Diet Soap - a podcast (Douglas Lain)
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| 08 Jun 2023 | Episode 479: Jacob Siegel on his Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century | 00:44:13 | |
Jacob Siegel is a senior editor at Tablet Magazine and a freelance journalist who has published at Vice, the Daily Beast, and the co-host of the podcast Manifesto! He is the author of A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century, an essay which connects the dots regarding the war on disinformation, Russiagate, and the War on Terror. | |||
| 12 Jun 2023 | Episode 480: Posadism Confirmed as the Final Marxist Tendency | 01:00:27 | |
Ashley and Doug discuss David Grusch's recent revelation that the US Government has been hiding downed UFOs for decades, that Apple used alien technology to create the new Vision Pro, and that Posadism is the one true Marxist tendency. | |||
| 14 Jun 2023 | Episode 481: Chris Cutrone on How Capitalism Distorts Us | 01:14:37 | |
Chris Cutrone's first book, "The Death of the Millennial Left" is out from Sublation and available now. The pre-orders have shipped. In this episode of the CutroneZone he discusses our contemporary moment from multiple levels. What is happening to anarchists, the Marxists, the social democrats, and the rest of the left in this post-covid, proxy-war, UFO ridden moment? | |||
| 21 Jun 2023 | Episode 482: Is Society Deplorable? | 01:20:05 | |
James M Vaughn is a history professor at the University of Chicago, a Marxist, and the author of the essay "The bourgeois revolution(s) and the American Revolution." In this interview Vaughn explains how civil society emerged from feudalism, how socialists originally conceived of the role of the State, and why it is that Marxists should defend the bill of rights. | |||
| 29 Jun 2023 | Episode 483: The Poverty of Anti-Imperialism | 00:49:59 | |
Djene Rhys Bajalan joins Doug to discuss Djene's recent essay in Compact entitled: "The Poverty of Anti-Imperialism." The discuss who is at fault for the crisis in Ukraine, the domestic consequence of US Imperialism, and the prospects for socialism. | |||
| 30 Jun 2023 | Episode 484: What Went Wrong with Marxism? | 01:31:21 | |
Chris Cutrone in the CutroneZone discusses his 2012 essay "A Century of Marxism" while also covering topics such as the coming constitutional crisis, RFK Jr's jacked bod, and Biden's athleticism. | |||
| 04 Jul 2023 | Episode 485: Capitalist Realism: Now More Than Ever | 01:03:39 | |
James Smith's recent essay in Sublation Magazine "Capitalist Realism All Over Again" was very popular at Sublation Magazine. It begins with these lines: | |||
| 06 Jul 2023 | Episode 486: Capitalism, Coronavirus and War | 00:49:08 | |
Radhika Desai is Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group. | |||
| 12 Jul 2023 | Episode 487: Should Cornel West Join the Democrats | 00:52:39 | |
Ben Burgis discusses his essay for Jacobin "Cornel West Should Challenge Biden in the Democratic Primaries" with Douglas Lain in this episode of Diet Soap. | |||
| 20 Jul 2023 | Episode 488: Marcuse, Heidegger and Repressive Tolerance | 00:36:11 | |
CyberDandy is a youtuber and anarchist and in this video he discusses Marcuse's Heideggerian origins, the concept of Repressive Tolerance, and how to create a radical or revolutionary subjectivity. | |||
| 25 Jul 2023 | Episode 489: What did RFK Jr REALLY Say About the Jews? | 00:55:18 | |
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain evaluate the allegation that RFK Jr. is anti-semitic and attempt to determine why even smart people can find racist conspiracy theories to be attractive and compelling. | |||
| 26 Jul 2023 | Episode 490: Derick Varn returns and Pops the Left | 00:55:54 | |
Doug and Derick discuss Lukacs in the latest episode of Pop the Left. Can we escape reificiation? Will the left recover from the latest attempt at social democracy? Where do we go from here? | |||
| 28 Jul 2023 | Episode 491: Was Lenin a Liberal? | 01:14:16 | |
Chris Cutrone, author of "The Death of the Millennial Left," former president of the Platypus Affiliated Society, professor of critical theory and art, continues to reign in the CUTRONEZONE. Enjoy! | |||
