The Regrettable Century

Marxism had always contained within it a multiplicity of variations and is possessed, in equal parts, of the potential to be used for illumination and obfuscation. Nothing more clearly illustrates this than the early responses of Marxists to fascism.In our third installment of our series on the history of fascism, we dive into some more Marxist theories of fascism; specifically the German and Austrian Social Democratic Theories, Trotsky and Thalheimer, and then wrap up with a bit of Horkheimer. Our primary source of info for this episode is this wonderful book:https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1233-marxists-in-the-face-of-fascismThe 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/from78Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week we sat down with Patrick of the Radical Thoughts Podcast to talk about Walter Benjamin and his ideas of myth and rationality, capitalism as religion, and a number of other disconnected things that were just fun to talk about. Please check out Radical Thoughts as they read through the entire Zero Books Radical Thinkers series and subscribe to their patreon for bonus episodes. https://www.patreon.com/radicalthoughts/postsCapitalism and Religion-https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/capitalism-as-religion-benjamin-1921/ Benjamin, Walter, et al. Selected writings. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1996.Benjamin, Walter, and Rolf Tiedemann. The arcades project. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1999. Print.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 show

This week we have something special for you guys, our very first Lost Horizons Network collective podcast release, Here We Are Together, Still...After All. Join Chris and Jason from The Regrettable Century,  Adam from Red Library, and Neil from the From78 Podcast as we talk about what it means to be dialectically pessimistic. The Lost Horizons Network Podcast:https://share.transistor.fm/s/c3bf81ddRed 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

On Easter Monday, April 24 1916, 1,200 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army mustered in Dublin and declared the formation of the Irish Republic. Marxist and Irish Republican, James Conolly, led the Irish Citizen's Army in hopes that the Easter Rising would touch off a revolution in Ireland that would lead to the establishment of a Workers' Republic, the death of the British Empire, and the beginning of a socialist world revolution. Over a century later, Ireland is still ruled in the north by what remains of the British Empire, The Republic of Ireland is a Bankers' Republic, and hopes for the world revolution are a nostalgic memory... for now. Manifesto of the Irish Socialist Republican Party (Connolly):https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1896/xx/isrp.htmConnolly and the Paris Communehttps://jacobinmag.com/2016/04/james-connolly-paris-commune-easter-rising-tactics?fbclid=IwAR2NFon_XDCsFniTFdsVD1qM_u3m23fbJ88qKzokacYaSqghGlaPIAevu40Socialism Made Easy (Connolly) -- the only long-ish one:https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/james-connollys-socialism-made-easy-1909-11-political-action-laborEaster Rising Proclamation (original text):https://www.onthisday.com/photos/easter-proclamation-of-1916Socialism and Nationalism (Connolly):|https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/01/socnat.htmhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/xx/scirenat.htmSocialism and Religion (Connolly):https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1901/evangel/socrel.htmSocialism in Ireland (Connolly):https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/03/socinire.htmDirect Action in Belfast (Connolly):https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1911/09/diract.htmSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week, Jenny, Chris, and Jason read and discussed Jodi Dean's essay: The Four Theses on the Comrade.A comrade is much more than an identity that one adopts. It is an ethos, an ideal for the collective reorganization of the world. We talk about how this is a concept that the left has abandoned and needs to find again.Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear the full episode. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

The old world is dying and a new one is being created before our eyes. Thus far, the left has had little if any input into this process. If we don't insert ourselves into the conversation with great haste, a much worse version of our current hellscape will be the outcome. What kind of project will be necessary to salvage the useful pieces of detritus needed to build a better world? To that end, we sat down with our good friend Michael to talk about how to build a better post-apocalyptic world. The Mask of the Red Death: Dispatch One from a Changing World- Salvage Editorial Boardhttps://salvage.zone/articles/the-mask-of-the-red-death-dispatch-one-from-a-changing-world/The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene- Salvage Editorial Boardhttps://salvage.zone/editorials/the-tragedy-of-the-worker-towards-the-proletarocene/Under coronavirus, pro market ideologies are overturned around the world, But its too little, too late. - Jeff Sparrowhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/26/under-coronavirus-pro-market-ideologies-are-overturned-around-the-world-but-its-too-little-too-late?fbclid=IwAR0i6X8SfuLdlHyc119RYYlEqMUsT8XCBnK9ZsnFWJkjIagNCqC4D3YrYWMThe world after coronavirus- Yuval Noah Hararihttps://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75?fbclid=IwAR2f2bCCh3iBuc61PT_Nt4zLbthYaPQuodJsg0ee6Qwoocln65faxeK0cpYA Greater Depression? Nouriel Roubini https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-greater-great-depression-by-nouriel-roubini-2020-03?fbclid=IwAR2f6pVYUmXeacbcOx3TTobG_0vZodG0MVoJ2VrxVqtZPBcshLSQdapm3VwSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

