299 Episodes

  1. No Royal Road -- The Feudal Revolution Debate (With C. Derick Varn)

    Published: 4/20/2022
  2. Patreon Preview: Victorious February (Lessons From The Czechoslovak Revolution)

    Published: 4/19/2022
  3. Marxism in Dialogue With Christianity

    Published: 4/6/2022
  4. Patreon Preview: The Left In Purgatory (I of II)

    Published: 3/28/2022
  5. The One Where We Talk About Everything That Is Wrong

    Published: 3/21/2022
  6. Neither "Neither Washington nor Moscow" nor Washington nor Moscow

    Published: 3/7/2022
  7. Patreon Preview: Weimar German Communism & National Bolshevism (Part II of II)

    Published: 2/27/2022
  8. No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part IV (With C. Derick Varn)

    Published: 2/23/2022
  9. The Death of the Left?

    Published: 2/7/2022
  10. The Farce of American Socialism: The American Socialist Movement, Part II

    Published: 1/26/2022
  11. Patreon Preview: Labriola's Socialism & Philosophy, Part II

    Published: 1/21/2022
  12. No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part III (With C. Derick Varn)

    Published: 1/12/2022
  13. PATREON PREVIEW: Chris and Neil Talk About Academia

    Published: 1/2/2022
  14. No Ethical Technological Innovation Under Capitalism

    Published: 12/28/2021
  15. The Tragedy of American Socialism: The American Socialist Movement (Part I)

    Published: 12/16/2021
  16. No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part II (With C. Derick Varn)

    Published: 11/30/2021
  17. Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution- With Neil from InForm Podcast

    Published: 11/10/2021
  18. Stakhanovites of Glorious Socialist Podcasting: Year Three of the Regrettable Century (Episode 100!)

    Published: 11/3/2021
  19. Patreon Preview: Labriola's Socialism & Philosophy, Part I

    Published: 10/20/2021
  20. No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part I (With C. Derick Varn)

    Published: 10/18/2021

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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