The Regrettable Century

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the whole episode and sign up on our Discord to take part in future Patron Roundtables. We were joined by some of our choicest patrons to discuss the fine distinctions between genres of Tankie.  Join us on our Discord to plan out to plan out the next one, then remember to come join in the discussion. All patrons are welcome!Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

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 showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We are dumb babies who don't understand Hegel. Sam, who recently joined our network as a part of the Red Library's The Red Desert series is not. He sat down with us and helped us understand some key Hegelian concepts that he posits need to be understood in order to continue the radicalization of Marxism. Mladan Dolar on The Phenomenology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6sG1nw0m_w Lecture on the Zizek chapter below. https://youtu.be/gk0A12NYKS8 1. The Hegel Variations by Frederic Jameson - The chapters "Idealism", "Oppositions" and "Spirit as Collectivity"2. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek - The chapter "Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx" 3. The Restlessness of the Negative by Jean-Luc Nancy - The chapter "Restlessness"4. Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse - The chapters "Hegel's First system" and "Introduction: From Philosophy to Social Theory"https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/reason/reason-and-revolution.pdf 5. Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution by Rebecca Comay - The Introduction "French Revolution, German Misère" 6. Gramsci's Hegelian Marxism by Paul Piccone 7. Hegel and Freud by Alenka Zupančič  8. The Dash by Rebecca Comay & Frank Ruda - The Introduction "Hegel to the Letter"In forwarded email.Music: Cursed- Hegel's Bastards The Lost Horizons Networkhttps://losthorizonsnetwork.com/The Lost Horizons Network Podcast:https://share.transistor.fm/s/c3bf81ddRed Library Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/redlibrary/postsFrom78 Podcasthttps://www.patreon.com/from78Support 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

Hey everyone, we turned two! You guys keep listening to us for some reason and we are happy about it. For our birthday party we sat down to talk about highlights, lowlights, and what we hope to do in the future. Please enjoy the very last episode of year two before we kick off what we hope will be an exciting and fruitful year three! Music: Modern Life is War- Night Shift at the Potato FactorySend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We recorded an episode, about something else, but in the process we talked about the election for 45 minutes. Here it is! Keep in mind this episode was recorded as results were coming in on the day after the election. Music: Bad Religion- Fuck ArmageddonSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop