The Regrettable Century

Welcome to the third episode of a new collaborative series with Varn Vlog and the Regrettable Century, where we will be talking about history, historiography, social technologies, relations of production, modes of production, and most importantly, transitions.In this episode, we continue talking about the other transition, the transition to the feudal mode of production.Chris Wickham, THE OTHER TRANSITION: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO FEUDALISM, Past & Present, Volume 103, Issue 1, May 1984, Pages 3–36https://www.patreon.com/varnvlogSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Last year, Neil Gorman and Regrettable Chris hung out during the Christmas break to talk about how bad higher education had gotten during the pandemic. This clip however, is a little preview of the other stuff they talked about.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.Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week we further explore our critique of technology under capitalism. Chris was absent from the recording due to grad school reasons, so Jess led the charge on this one. We ultimately determine that technology is bad and the Luddites were right.The Rise of the Machineshttps://jacobinmag.com/2013/04/the-rise-of-the-machines  The Ideology Behind Technologyhttps://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3333-the-ideology-behind-technologyThe Case Against Naive Technocapitalist Optimismhttps://consilienceproject.org/the-case-against-naive-technocapitalist-optimism/Marx on Technologyhttps://andymerrifield.org/2019/09/29/marx-on-technology/ HYPER-REALITYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs&t=291s Music: Bathsheba- At the End of EverythingSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week Jason teaches us about the history of American socialism. We start with the beginnings of the movement in the late 19th century and ends just after the Second World War. Cannon, James P. The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-1938 : Report of a participant. New York: Pathfinder, 2002.Drucker, Peter. Max Shachtman and His Left : A Socialist's Odyssey Through the "American century. Amherst: Prometheus, 2001.Foner, Philip S. The Great Labor Uprising of 1877. New York: Pathfinder, 2002.Ginger, Ray. The Bending Cross : A biography of Eugene Victor Debs. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2007.Gornick, Vivian. The Romance of American Communism. London Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2020.Johanningsmeier, Edward P. Forging American Communism : The Life of William Z. Foster. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.Kelley, Robin D. Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.Kipnis, Ira. The American Socialist Movement, 1897-1912. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2004.Naison, Mark D. Communists in Harlem During the Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.Weinstein, James. The Decline of Socialism in America, 1912-1925. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1984.Music: Talking Union- Pete Seeger Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Welcome to the second episode of a new collaborative series with Varn Vlog and the Regrettable Century, where we will be talking about history, historiography, social technologies, relations of production, modes of production, and most importantly, transitions.On this episode we continue  talking about the other transition, the transition to the feudal mode of production.Chris Wickham, THE OTHER TRANSITION: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO FEUDALISM, Past & Present, Volume 103, Issue 1, May 1984, Pages 3–36https://www.patreon.com/varnvlogSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This is the first episode in a series on the book Psychoanalytic Politics by Sherry Turkle. We teamed up with Neil, our Lost Horizons alumnus of From 78 fame, to talk about this book he likes and thought we might too. Neil is really into psychoanalysis and we are really into politics, we figured this would be a good book to  bridge our interests and have a discussion.Check out InForm here:https://inform.transistor.fm/ Turkle, Sherry. Psychoanalytic politics : Jacques Lacan and Freud's French revolution. London New York: Free Association Books Guilford Press, 1992.Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week we have the whole gang together to celebrate the 100th episode of The Regrettable Century. We discuss the highlights of the previous year, how dumb we were as children, and how violent punk shows used to be. Listen as we make our political predictions for the upcoming year and actually figure out how to do Marxist virtue ethics. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

From the first installment of the Regrettable Book Club's reading of Antonio Labriola's Socialism and Philosophy covering the introduction by Paul Piccone.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 show (http://patreon.com/theregrettablecentury)Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Welcome to a new collaborative series with  Varn Vlog and the Regrettable Century, where we will be talking about history, historiography, social technologies, relations of production, modes of production, and most importantly, transitions. We start off by talking about the other transition, the transition to the feudal mode of production. Chris Wickham, THE OTHER TRANSITION: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO FEUDALISM, Past & Present, Volume 103, Issue 1, May 1984, Pages 3–36https://www.patreon.com/varnvlogSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week Chris joins Jason on another one of his side projects, A Fine Old Conflict, which he does with our friend and comrade, Matthew. The guys talk about their shared background of punk rock/pop-culture and whether or not the new Refused album was any good.  If you enjoy this discussion, please check out A Fine Old Conflict .  Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show