The Regrettable Century

The Five Year Fuel Crisis, US Fails to Care for Iran War Wounded, Israel at Risk of Civil War and Collapse, Cartels Training in Ukraine, No Russia is not Losing the War...   Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

This week the boys sat down to do their second 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? From the article: "Hitler and his associates ruled by perverted means because they were evil, and with their malice they were able to win over their masses. Today there are evil people again, and they m...

  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. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

US Removes Al-Qaeda Syria From Terror List, Ansar Allah Victory Steamroller, Netanyahu Busted, The US Keeps Losing in Iran, Ukraine is Losing the War, The Offensive that Wasn't... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

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? From the article: "Hitler and his associates ruled by perverted means because they were evil, and with their malice they were able to win over their masses. Today there are evil people again, and they must not be...

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 Re...

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...

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

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

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 fundamental...

Pentagon Wants to Retreat From the Persian Gulf, Shipping Chaos Threatens World Food Supply, Arms Manufacture Scam, Mossad Iran Purge, Israel Bombs Turkish Assets in Syria, Royal Navy Too Small and Weak, Ukraine Drone War Failure and Russian Breakthroughs...   Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store    

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.   Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

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.    The Problem With Left Nationalism https://jacobin.com/2026/01/left-nationalism-universalism-populism-melenchon     The Left and...

  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.   Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

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... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

This week we continue our series on republicanism by returning to an episode we did on the complicated legacy of the American Revolution. This older episode now has a 40 minute preface where we discuss the episode and how much things have changed since the original, enjoy!  Like the bourgeois project as a whole, the historical consequences of the American Revolution have had mixed results. Simulta...

JD Vance Admits Epstein Was Mossad and Israel Derailed Negotiations, Pentagon Budget Crisis, US Weapons Shortage, Failure and Firings in Ukraine... Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

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? Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

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.    Abolition Democracy or Reconstruction Democracy? Working-Class Leadership and the Unfinished Democratic Revolution https://ne...

Israel Tried to Assassinate Iran's Negotiators, The Abysmal State of US Oil Reserves, The War is Back the Strait is Closed, Ukraine on the Brink, Russian Advance Slowed but Ukrainian Losses Surge...   Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century merch store

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. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW IMPROVED Regrettable Century's merch store

*The first version of this episode was only an hour long for some reason. We've re-uploaded the full episode which is a half hour longer.* 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, w...

Last week's British race riots were largely organized by a rising movement of affiliated neo-Nazi organizations called Active Clubs. It should surprise no one that they have direct links to Ukraine. This week we do a close read of an article from the Azov Lobby Blog and discuss the outsized impact of Ukraine's Azov movement on global neo-Nazism. Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the NEW I...

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.  From the publisher: In The People Are Not One, Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn dismantle the central illusion of contemporary left politics: that “the people” can serve as a coherent subject of emancipation. Against both right and left populisms, they ar...

Trump Threatens Iran and Backs Down Again, US Intel Upgrades Israel's Espionage Threat Level, Israel's Plans For Radical Militarization and Autarky, Sy Hersh Says Trump Wanted to Use Nukes on Iran, Ukraine's Long Range Strikes Aren't Going to Win the War...   Join the Regrettable Century Patreon Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop