The Regrettable Century

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. For our second Patron roundtable the crew had a well rounded discussion that included making fun of dumb conspiracies, talking about the myriad of actual conspiracies, and  finally what makes conspiratorial logic so appealing to the right and left alike . 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!   Materials used in discussion:Jameson, Fredric. The geopolitical aesthetic : cinema and space in the world system. Bloomington London: Indiana University Press BFI Pub, 1992. Print.https://www.d.umn.edu/~cstroupe/ideas/cognitivemap.htmlGood Conspiracy Documentary Serieshttps://www.fox.com/the-x-files/Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

Steven from The Supreme Leap Forward is back to talk about why the Supreme Court is a regressive, reactionary, and profoundly undemocratic institution that needs to be abolished. Waiting for SCOTUShttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/waiting-for-scotus?fbclid=IwAR1fZ-KItsd9Yfp9d5qGr-8Hr8QTZnkf6e1LCWCaaGIvXHW0JmMJfyULNJoAmy Coney Barrett Worked on Bush v. Gorehttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/amy-coney-barrett-bush-gore-election-trump?fbclid=IwAR1xku0mvqk2RbgGEm3enLD6O7hkrP_Gl4Mj8fA7rYf6lCkXthUvuWB506cThe Future of the Supreme Court in the Liberal Imaginationhttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/supreme-court-trump-kavanaugh-liberalism?fbclid=IwAR18XUaifhwGcQVU72w9znE581wzvzx4Gz6ExUI5-HHFDORi81sFmhOoKC0The Scandal of Democracy: Seven Theseshttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/supreme-court-senate-electoral-college-undemocratic?fbclid=IwAR1fZ-KItsd9Yfp9d5qGr-8Hr8QTZnkf6e1LCWCaaGIvXHW0JmMJfyULNJoSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from 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 fourth installment we deal with the populists, socialists, and anarchists during the golden age of the American left. 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: SpacecatazThe 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

For all of our claims to be historical materialists, there is nothing that the left loves more than a great leader to guide us to victory. If we are to make history, but not in circumstances of our own choosing, what role do we actually have to play as individuals? What role does the extraordinary person play in making history?“History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give rise to one resultant — the historical event.”Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840)http://history.furman.edu/benson/fywbio/carlyle_great_man.htmOn the Role of the Individual in Historyhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html Karl Marx and his conception of historyhttps://mronline.org/2018/05/11/karl-marx-and-his-conception-of-history/The individual and the Marxist view of historyhttps://www.marxist.com/the-individual-and-the-marxist-view-of-history.htmMusic- Armageddon Blues by Power Trip Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

No. Woke Capitalism Is Not Your Friendhttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/brands-corporate-publicity-racial-justiceWhere Are the Woke Capitalists Now?https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/01/where-are-all-woke-capitalists-nowWoke Capitalists Can Save Americahttps://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/05/how-the-woke-capitalists-can-save-america/#13af4c0671edThe Rise of Woke Capitalhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/opinion/corporate-america-activism.htmlWhy Corporations Can No Longer Avoid Politicshttps://time.com/5735415/woke-culture-political-companies/Woke America Is Pre-Revolutionary Russiahttps://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/woke-america-pre-revolutionary-russia/Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Freehttps://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-freeThe 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/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we have unlocked the second half of our discussion with Phd Candidate Chris Manno. We discussed the differences between objective, subjective, and instrumental reason and how philosophers have moved through these three in stages culminating in the mercenary use of instrumental reason for the justification of the status quo. Modern philosophy has focused on the latter forms of reason to the point of rejecting any objective understanding on the world, a situation that is tailor made for exploitation of people and the planet under capitalism.Horkheimer, Max. Eclipse of reason. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2013. Print.Marcuse, Herbert. One-dimensional man : studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. Print.Music: The Flying Dutchman Overture- Richard WagnerThe 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/from78 Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

We read an article about recuperation and talked about the concept within the context of the contemporary social unrest that is currently gripping the United States. Does every movement for social change eventually get recuperated? Yes. Is it still worth engaging in social movements? Also yes. To hear the full episode, join our Patreon for $2 a month. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop

This week we are joined once again by Adam and Don from Red Library, we even had a brief appearance by Kevin.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 third installment we deal with the Robber Barons, corporate personhood, and the birth of American Imperialism. 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: Satyricon- Mother NorthThe 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 Swedish podcaster, activist, social worker, and Christian communist, Mir Bal to talk about Christianity and Marxism. We continue with our unending project of reuniting the cold and the warm streams of Marxism, by talking about the draw of Christians to the liberatory message of Marxism and what Marxists may be able to take away for the liberatory message of radical Christianity.  Horn. Western European liberation theology : the first wave (1924-1959. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.Catholic Case for Communism-  Dean Detloffhttps://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/07/23/catholic-case-communismCatholicism and Marx an Introduction- Chase Padusniakhttps://www.patheos.com/blogs/jappersandjanglers/2017/06/catholicism-marx-introduction/Marxism and Liberation Theology- Michael Lowyhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Va-4lh8qfXtv-YEDt2VuAGABdPEhBYs7/view?fbclid=IwAR2TMM9Q3FZQpWuyPBGGMvPBP0CgHmQ-LJqRvT8mIXtcEnVG5YLB8zgrqpoMUSIC: Pete Seeger- God Bless the GrassThe 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

Head over to our Patreon and join for $2 a month to hear part two of our conversation with Chris! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the showVisit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop