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The Regrettable Century Podcast

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The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We discuss the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism. www.patreon.com/theregrettablecentury

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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The boys are back with another Q and A. We cover how to relate to anti-imperial struggles, the legacy of the American Revolution, super profits, the Frankfurt School, and the ever lowering horizons of the socialist movement. www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week the boys sat down to do a close reading of an article by the Kritikpunkt Team titled Fascism? For What? We deal with the age old question, is fascism on the rise and if so why?
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week, we to talk about the triumph of the AFD in the Anhalt Sachsen elections this past week. They ended 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.
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PATREON PREVIEW -- Liberalism, But Make It Really Racist: AFD & the Surge of Right Wing "Populism" In Europe | The Regrettable Century
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In this special collaboration with @varnvlog.bsky.social , we combined in our Captain Planet team of pessimism. We are opening up a 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.
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Dawn to Decadence: The Decadent Society- With Varn Vlog (Part I) | The Regrettable Century
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Worse than Holocaust denial because it’s providing cover for an ongoing genocide.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maritime tracking data confirms 6.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This week the dudes and the patrons got together to chill and discuss the overall vibes in the world. www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This week we sat down with Dean and Matt from @themagnificast.bsky.social to discuss their new book, #EnoughisEnough From the editor: …The problem isn't too few resources or too many people; it's capitalism's system of growth.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This week Jason and Kevin got together to do a close read the document that is causing American Conservatives to lose their minds, the new program of the Democratic Socialists of America. #DSA www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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Workers Deserve More: Interpreting the DSA Program | The Regrettable Century
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In this episode the boys continue their ongoing discussion of the influences of popular-socialism, folk-socialism, left-populism, and left-nationalism on the western workers' movement and how to navigate the impossible task of resurrecting the "Real Marxist" tradition.
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The Boys Determine the Correct Path and the Authentic Socialist Tradition | The Regrettable Century
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This week, two old veterans of about two and a half decades in the fight against half a dozen imperialist wars read and discussed an article about why there is not anti-war movement. www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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Where is the Anti-War Movement? | The Regrettable Century
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Iran War Strategic Summary, Iran and Oman Hormuz Agreement, The US is Out of Missiles, China Missile Practice on US Ship Models, Ukraine Bombs Restaurant, Ukraine 40 Day Drone War Failure, Ukraine Counteroffensive Failure, Ukraine Out of Air Defense Missiles... open.spotify.com/episode/03t2...
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Patreon Preview: Regrettable Geopolitics 08/07/2026
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This week we continue our series on republicanism by returning to an episode we did on the complicated legacy of the American Revolution. This old episode now has a 40 minute addendum where we discuss the episode and how much things have changed since the original, enjoy!
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Again, Let America be America Again... For Once (AGAIN)
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Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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What is Politics: Marxists Views of Plato, Idealism, Class Struggle, and the Noble Lie
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The world economy is toast, oil shock is hitting, Ukraine is in turmoil... yet another week when decades are happening. www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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Regrettable Geopolitics 07/24/2026 (JD Vance Admits Epstein Was Mossad and Israel Derailed Negotiations, Pentagon Budget Crisis, US Weapons Shortage, Failure and Firings in Ukraine) | The Regrettable...
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This week the boys all got together to do a bonus episode about the current state of the republic. We are clearly ailing as a society and we are clearly in trouble as a country. Will the decline of the empire lead to the fall of the republic? www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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"If you can keep it": The Death of the Republic? | The Regrettable Century
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This week we sat down with our comrade Brad, a union organizer and CPUSA member, to discuss an article he wrote about two conflicting visions of radical change at the heart of the unfinished American Revolution and its implications for the contemporary workers' movement.
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Abolition Democracy or Reconstruction Democracy? A Discussion With Comrade Brad
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We continue our month long series on American Communism by doing a close read and discussion of two articles about the Communist Party of the United States of America's role as the cutting edge of liberatory politics in the mid 20th century. www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
For America's 250th birthday, the boys got together to discuss the legacy of the American Revolution. There are two major poles of thought on the American left, with wildly differing interpretations of the American Revolution. They both make some good points, we discuss those here.
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Life, Liberty, and.... Slavery? The Mixed Legacy of 1776 (REUPLOAD)
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This week we invited Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn to talk about their new book, The People are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism.  www.patreon.com/theregrettab...
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Finally, the long-awaited end of 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang dives into the final chapters of this amazing book. www.patreon.com/posts/159390...
