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 Regrettable Century is a society podcast hosted by Chris, Jason, Kevin, Ben, with 380 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Chris, Jason, Kevin, Ben hosts The Regrettable Century, a society show with 380 episodes published.

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  Episode #22

  The Boys Determine the Correct Path and the Authentic Socialist Tradition

  Aug 13, 20261h 29mS8

  In this episode the boys continue their ongoing discussion of the influences of popular-socialism, folk-socialism, left-populism, and left-nationalism on the western workers' movement and how to navigate the impossible task of resurrecting the "Real Marxist" tradition. The Problem With Left Nationalism https://jacobin.com/2026/01/left-nationalism-universalism-populism-melenchon The Left and Its Meaning https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-and-its-meaning/ Folk Socialism — A Left-Populist Disorder https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/folk-socialism-a-left-populist-disorder/ A Socialism for the 21st Century https://truthout.org/articles/a-socialism-for-the-21st-century/ Neoliberalism and the Socialist Movement in Britain: From the Third Road to Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit https://mronline.org/2024/09/11/neoliberalism-and-the-socialist-movement-in-britain-from-the-third-road-to-jeremy-corbyn-and-brexit/ Marxist Internationalism or National Interest? https://www.theleftchapter.com/post/marxist-internationalism-or-national-interest People, class, democracy: re-mapping left populism from populist social democracy to popular socialism https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2024.2371506#d1e175

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  PATREON PREVIEW: Where is the Anti-War Movement?

  Aug 10, 202620 minS8

  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

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  Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 08/07/2026

  Aug 7, 202619 minS8

  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

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  Episode #21

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

  Jul 29, 20261h 48mS8

  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

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  Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 07/24/2026

  Jul 26, 202620 minS8

  JD Vance Admits Epstein Was Mossad and Israel Derailed Negotiations, Pentagon Budget Crisis, US Weapons Shortage, Failure and Firings in Ukraine...

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