The Regrettable Century

This week we sat down with our old comrade and actual Psychiatrist, Dr Byron, to talk about mental health, the left, and how TikTok is ruining everyones brains. Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness (review for relevant book)https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/03/psychiatric-hegemony-marxist-theory-mental-illness/ What the Anti-Psychiatry Movement Got Wrong About Mental Illnesshttps://jacobin.com/2022/03/anti-psychiatry-movement-mental-illness-psychological-suffering Psychiatry Won’t Solve Our Mental Health Crisis — Only Politics Can Do Thathttps://jacobin.com/2023/12/psychiatry-history-trauma-politics-medicine-mental-healthThis Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers (NYT discussing the WISE Teens Study)https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/teenagers-mental-health-treatment.htmlThe functions of the mental health system under capitalism https://joannamoncrieff.com/2022/03/28/the-functions-of-the-mental-health-system-under-capitalism/Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Jason and Varn are joined again by Sean KB of Antifida and continue with their close reading of The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin. Check out Varn Vlog:https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog/postsCheck out the ANTIFADA:https://www.patreon.com/theantifadaSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This month we return to Richard Seymour's essay about the new forms of nationalism. At this point the essay is a few years old, so we were able to discuss how things have developed since it was written. We also did not know that a book by the same name by Seymour was coming out soon... Prepared for the Worst: Disaster Nationalismhttps://salvage.zone/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/Disaster Nationalism: THE DOWNFALL OF LIBERAL CIVILIZATIONhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761156/disaster-nationalism-by-richard-seymour/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.Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week the boys got together to talk about political apostasy. From the old left, to the new left, to whatever the hell it is that we have now. We discuss the motivations and consequences of jumping ship. The Ex-Communist’s Consciencehttps://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1950/ex-communist.htm Turned Around: Why Leftists Go Righthttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/why-leftists-go-right  From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristolhttps://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol_2.html The Neoconservative Counterrevolutionhttps://jacobin.com/2015/04/neoconservatives-kristol-podhoretz-hartman-culture-warHow Ex-Communists Shaped American Conservatismhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/how-ex-communists-shaped-american-conservatism/426849/ Trotskyconshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2003/06/trotskycons-stephen-schwartz/The Neoconservative Journeyhttps://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817945725_105.pdf The Legacy of the Trotskyist Righthttps://www.toqonline.com/archives/v6n2/SneigoskiTOQV6N2.pdfLike our theme song? Check out Autumn Brigade here: https://autumnbrigade.bandcamp.com/album/geist-ist-totSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This week Jason and Varn sat down to have a primer discussion about the different types of American Conservatism. Don't worry, we will be back later this month with more Dugin. Check out Varn Vlog here: https://www.patreon.com/varnvlogSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Welcome to our seventh and FINAL reading group episode on Revolution: An Intellectual History, by Enzo Traverso.  We had a lot of fun with this series and will be starting a new one soon. Head on over to the Discord if you would like to be involved. Special thanks to our comrade Connor at Autumn Brigade for our new intro music. Check his music out here: https://autumnbrigade.bandcamp.com/album/geist-ist-totTraverso, Enzo. 2021. Revolution : An Intellectual History. London ; New York: Verso.https://www.versobooks.com/products/2783-revolutionSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

As recovering Third Campists ourselves, we sit down to discuss the lingering problems that the third camp of Trotskyism has always had and how they are much dumber in their contemporary incarnation. Resignation from the Fourth International - Natalia Sedova Trotskyhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/sedova-natalia/1951/05/09.htm Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/winter-2020/against-campism-for-international-working-class-solidarity/ The Third Camp, Socialism From Below, and the First Principle of Revolutionary Socialism https://newpol.org/issue_post/third-camp-socialism-below-and-first-principle-revolutionary-socialism/Libya’s revolution, U.S. intervention, and the left https://isreview.org/issue/77/libyas-revolution-us-intervention-and-left/index.html Ukraine and fetishising the anti-NATO call https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-05-04/ukraine-and-fetishising-anti-nato-call Like our theme song? Check out Autumn Brigade here! Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This is a Patreon episode that we recorded in April of 2022. We decided to post this on our main feed at the request of several of our patrons who said more people should hear it. Continuing in the spirit of our discussion about the synthesis of socialism from above and below, we decided to dive a bit deeper into a topic that we have referenced many times in passing. The liberal narrative about the revolution is that it was a coup carried out by the Soviet Union against the will of the Czechoslovak people, but a cursory glance at how the revolution unfolded reveals a much different tale. Czechoslovakia 1948- By Joseph Grim Feinberg in Jacobin Magazine The Czechoslovak Revolution- By Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart in Foreign Affairs Magazine  Duchacek, Ivo. “The February Coup in Czechoslovakia.” World Politics2, no. 4 (1950): 511–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/2008933.Myant, Martin. Socialism and Democracy in Czechoslovakia: 1945 - 1948. Soviet and East European Studies 33. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981.Music: Hej, slnko vychodí - (Hey, the sun is out) composed by Bartolomej Urbanec and sung in Slovak. Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

Jason and Varn continue with their close reading of The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin. **This is a 30m preview of a 3 hour long episode**Check out Varn Vlog here:https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog/postsSend us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show

This episode of InForm:Podcast is a re-release and cross-post of an older interview done with From78 (of Lost Horizons fame). It was originally posted several lifetimes ago, in 2020, but has been re-released by InForm so we decided to promote it here.Go check out the full episode: https://www.surplusjouissance.com/inform-podcast/Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show