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Does this mean they’re finally going to name the navigator? I am sure they will, but they will be all fake. Just like this whole story is fake. I don't think theres an independent analyst out there who doesn't think this was a botched special ops enriched uranium grab. deadline.com/2026/05/mich...
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Michael Bay To Direct True Story Of Mission To Save Two Downed Pilots In Iran
Michael Bay is developing a movie chronicling the extraordinary rescue mission of the two U.S. pilots who were downed during Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Ukrainian nationalists have the fervor of the superiority of their race and their cause, but even there, the façade is beginning to crack. Ukraine is divided over whether or not to continue to wait for their miracle of the House of Brandenburg moment or accept defeat and sue for peace.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
For the European elites and the US permanent security state, the calculus is that Ukraine needs to keep weakening Russia so that eventually the Russian state will become too weak to compete with the West. The US' goal was to remove Russia from the board in order to focus on China.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
As #socialists, what should we think about conspiracy theories? Should the myriad secret diabolical acts perpetrated by the elites lead us to be more open minded toward the ravings of the open-minded so-called "lunatic fringe," Or does it even matter whether the theories are true?
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Conspiracy or Just Capitalism? Paranoia and Parapolitics in the Post-Epstein World
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This week's bonus episode is the second and last part of our close read close read of a 2021 article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Jason and Varn are back and discussing Dugin again. This discussion moves into Dugin's ideas about Fascism, Liberalism, and Communism and the need to transcend these ideologies in the 21st century before moving into the Heideggerian foundations of Dugin's thought. www.patreon.com/posts/156973...
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Boundless and Bottomless Seas: Dugin's 4th Political Theory (Part XII) | The Regrettable Century
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David 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @dskiwalker5750.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The Iranian regime is brutal and terrible, but they have absolutely no reason to talk to these clowns. These two obvious criminals, in the pockets of the Saudis and the Emirates, one conflict of interest after the other, barely qualified to negotiate a golf course, let alone a war
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"American military bases and other equipment in the Persian Gulf region suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged..." Hegseth's DOD not entirely candid? Can't be... www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...
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Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known
U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This week's bonus episode is a close read of an article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion. Stay tuned for part two. www.patreon.com/posts/155862...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have targeted its entire people and their achievements.
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Israel and the US Have Been Waging War on Iran’s Development
From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have targeted its entire people and their achievements.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It is not a conspiracy anymore.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hilarious. Watch oligarchy work.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I realize this is confusing, but the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran isn’t a domestic political story.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/04/2026
Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon.
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The Failure to Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Has Allowed It to Expand Into Lebanon
Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/04/2026
On Tuesday, Israel struck a major pharmaceutical factory in Tehran that is one of the country’s top producers of cancer drugs and anaesthetics.
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Israel Strikes Pharmaceutical Factory in Tehran That Made Cancer Drugs
“The only reason you would hit this target is to try to limit medicine production in Iran,” one expert said.
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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
As the world’s attention shifts to the US–Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon, the Israeli occupation continues killing Palestinians in Gaza. The farcical ceasefire is violated every day amid deafening silence. From restricted aid to the expanding “Yellow Line,” the genocide in Gaza continues.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trump and Putin: the climate heroes we deserve
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, we read an article by inveterate shitlib, defender of liberal imperialism, and misunderstander of history, @jonrauch.bsky.social Rauch has changed his mind about Trump being a fascist, and we are here to tell him he shouldn't have. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Weird Bisexual Wooper @goldensama.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh look its Tony Blair, the idiot sidekick of George W Bush, who was there for every war crime in Afghanistan and Iraq. Makes sense he's also cool with war crimes in Iran. Sure wish US and UK terrorists like Blair and Bush had gone to prison forever for their crimes.
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
All broadcast stations will be airing the speech. This is either going to be the biggest development of the century or a complete nothingburger that we will forget quickly. There’s literally no in between. #Trump #Iran #addresstothenation
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The Regrettable Century Podcast @regrettablecentury.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It's been 66 days since agents killed Alex Pretti. DHS has body-cam footage. They haven't released it. 66 days and counting. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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DHS says it has body-cam footage related to Pretti shooting in Minneapolis
The lawsuits aim to prevent federal officials from destroying evidence related to Alex Pretti’s killing and to end the surge of immigration officers in Minnesota.
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philipmartin77.bsky.social @philipmartin77.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
People in the US really don't know the only reason Iran has a religious theocracy is that the US overthrew the democratically elected gov't in Iran, and installed the brutal Shah, because they wanted to control their own oil ? Really ????
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