(PART II)The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning.Löwy, Michael, and Robert Sayre. Romanticism against the tide of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.The Word, the Devil, and the Flesh- JD Bernalhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/Music: Alyans- Na ZareCosmonaut Magazinehttps://cosmonaut.blog/Cosmopod Podcasthttps://cosmopod.libsyn.com/Radical Thoughts Podcasthttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/patricks-podcastSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Jenny, Chris, and Jason sat down with our friend, rank and file union organizer, and CPUSA member Brad to talk about electoralism  and what the hell to do next.Please head over to our Patreon and subscribe for the insanely low fee of $2 a month to hear the rest.  https://www.patreon.com/theregrettablecenturySend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

The birth pangs of the bourgeois epoch included a multi faceted opposition in the form of romanticism. This reaction lauded humanity's lost connection to the natural world, to spirituality, and to a forgotten sense of communal life. While it is easy to point out the romantic strain in rightist political ideologies, we often overlook the one that has existed in Marxism since the beginning. Löwy, Michael, and Robert Sayre. Romanticism against the tide of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.The Word, the Devil, and the Flesh- JD Bernalhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/Music: ROME- The Accidents of Gesture Cosmonaut Magazinehttps://cosmonaut.blog/Cosmopod Podcasthttps://cosmopod.libsyn.com/Radical Thoughts Podcasthttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/patricks-podcastSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Our good friend and regular contributor to the show, Steven, brings his legal expertise and knowledge of early soviet law history to this weeks episode. We discuss the Evgeny Pashukanis, Pytor Stuchka, and their contributions to legal theory in the days just after the revolution. There was a debate among legal theorists of the time about whether it is possible to construct a socialist legal system and how the law should be used in a socialist society. Ultimately, Pashukanis would wind up on the losing side of the Socialism in One Country debate and would die for it. Intro to Pashukanishttps://www.dropbox.com/s/v4hto1qm5seti8o/Beirne%20%2B%20Sharlet_%20Introduction%20to%20Pashukanis%20%281979%29.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1AhfJGWw_YlZTFc6upxEp1g0eckeoXIISoJcatXx0RLub3rHholnE-LNkThe Passionate Legal Debates of the Early Years of...https://www.dropbox.com/s/58i5wg5uohkz43z/The%20Passionate%20Legal%20Debates%20of%20the%20Early%20Years%20of%20the%20Russian%20Revolution.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR05HcbLIu75Un3jH5t1KL8fJJCgMTKSd_Q2Ig5BpxkPmTJOvpAend6OpN8The trajectory of Yevgeniy Pashukanis and the struggle for power in Soviet lawhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/j6lbz606491nn60/The_trajectory_of_Yevgeniy_Pashukanis_an.docx.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1XD0XBMopt0ifkxOUV_iBVVN_1XLrq6TJk1BYyeiz7qcOW2kw3Ra7uaTEPrinciples of Soviet Criminal Lawhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/pxedstwf8pum00f/Principles%20of%20Soviet%20Criminal%20Law%2C%20Berman%2C%20Harold%20J%2056YaleLJ803.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1QWhZuohuU2cmfsLJzfArICrrZgeirgnVqEwdO7iFSgcZ_nDQeTHZeBkkLooking Back And Forward At The Turn of the Centuryhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/ldjvuuchv4krvha/15AustlJLSocy101.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR0vVUJaaPTGVRdwPXFLTNavu8UgH0XrG1QV7_vxg60Pq2WfJunQ6K_9HTEDont forget to check out our podcast network comrades:From 78https://twitter.com/From78podcastRed Libraryhttps://twitter.com/RedLibraryPodAnd coming soon, our network website...https://losthorizonsnetwork.com/Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show