294 Episodes

  1. The Future Has Been Canceled

    Published: 9/16/2019
  2. PATREON TEASER: The Red Jacobins and the Thermidor of 1921

    Published: 9/9/2019
  3. No One is Bored, Everything is Boring, Everyone is Anxious

    Published: 9/2/2019
  4. Dialectic of Defeat: A Collaboration with Red Library, Part II

    Published: 8/19/2019
  5. Dialectic of Defeat: A Collaboration with Red Library, Part I

    Published: 8/12/2019
  6. PATREON TEASER: Goodbye Lenin: Melancholic Thoughts

    Published: 8/2/2019
  7. The Children of the Counterrevolution

    Published: 7/30/2019
  8. The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out: Pessimisms and Optimisms of Intellect and Will

    Published: 7/15/2019
  9. Scattered Thoughts on Melancholia and the Organization of Pessimism

    Published: 6/24/2019
  10. Marxism & Religion & Everything Else & Religion, With C. Derick Varn

    Published: 6/10/2019
  11. PATREON TEASER: Many Roads To Socialism? The Early Comintern Debates On "Workers Governments"

    Published: 6/3/2019
  12. Neither Socialism From Above, Nor Below...but definitely Socialism

    Published: 5/27/2019
  13. A Time of Monsters #1: Towards a Working Definition of Fascism

    Published: 5/13/2019
  14. Zizek v. Peterson: The "Debate of the Century" that We Deserve

    Published: 4/29/2019
  15. Not With a Bang, But With a Purge, a Split, and a Public Statement: The Death of the Micro-Sect

    Published: 4/22/2019
  16. Changing the City, to Change Ourselves : A Discussion on the Right to the City

    Published: 4/3/2019
  17. The Open Road to the Stars: A Discussion With Donald Parkinson of Cosmonaut Magazine

    Published: 3/25/2019
  18. The People's Commissariat for Gettin' It On: Sexual Radicalism and Liberation Under 20th Century Socialism

    Published: 3/18/2019
  19. Lawyerization and Its Discontents: A Discussion on Marxist Jurisprudence with Steven from Supreme Leap Forward

    Published: 3/11/2019
  20. The Uses and Abuses of Identity Politics

    Published: 3/4/2019

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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