300 Episodes

  1. The Pinnacle of Spectacle: Trump, War, and Opposition in Late Spectacular Capitalism

    Published: 02/07/2025

  2. PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 6/28/2025

    Published: 30/06/2025

  3. On Care For Our Common Home: Laudato Si and Christian Anti-Capitalism (Part I)

    Published: 25/06/2025

  4. Patreon Preview: The Question of Nationalities & Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: (Episode XI) FINAL

    Published: 19/06/2025

  5. PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 06/09/2025

    Published: 12/06/2025

  6. The Velvet Counterrevolution/Divorce (Czechoslovak Socialism Part III) *UNLOCKED*

    Published: 09/06/2025

  7. Patreon Preview -- Boundless and Bottomless Bonus: Updates On Pessimism

    Published: 05/06/2025

  8. Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode X)

    Published: 28/05/2025

  9. From Dawn to Decadence (Part IV) With Varn Vlog

    Published: 26/05/2025

  10. Trump's America and the Working Class Fightback (Crossposted From the For a New Republic podcast)

    Published: 20/05/2025

  11. PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/17/2025

    Published: 19/05/2025

  12. The Ever Present Present: The Long Now and the Cancellation of the Future

    Published: 12/05/2025

  13. PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/09/2025

    Published: 11/05/2025

  14. PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 05/02/2025

    Published: 05/05/2025

  15. The Stumbling God Emperor (or the 100 Days of Gomorrah)

    Published: 30/04/2025

  16. PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 04/24/2025

    Published: 28/04/2025

  17. Patreon Preview -- For What We Will: A Brief History of American Socialism (For the New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies)

    Published: 27/04/2025

  18. Freedom Stumbles On: Hegel and the Slaughter-Bench of History (PART II)

    Published: 21/04/2025

  19. PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 04/12/2025

    Published: 15/04/2025

  20. Patreon Preview -- The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy by Otto Bauer: Regrettable Book Club (Episode X)

    Published: 11/04/2025

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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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