The Regrettable Century

There are many on the left who seem to be incapable of letting a momentary upturn in struggle, or a softening of policy by the ruling class, pass without declaring the end of Capitalist realism.The common ruin of the contending classes is all we have to look forward to unless we can find a way to assert our agency. Until we realize our world historic mission, capitalist realism and its devastating consequences are here to stay. On the Current Conjuncturehttps://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4954-on-the-current-conjuncture?fbclid=IwAR0ZSlfzCQnDc43oIjNEKOtnmgsa0i_9_M-D8JXiJybodVBPd5sPSwlGzL4 Capitalist Catastrophismhttps://roarmag.org/magazine/capitalist-catastrophism/?fbclid=IwAR1ui303CjXt0fvl19Z9iRZH-oOshL4NEUlJU1do-7Fzpb04nxHdYLJWMNE Coronavirus Is the End of the End of Historyhttps://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/coronavirus-is-the-end-of-the-end-of-history?fbclid=IwAR2iCYlYdPJHfdrXVH9nzGpBld7YU_w8hedK0FPWfEv2OLmpX1bfwSUdJ-Q Music: Good Riddance- After the NightmareSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn. After Virtue: A Study in Moral TheoryMacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.Marxism and Ethicshttps://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.htmlPhilippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodness”https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/#NatuGood Marx’s Ethic of Freedomhttps://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/brenkert.htmSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

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Marxism needs a better system of ethics. We think that virtue ethics are compatible with the project of human emancipation, so does our friend C. Derick Varn. After Virtue: A Study in Moral TheoryMacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Print.Marxism and Ethicshttps://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2008/isj2-120/blackledge.htmlPhilippa Foot, major founder of contemporary virtue ethics, “Natural Goodness”https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/#NatuGood Marx’s Ethic of Freedom https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/brenkert.htmSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Everyone knows what the happiness industry is, that vapid misapplication of eastern spiritual practice, adapted to help stave off deaths by despair or convince you that alienated depression is the fault of your brain chemistry and not the crushing weight of capitalism. As the contemporary left is little more than liberalism turned up to 11, it should surprise no one to learn that there is a "socialist" version of this as well. We sat down to talk about how it is dumb and bad. How to pronounce schadenfreudehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_DjiLLDfoLeft-Wing Hypomaniahttps://thebaffler.com/latest/left-wing-hypomania-chaudharyIs socialism winning?https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/12/is-socialism-winning/ National Political Committee newsletter — 85,000 members stronghttps://www.dsausa.org/news/npc-newsletter-nov2020/There Was Actually a Lot of Good News for the Left on Election Dayhttps://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/downballot-socialist-elected-election-day-dsaMusic: Cro Mags- Face the Facts Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

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This week we continue our discussion about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist framework to understand and act upon The world?Join us while we discuss the messy dialectic of Marxism and Psychoanalysis.Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Marxismhttps://studylib.net/doc/8039634/lacanian-psychoanalysis-and-revolutionary-marxism?fbclid=IwAR2nemqbBANbjSBbujrUj13lEfRXiNwLNxOheqF-2lcAHIg8qnt3oj2dnlALacan, Psychoanalysis and the Lefthttps://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1980/no2-007/collier.html?fbclid=IwAR3vxo07JAlZNdWf9gaGYNzPhEvwoGW--urPkFNAGU6Wo_X3yg3HmVcQwYAThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalytic Marxism https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/59?fbclid=IwAR3J552MAOY2YZPfGvV06iwa3dfvfltc0-gDloNqFUZHzyCaWFZrYrrpXyoThe Lost Horizons Networkhttps://losthorizonsnetwork.com/The Lost Horizons Network PodcastWell... Here we are still, after all.https://well.transistor.fm/Red Library Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/postsFrom78 Podcasthttps://www.patreon.com/from78Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week we are joined by Alex and Adam from Red Library to talk about what psychoanalysis can offer to Marxism. Both Adam and Alex are Marxists who study psychoanalysis and find it to be useful to their Marxism, but do not consider themselves Freduo-Marxist or Lacanian-Marxists. Is it necessary to create a new type of Marxism every time we incorporate a new lens to help us understand Marxism? Is it possible for us to have a myriad of influences and inspirations while maintaining a Marxist framework to understand and act upon The world? Join us while we discuss the messy dialectic of Marxism and Psychoanalysis. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Revolutionary Marxismhttps://studylib.net/doc/8039634/lacanian-psychoanalysis-and-revolutionary-marxism?fbclid=IwAR2nemqbBANbjSBbujrUj13lEfRXiNwLNxOheqF-2lcAHIg8qnt3oj2dnlALacan, Psychoanalysis and the Lefthttps://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1980/no2-007/collier.html?fbclid=IwAR3vxo07JAlZNdWf9gaGYNzPhEvwoGW--urPkFNAGU6Wo_X3yg3HmVcQwYAThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalytic Marxism https://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/59?fbclid=IwAR3J552MAOY2YZPfGvV06iwa3dfvfltc0-gDloNqFUZHzyCaWFZrYrrpXyo The Lost Horizons Networkhttps://losthorizonsnetwork.com/The Lost Horizons Network PodcastWell... Here we are still, after all.https://well.transistor.fm/Red Library Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/postsFrom78 Podcasthttps://www.patreon.com/from78Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week we are joined by Adam, Don, and Alex from the Red Library. We continue our multi part series tackling the monster tome by Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.McCarraher believes that capitalism displaced religion and disenchanted the world and that Capitalism then became a religion itself, replacing the sacramental enchantment of the pre-capitalist world with a pecuniary enchantment that he calls Mammonism.In our fifth installment we deal with the Heavenly City of Fordism and the Machine Age. McCarraher, Eugene. The enchantments of Mammon : how capitalism became the religion of modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Print.MUSIC: Micah No 5- ApologetixThe Lost Horizons Networkhttps://losthorizonsnetwork.com/The Lost Horizons Network PodcastWell... Here we are still, after all.https://well.transistor.fm/Red Library Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/postsFrom78 Podcasthttps://www.patreon.com/from78Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

We read Richard Seymour's Article from Salvage Quarterly about Disaster Nationalism and talked about it. Tune in to hear about  the Chad Nationalism’ of ‘sexy’, ‘dangerous’, gym-hitting boys, zaddy fascism, and listen while we parse rightisms and talk about how Trump and the GOP (still) aren't fascists. https://salvage.zone/articles/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/Click through to join our Patreon for $2 a month to hear the rest of the discussion. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show