| 02 Aug 2023 | Episode 492: Who Was the Marxist Robert Kurz? (ft. Nick Gruber) | 00:57:54 | |
Robert Kurz was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist and editor of the journal Exit! He was one of Germany's most prominent theorists of value criticism. Nick Gruber joins Douglas Lain to discuss Kurz's legacy. | |||
| 09 Aug 2023 | Episode 493: The Chronic Crisis Called America | 00:52:47 | |
Benjamin Studebaker's book "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if they promise to solve economic problems, they are likely to disappoint voters. Instead, they encourage voters to blame each other. | |||
| 14 Aug 2023 | Episode 494: Chris Cutrone: Is Capitalism Pregnant with Socialism? | 01:22:23 | |
Chris Cutrone's "Cutronezone" featuring a conversation about his 2018 essay "The future of socialism: What kind of illness is capitalism?" | |||
| 23 Aug 2023 | Episode 495: How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement (ft Freddie deBoer) | 00:49:02 | |
Douglas Lain and Freddie deBoer discuss his new book "How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement." They explore why left movements fail. In the digital age, social movements flare up but then lose steam through a lack of tangible goals, the inherent moderating effects of our established institutions and political parties, and the lack of any real grassroots movement in contemporary America. | |||
| 30 Aug 2023 | Episode 496: The Political Right and Equality (ft. Matt McManus) | 00:48:29 | |
In his new book "The Political Right and Equality" McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen. In this episode of Diet Soap McManus discusses his book with Douglas Lain. | |||
| 01 Sep 2023 | Episode 497: Is Marxism a Religion? | 01:05:28 | |
This week's Cutrone Zone takes up the claim that Marxism is a religion and Marx is the Pope. Can we demonstrate that Marx's thought and Marxsim are something more than noble lies told to prop up what is, ultimately, an absurd existence? | |||
| 06 Sep 2023 | Episode 498: Nadine Strossen Talks to Marxists | 01:09:12 | |
Nadine Strossen is a leading expert in constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights. She is the immediate past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), the first woman to head the nation’s largest and oldest civil liberties organization. Her 2018 book, "HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship," has earned praise from ideologically diverse experts, including progressive Harvard University Professor Cornel West. Her upcoming book, "Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know" is due out in October. | |||
| 15 Sep 2023 | Episode 499: Jean Baudrillard as Dating Coach? | 01:06:24 | |
Susanna Kleeman, author of the novel Twice, returns to the channel to discuss Jean Baudrillard and her upcoming book Fatal Dating Tips: Pratical Advice on How to Find Real Love in an Unreal World. | |||
| 16 Sep 2023 | Episode 500: Obama Reconsidered as the Age of Trump Continues... | 01:03:25 | |
Chris Cutrone looks back at the Obama years as the audiobook version of his book "The Death of the Millennial Left" hits the virtual shelves at the Sublation Media website: | |||
| 27 Sep 2023 | Episode 501: The Left Lost its Reason? | 01:15:28 | |
Derrick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss Horkheimer's book "The Eclipse of Reason," the technocracy, and the question of the PMC in this month's edition of Pop the Left! | |||
| 29 Sep 2023 | Episode 502: What was the Concept of the Left? | 01:35:58 | |
Chris Cutrone discusses Leszek Kolakowski's essay "The Concept of the Left": | |||
| 05 Oct 2023 | Episode 503: Are We All Terrorists Today? | 00:47:56 | |
Fakhry Al-Serdawi is a Palestinian writer contributing to the Palestinian publication "Arab48" and to the Lebanese publication "Al-Akhbar." In this episode of Diet Soap, Fakhry and Doug discuss how Orientalism informs today's woke politics. | |||
| 13 Oct 2023 | Episode 504: The Left, Hamas, and Socialism | 01:15:12 | |
The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the situation in Israel and Gaza, explains his own controversial understanding of what's necessary for the emancipation of the Palestinians, and discusses what he calls "reformism with bombs." | |||
| 19 Oct 2023 | Episode 505: The Hyperreality of Terrorism (and why we love it) | 00:58:54 | |
Susanna Kleeman, author of the novel Twice and the upcoming Baudrillardian self-help book: Fatal Dating Tips discusses Baurdillard, Debord, terrorism and hostage taking on this week's Diet Soap podcast. | |||
| 26 Oct 2023 | Episode 506: A Plan to End the Occupation of Palestine (ft. Arturo Desimone) | 00:51:58 | |
Artist, journalist, and political activist Arturo Desimone explains the Diem 25's discarded plan to end the occupation of Palestine. | |||
| 27 Oct 2023 | Episode 507: Palestine and the Miseducation of Rashida Tlaib | 01:09:36 | |
Chris Cutrone addresses his critics and returns to the need to develop a socialist politics as opposed to a ethno-nationalist Wilsonian utopian politics in the Cutrone Zone. | |||
| 09 Nov 2023 | Episode 508: Aleksandr Dugin Fights for the Oppressed? | 01:13:55 | |
Resident Stalinist Conrad Hamilton argues that, as bad as Dugin is, he nonetheless is objectively struggling against Western Imperialism. | |||
| 10 Nov 2023 | Episode 509: Has the Left Rediscovered its Purpose? | 01:28:10 | |
Chris Cutrone, author of "The Death of the Millennial Left," discusses the left's embrace of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as the new center of its political project. | |||
| 18 Nov 2023 | Episode 510: How the Left Rejects the Possibility of Change | 01:23:31 | |
Chris Cutrone discusses the current political moment with Douglas Lain. Topics include dialectics, the superiority of Brave New World to 1984, the Palestinian struggle, and why it is that Doug let's Chris get away with murder. | |||
| 23 Nov 2023 | Episode 511: Embracing the Disease Called Freedom (with Slavoj Zizek) | 01:18:23 | |
This interview with Slavoj Zizek was meant to be the moment when the channel stopped obsessing about the brutal bombings on Gaza and the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine and returned to theory. This was not to be. Zizek had a lot on his mind regarding the allegations of anti-semitism that he faced, the strange embrace of Hamas in some quarters of the left, and the need to think during a time of crisis. | |||
| 01 Dec 2023 | Episode 512: Putting Javier Milei in Historical Context (ft. Arturo Desimone) | 00:38:52 | |
Arturo Desimone is an Aruban-Argentine writer, poet and visual artist. In this interview he explains the history of Peronism and the meaning of Javier Milei. | |||
| 08 Dec 2023 | Episode 513: Anarchism vs. Marxism (ft. Cyber Dandy and Ben Burgis) | 00:59:15 | |
Ben Burgis and Cyber Dandy join Doug for a conversation about Proudhon and Mars. What was Marx's critique of Proudhon? Why did anarchism and Marxism split? Who is the last Marxist? | |||
| 09 Dec 2023 | Episode 514: Is the Millennial Left to Blame for the State of the World? | 00:59:32 | |
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the impact and importance of the Death of the Millennial left. Along the way they also discuss the true meaning of Thanksgiving. | |||
| 13 Dec 2023 | Episode 515: Israel: A settler-colonial state? A clarification | 00:48:40 | |
Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer on international politics, religion, culture, and humanism. His recent essay for Sublation Magazine explains why it is accurate to refer to Israel as a Settler Colonial State, and why doing so explains less than it appears to explains. | |||
| 20 Dec 2023 | Episode 516: The Zionist Case for Ending U.S. Aid to Israel (ft. Jacob Siegel) | 00:59:36 | |
Jacob Siegel is a Senior Editor at Tablet magazine, a fiction writer, and veteran. He is also a committed Zionist and critic of US policy both domestically and internationally. | |||
| 22 Dec 2023 | Episode 517: Modern Art as the Art of Freedom | 01:58:43 | |
Chris Cutrone walks Doug through the history of bourgeois art from Eugène Delacroix to Eduard Manet. | |||
| 01 Jan 2024 | Episode 518: The Israel/Palestine Conflict and Opportunities for the Left | 01:03:05 | |
