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I know we said we were done with our Czechoslovak Socialism series, but like George Lucas we just couldn't leave well enough alone and have made a prequel. It turns out there is an interesting pre-history to Czechoslovak Socialist Republic that is worth discussing. Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions.Support the showSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

No Royal Road is back with part four of our discussion of Evegny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason."Check out Varn Vlog here:https://www.patreon.com/varnvlogSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Our third reading group episode on Revolution: An Intellectual History, by Enzo Traverso. This week we discuss Concepts, Symbols, and Realms of Memory. Traverso, Enzo. 2021. Revolution : An Intellectual History. London ; New York: Verso.https://www.versobooks.com/products/2783-revolutionHead over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions.Support the showSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Kevin recently gave a talk about William Morris' transition from romantic anti-capitalism to Marxism and is thus well suited to school us on the subject. We decided to record it and share it with all of you.  How I Became a Socialist (William Morris)https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1894/hibs/hibs.htmUnder an Elm-Tree, Or, Thoughts in the Country-Side (William Morris)https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1889/commonweal/07-elm-tree.htmFacing the Worst of It (William Morris)https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1887/commonweal/02-facing-worst.htmWilliam Morris (E.P. Thompson)https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1959/william-morris.htmSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we return to an old favorite topic of ours, the warm stream, romantic, or gothic in Marxism. This time we are joined by an accredited expert in all things gothic, Jon from the Horror Vanguard. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437https://twitter.com/TheLitCritGuyBloch, Ernst, Neville Plaice, and Stephen Plaice. The Principle of Hope. Vol. 1. MIT Press, 1995.Music: Sisters of Mercy- She's a Monster Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Ukrainian Nationalism and Third Worldism in the Cold WarThis week we read and discussed Congo on the Dnipro: Third Worldism and the Nationalization of Soviet Internationalism in Ukraine by Thom Lloyd. The author discusses attempts by Ukrainian nationalists to appropriate the language of third world liberation struggles, but with a twist (spoiler alert, its a racist one).Loyd, Thom. "Congo on the Dnipro: Third Worldism and the Nationalization of Soviet Internationalism in Ukraine." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 22, no. 4 (2021): 787-811. doi:10.1353/kri.2021.0053.Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions.Support the showSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

The Patsocs are coming, the Patsocs are coming! There has been much fruitless discourse and claims of rising fascism among the keyboard proletarian vanguard about the problem of Social Patriotism. We got the original gang back together to talk about what the appropriate level for freaking out about it on the internet is. There is no contradiction between patriotism and socialismhttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/there-no-contradiction-between-patriotism-and-socialism Is There a Place for Patriotism on the Left?  https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/patriotism-left-nationalism/Democratic Socialism Must Be Internationalisthttps://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalismIn Defense of U.S. Proletarian Patriotismhttps://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/in-defense-of-us-proletarian-patriotism-a-comradely-response-to-danny-haiphongs-marxist-polemic-on-patriotic-socialism-by-kayla-popuchet British Communism’s Patriotic Diseasehttps://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/british-communisms-patriotic-disease The Case for a Left Patriotismhttps://www.thebellows.org/the-case-for-a-left-patriotism/Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Welcome to our second reading group episode on Revolution: An Intellectual History, by Enzo Traverso. This week we discuss BODIES. Traverso, Enzo. 2021. Revolution : An Intellectual History. London ; New York: Verso.Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions.Support the showSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

No Royal Road is back with part four of our discussion of Evegny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason."Check out Varn Vlog here:https://www.patreon.com/varnvlogSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Just like the Prague Spring, it seems clear that the intentions of its participants were the opposite. The vast majority of Czechoslovaks who participated in the movements that brought down the republic were attempting to reform the socialist system, not destroy it.Krapfl, James. Revolution with a Human Face Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992. Cornell University Press, 2017.Scott Brown. “Prelude to a Divorce? The Prague Spring as Dress Rehearsal for Czechoslovakia’s ‘Velvet Divorce.’” Europe-Asia Studies 60, no. 10 (2008): 1783–1804.Krishan Kumar (1992). The Revolutions of 1989: Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy. Theory and Society, 21(3), 309–356.Paal Sigurd Hilde (1999). Slovak Nationalism and the Break-Up of Czechoslovakia. Europe-Asia Studies, 51(4), 647–665.Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and join the Discord to take part in the discussions.Support the showSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop