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The Regrettable Century

The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We’re making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers’ movement for socialism.

Podcast · By Chris, Jason, Kevin, Ben · American English · Official site

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Sep 16, 2026
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    PATREON PREVIEW -- Liberalism, But Make It Really Racist: AFD & the Surge of Right Wing "Populism" In Europe (opens the original)

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    This week, the boys got together with our official European correspondent, Matthew, to talk about the triumph of the AFD in the Anhalt Sachsen elections this past week and end up talking about the European Right, Fascism, Post-Fascism, and how to keep losing elections to racist ghouls while acting morally superior and helping no one. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

  2. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    Dawn to Decadence: The Decadent Society- With Varn Vlog (Part I) (opens the original)

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    Welcome to a special, long-form collaboration: The Regrettable Century and VarnVlog combined in our Captain Planet team of pessimism. Today, we are opening up a comprehensive multi-part investigation into New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's landmark 2020 thesis, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victim of Our Own Success. Drawing its name and conceptual infrastructure from Jacques Barzun’s classic From Dawn to Decadence, Douthat’s work defines a decadent society not as a spectacular mo

  3. Episode · Sep 5, 2026

    Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 09/04/2026 (opens the original)

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    Economic D-Day, Iran Strikes Back, US Army Secretary Resigns in Protest, Iran's Financial Situation, Azov on the Rise, The Zionist/Ukrainian Nazi Alliance, Inter-Agency Intel War in Kiev, Russia Advances... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

  4. Episode · Aug 31, 2026

    PATREON PREVIEW: The Foundations of Vibes Based Socialism (opens the original)

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    This week the dudes and the patrons got together to chill and discuss the overall vibes in the world. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

  5. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology- With Dean and Matt from The Magnificast (opens the original)

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    This week the boys sat down with Dean and Matt from The Magnificast to discuss their new book. From the editor: Capitalism's excessive patterns of production and consumption are fueling the biggest existential threat to humanity: climate change. The central assumption of our current economic system puts economic growth before all other values. But infinite growth on a finite planet is fundamentally impossible. We must embrace the idea of degrowth. With a name like "degrowth," misunderstandings a

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