The Regrettable Century

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Join the boys as they send Red Library off to the Gray Havens with this final episode in our Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition series.  In this weeks episode we dive into Magee's explanation of Hegel's The Science of Logic as the Kabbalistic Tree, The Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit as alchemical formulae, and the Philosophy of Objective and Absolute Spirit as the rose in the cross of the present.   Magee, Glenn A. Hegel and the hermetic tradition. Ithaca, N.Y. Bristol: Cornell University Press University Presses Marketing distributor, 2008.Suite II in g minor- Robert FluddSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we would like to introduce to you to The Measures Taken. The Measures Taken is a podcast about the intellectual history of  the key debates that occurred in Marxism and it also happens to be one of Jason's side projects. All of the contributors to the podcast come from different corners of the American left and believe that they have all been miseducated. This podcast is an attempt at self education and an encouragement for others to do the same. https://www.themeasurestaken.org/Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Christopher Lasch is a figure that draws strong reactions from people all over the political spectrum. Lasch's later work spoke of a growing chasm between liberal managerial elites and the traditional working class (endearing him to some conservatives), but his older work falls solidly within the tradition of homegrown American socialist politics. Our friend and comrade, C. Derick Varn, is currently co-authoring a book on Christopher Lasch, and he stopped by to tell us why Lasch is worth reading.Books by Christopher LaschMusic- Incendiary- ZeitgeistSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop