“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
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.
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Episodes
Wednesday Mar 11, 2026
Wednesday Mar 11, 2026
Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in the USA https://www.globalresearch.ca/colored-revolutions-a-new-form-of-regime-change-made-in-the-usa/27061
Can the West Still Engineer a ‘Color Revolution’? We’re About to Find Out https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/color-revolution-lukyanov/
Why a Decade of Protests Didn’t Lead to Revolution https://jacobin.com/2024/01/vincent-bevins-interview-mass-protests-2010s-arab-spring-euromaidan
New report unveils how CIA schemes color revolutions around the world https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290090.shtml
Nepal's color revolution: US funding under scrutiny amid country's political upheaval https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/09/17/755176/nepal-color-revolution-us-funding-under-scrutiny-amid-political-upheaval
How Color Revolution Was Born—and Died—in Serbia https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-color-revolution-was-born-and-died-in-serbia/
Protests in Kazakhstan: A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising? https://internationalviewpoint.org/Protests-in-Kazakhstan-A-Color-Revolution-or-a-Working-Class-Uprising
Inside the Syrian Revolution and what the Left must do https://internationalviewpoint.org/Inside-the-Syrian-Revolution-and-what-the-Left-must-do
Friday Mar 06, 2026
Friday Mar 06, 2026
The Epstein Alliance is at War With Iran... and its Not Going Well, Zelensky Threatens to Invade Hungary, Russian Casualty Figures are Inflated, Ukraine is Losing the War... Still
Wednesday Feb 25, 2026
Wednesday Feb 25, 2026
This week, the boys got together and discussed the perpetual battle between the digital Stalinists and the digital Third Campists. To what extent have those demonized as tankies been right or wrong? To what extent do any of these archaic political designations matter?
New Tankies and Digital Neo-Stalinism: How the Conservative Left is Incubated
https://europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article73701
Don’t Be a Tankie: How the Left Should Respond to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-russia-leftists-tankie/
What Is a Tankie-and Why You Don’t Want to Be One
https://medium.com/@ksutherland2727.ks/what-is-a-tankie-and-why-you-dont-want-to-be-one-0fb84611233a
Everything you ever wanted to know about tankies, but were afraid to ask
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-always-against-the-tanks#toc2
Why are ‘anti-imperialists’ defending dictators?
https://www.972mag.com/tankies-left-authoritarians-imperialism/
The ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Idiots
https://itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/
JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
https://www.joewrote.com/p/jfk-files-reveal-the-cia-role-in
Sunday Feb 22, 2026
Sunday Feb 22, 2026
Keep up with Burkina Faso, Trump is Killing Cuba, Iran is a Formidable Opponent, Iranian Dead Protester Psyop, Pedophile Country Provides Security for Epstein, Spook Dictators on the Rise in Ukraine, The Ukrainian Counteroffensive that Wasn't...
Wednesday Feb 18, 2026
Wednesday Feb 18, 2026
Finally, the long awaited return of 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang dives into chapters three and four. Catch up with us by joining the Discord.
From the publisher:
Liberal civilization is in crisis - now is a time of monsters.
While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic right-wing leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, defeating these people will not stem the tide behind them. They are the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling, Richard Seymour delves into the ideologies fueling the contemporary right and distorting modern politics into something abhorrent and nihilistic. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization.
Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
Wednesday Feb 11, 2026
This week, we returned to a discussion about a not very well-known article from an obscure Trotskyist journal written over a decade ago...
It generated a little bit of a buzz, but was mostly ignored. We think that was a mistake, and we are going to tell you all about why you should care about the decisions of the 10th Party Congress of the Russian Communist Party.
You won't want to miss this episode.
The Article in Question:
The Red Jacobins: Thermidor and the Russian Revolution in 1921
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
The Greenland Nothingburger, Regime Change in Iran Wouldn't be Quick or Easy, Epstein Was Mossad, Epstein in Ukraine, Ukraine's Internal and Military Collapse...
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Friday Feb 06, 2026
Friday Feb 06, 2026
The boys are back and are nearing the end of the book. Chapters 11 and 12 are where Dugin's animating principle of "Dasein" comes into conflict with his understanding of global geopolitics and the project of "Fourth Political Praxis."
Work Cited: Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media.
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Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
This is a repost of an episode from 2003, but with an added leadoff that we recorded recently.
This episode discusses a topic that bears constant revisiting: our pessimism (because of intellect) and our optimism (because of will). No, it's not just a doomer affectation that we can use to sound as cool as we look; it's a critical method of engaging with the bleak reality that faces us.
The only way out is through, but getting through is possible.
Revolutionary Pessimism: The Worst is Yet to Come
https://www.christiansocialism.com/2020/05/12/covid-peter-fleming-revolutionary-pessimism-capitalism/
Pessimism of the Will
https://viewpointmag.com/2020/05/28/pessimism-of-the-will/
CRITICAL PESSIMISM AND THE LIMITS OF TRADITIONAL MARXISM
https://www.jstor.org/stable/657342
For A Refresher:
The Proper Amount of Bumming People Out: Pessimisms and Optimisms of Intellect and Will
https://regrettablecentury.podbean.com/e/the-proper-amount-of-bumming-people-out-pessimisms-and-optimisms-of-intellect-and-will/
Scattered Thoughts on Melancholia and the Organization of Pessimism
https://regrettablecentury.podbean.com/e/scattered-thoughts-on-melancholia-and-the-organization-of-pessimism/
Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will
https://regrettablecentury.podbean.com/e/pessimism-of-the-intellect-pessimism-of-the-will/https://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/220523/889740-pessimism-of-the-intellect-pessimism-of-the-will
Music- Англия - Сказочный мир
Monday Jan 26, 2026
Monday Jan 26, 2026
This week, we get together to talk through a sort of brief overview of the era of the Pink Tide in Latin America and try to draw out some of the lessons and implications for the future of Socialism for the 21st Century...
What Happened to the Pink Tide?
https://jacobin.com/2016/07/pink-tide-latin-america-chavez-morales-capitalism-socialism/
The Rise and Fall of the Latin American Left
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-ebb-and-flow-of-latin-americas-pink-tide/
What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?
https://monthlyreview.org/2016/10/01/what-is-socialism-for-the-twenty-first-century/
21st Century Socialism: What It Will Become and Why?
https://ibw21.org/commentary/21st-century-socialism-what-it-will-become-and-why/