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The Regrettable Century

The Regrettable Century

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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. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.

“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
-- Antonio Gramsci

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  • Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society

    Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society
    Aug 11 2025

    This week the boys are joined by eternal co-host Jess to discuss the novelty of adults being adults. We discuss the self-infantilization of millennials and older zoomers, which is a reflection of the crisis of meaning and deep rot at the heart of liberal modernity. We believe this is the result of a purely self-oriented conception of liberty and the ideological victory of capital's redefinition of the very essence of what it means to be human.

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    Adulting in Middle Age
    https://jacobin.com/2024/01/adulting-middle-age-millennials-boomers

    Are millennials really an ‘infantilised generation’ - and if so, why?
    https://theweek.com/107508/are-millennials-infantilised-generation

    Arrested Development
    https://newint.org/features/2018/01/01/arrested-development

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    1 h et 13 min
  • Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part I of II)

    Patreon Preview: Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? (Part I of II)
    Aug 7 2025

    Today we read an article titled Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? Theorizing the nature and implications of the global far-right resurgence by Prof. Dr. Alex Demirović, which was published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. This is an excellent article that we think misses the mark in a few places and provides much fodder for discussion.

    Do We Need an Updated Theory of Fascism? by Alex Demirović

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    11 min
  • The Luddites Were Right, Actually

    The Luddites Were Right, Actually
    Jul 28 2025

    Marxist, as well as conservative and liberal bourgeois historians alike, have always had a fundamental misunderstanding about the Luddites. It turns out they weren't just reactionary peasants who feared technology and wanted to keep the world mired in an economy based on stacking sticks and mud. The Luddites weren’t resisting technology itself—they were fighting the economic systems that exploited them through it. This week, the boys dive into a conversation about Luddism's past, present, and future.


    The Luddites Were Right

    https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2021/06/the-luddites-were-right

    What the Luddites Really Fought Against https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

    Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of AI https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/10/02/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-a-i/

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    1 h et 2 min
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