Our Regrettable Trash Can of Ideology

This week we entered the archives and poured through the codices and scrolls containing the wisdom of past episodes to give you this curated trash can of Ideology. We highlighted some themes from the past six years of podcasting that we thought were worth underscoring and how our ideas may have changed... Our Underlying Philosophy of Dialectical Pessimism S1/Ep5: Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will S1/Ep26: The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out   S4/Ep7: Death of The Left S5/Ep21: Pessimism is an Optimism: Revisiting Pessimism Making Sense of Our Past S1/Ep27: Children of the Counterrevolution  S3/Ep12: The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment S3/Ep22: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Republic  S4/Ep3: The Tragedy of American Socialism   Rethinking What It Means To “Be” Revolutionary S1/Ep18: The Right to the City S2/Ep8: We Would Prefer Not To S5/Ep15: The Legacy of William Morris S6/Ep15: The Antifascism of Fools A Willingness to Abandon Our Older Trajectory S4/Ep20: Labor Theory of Apocalypse S6/Ep5: One Plus One Is Three S6/Ep16: The Boys Figure Out Which Marxist Tendency is Correct  S6/Ep19: To Front or Not to Front The Major Obstacles/Challenges We Face S3/Ep5: Happiness Industry Socialism S3/Ep17: Everything Is Recuperated  S5/Ep9: You're Not Making Liberals Socialist... S5/Ep19: The Dialectic of Degrowth Our Deep Skepticism/Hostility Toward Techno-Solutions S1/Ep31: The Future Has Been Canceled  S2/Ep2: Partially Automated Regular Communism S2/Ep5: Socialism Without Sacrifice...  S4/Ep4: No Ethical Technical Innovation Under Capitalism Looking Ahead S4/Ep11: Marxism in Dialogue With Christianity S5/Ep12: The Dialectic of Apotheosis   S5/Ep16: Bathing in the Warm Stream  S6/Ep22: Real Grouchy Old Man Hours Regrettable Reading List: The Red Jacobins: Thermidor & The Russian Revolution in 1921 Party As Articulator  The Tragedy of the Worker Revolution: An Intellectual History Left Wing Melancholia Excremental Happiness: From Neurotic Hedonism to Dialectical Pessimism Liquid Modernity The True and Only Heaven: Progress & Its Critics The Twittering Machine Hegel & The Hermetic Tradition Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here). Support the show Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop