300 Episodes

  1. Bathing in the Warm Stream: The Romantic and Gothic Strain of Marxism with Jon (TheLitCritGuy) of Horror Vanguard

    Published: 7/16/2023

  2. Patreon Preview: Third Worldism, but Make it Racist

    Published: 7/13/2023

  3. Much Ado About PATSOCS: Finding a Better Way to Talk About Working Class Patriotism

    Published: 7/3/2023

  4. Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso, Part II (Regrettable Book Club)

    Published: 6/28/2023

  5. No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism (Part IV)

    Published: 6/19/2023

  6. Patreon Preview: Velvet Counterrevolution & Divorce

    Published: 6/15/2023

  7. The Dialectic of Apotheosis: Lunacharsky and the Godbuilders

    Published: 6/5/2023

  8. Patreon Preview: Stalinism at War

    Published: 5/31/2023

  9. The French Conundrum (RE-UPLOAD): The Continuing Struggle Over Pension Reforms

    Published: 5/29/2023

  10. Patreon Preview: Revolution by Enzo Traverso, Part I (Regrettable Book Club)

    Published: 5/22/2023

  11. No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism (Part III)

    Published: 5/8/2023

  12. Patreon Preview -- Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia

    Published: 4/30/2023

  13. You're Not Making Liberals Socialist, You're Just Making Socialists More Liberal!

    Published: 4/17/2023

  14. Patreon Preview -- The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia

    Published: 4/5/2023

  15. Les Aristocrates à la Lanterne: The French Pension Reforms (With Matthew from A Fine Old Conflict)

    Published: 4/3/2023

  16. Patreon Preview: Neither Vertical nor Horizontal (Part IV -- Finale)

    Published: 3/27/2023

  17. No Royal Road: Neo-Feudalism, or the Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism (Part II)

    Published: 3/19/2023

  18. Setting Fears Afloat (Liquid Fear: Part III -- Finale)

    Published: 3/12/2023

  19. No Republic is Safe That Tolerates a Privileged Class: On Marxist Republicanism

    Published: 2/22/2023

  20. Patreon Preview: A Failed Empire

    Published: 2/13/2023

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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