week we continue our series on republicanism by returning to an episode we did on the complicated legacy of the American Revolution. This older episode now has a 40 minute preface where we discuss the episode and how much things have changed since the original, enjoy! Like the bourgeois project as a whole, the historical consequences of the American Revolution have had mixed results. Simultaneously spurring on the cause of human freedom and stifling it, the American Revolution was pregnant with a creative and destructive spirit. As the American Empire appears to be in decline, we ask whether or not things could have gone, or could still go, in another direction. Check out Matthew and Jason's Podcast About the History of the Soviet Union: https://regrettablecentury.podbean.com/e/introducing-the-unbreakable-union-podcast-the-contemporary-importance-of-soviet-history/ War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/domenico-losurdo-war-and-revolution-rethinking-the-twentieth-century.pdf Historical Revisionism and Delegitimation of the Revolutionary and Anticolonial Tradition—A Review of War and Revolution https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21598282.2016.1172752 Liberals and Reactionaries http://www.leninology.co.uk/2011/10/liberals-and-reactionaries.html From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/07/inde-j03.html THE MYTH OF THE “CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION” https://socialistworker.org/2011/12/14/myth-of-the-conservative-revolution Communist and Neo-Babouvist readings of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution https://www.academia.edu/38110441/_Communist_and_Neo_Babouvist_readings_of_the_Enlightenment_and_the_French_Revolution_in_E_Vallance_ed_Remembering_Early_Modern_Revolutions_London_Routledge_2018

  • July 27 · 20 min

    Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 07/24/2026

    JD Vance Admits Epstein Was Mossad and Israel Derailed Negotiations, Pentagon Budget Crisis, US Weapons Shortage, Failure and Firings in Ukraine... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

  • July 23 · 17 min

    PATREON PREVIEW -- "If you can keep it" : The Death of the Republic?

    This week the boys all got together to do a bonus episode about the current state of the republic. We are clearly ailing as a society and we are clearly in trouble as a country. Will the decline of the empire lead to the fall of the republic? Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

  • S8 · E20
    July 15 · 1 hr 47 min

    Abolition Democracy or Reconstruction Democracy? A Discussion With Comrade Brad

    This week we sat down with our comrade Brad, a union organizer and CPUSA member, to discuss an article he wrote about two conflicting visions of radical change at the heart of the unfinished American Revolution and its implications for the contemporary workers' movement. Abolition Democracy or Reconstruction Democracy? Working-Class Leadership and the Unfinished Democratic Revolution https://newjubileenotes.substack.com/p/abolition-democracy-or-reconstruction

  • July 11 · 18 min

    Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 07/10/2026

    Israel Tried to Assassinate Iran's Negotiators, The Abysmal State of US Oil Reserves, The War is Back the Strait is Closed, Ukraine on the Brink, Russian Advance Slowed but Ukrainian Losses Surge... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

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