James A Smith, co-host of the Popular Show, debates Douglas Lain about the Israel/Palestine conflict and the the opportunity it presents for the international left. | |||
| 08 Jan 2024 | Episode 519: Critique of the Anarchist Dialectic (ft. Spencer Leonard) | 01:07:18 | |
Spencer Leonard follows up on the recent discussion of Proudhon that featured Ben Burgis, Cyber Dandy, and Douglas Lain. What was Marx's critique of Proudhon's dialectic? What can the left still learn from Proudhon. | |||
| 12 Jan 2024 | Episode 520: Understanding Western Maoism (ft. Chris Cutrone) | 01:15:47 | |
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss how Maoism came to define the ideology of the American left as the Cutronezone returns in 2024. | |||
| 19 Jan 2024 | Episode 521: How WOKE IDEOLOGY is replacing INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY | 00:33:48 | |
Jack Ross is author of "The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History" with Nebraska Press and "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," a book that is coming soon from Sublation. | |||
| 24 Jan 2024 | Episode 522: Learn the ZIZEK EQUATION that Explains FAKE NEWS | 00:31:44 | |
David Shield's is the author of the upcoming book "How We Got Here" along with dozens of other bestselling books such as "Reality Hunger" and "The Thing About Life is One Day You'll Be Dead." In this episode of Diet Soap Douglas Lain uses the Black Mirror Episode "Joan is Awful" as an example that helps to explain the ideas in David Shield's' book. | |||
| 26 Jan 2024 | Episode 523: Is DAVOS Socialist? | 01:18:48 | |
Chris Cutrone discusses the rational kernel in Javier Milei's recent speech at DAVOS and explains how socialists should take up capitalism in order to transform it. | |||
| 31 Jan 2024 | Episode 524: Have YOU Evolved Into Your IDEOLOGY? | 00:50:09 | |
The Reverend John Milton Bunch drops in to teach Doug a lesson in science and to demonstrate that political activists and theorists need to believe the science. | |||
| 09 Feb 2024 | Episode 525: Why Regular Workers Should Rule | 01:05:04 | |
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the old Marxist idea of "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat" in this episode of the Cutrone Zone. Is it a scary phrase? Can we trust everyday people to self-govern? What is socialism anyhow? | |||
| 14 Feb 2024 | Episode 526: Putin vs. Biden (What Next for Ukraine?) | 01:08:26 | |
Douglas Lain and Reid Kane Kotlas discuss Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin and the revelations from Special Prosecutor Rober Hur's report on Biden's classified documents scandal. The question for this channel is "how should the left think through this moment of crisis for the democratic party?" | |||
| 22 Feb 2024 | Episode 527: What does Caleb Maupin Really Think? | 01:27:41 | |
In this week's Sublation Magazine Show Doug presents a pre-recorded conversation between Ashley Frawley and Caleb Maupin. In the second hour the patrons will join the conversation to discuss what was said. | |||
| 23 Feb 2024 | Episode 528: How Zizek and Columbo Can Help | 00:12:56 | |
David Shields's upcoming book "How We Got Here" explores how we've lost sight of the concept of the truth. It walks the reader through the history of Western Epistemology. This video offers up Columbo as one of remaining cultural icons that still stands for truth, even after the postmodern turn. | |||
| 26 Feb 2024 | Episode 529: Living In the Imperialist World | 01:12:48 | |
Chris Cutrone returns for another Cutronezone, this time to explain what it means to live through the highest stage of capitalism. | |||
| 29 Feb 2024 | Episode 530: Theory Underground and Learning from Heidegger, Marx, Hegel, & Zizek | 01:03:30 | |
David McKerracher from Theory Underground describes his book "TIMEENERGY: Why You Have No Time or Energy" and discusses left philosophy with Douglas Lain | |||
| 04 Mar 2024 | Episode 531: Debating Marx's Theory of History (ft Sean Sayers and Steve Paxton) | 01:03:37 | |
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| 07 Mar 2024 | Episode 532: Putin's Brain and the War in Ukraine | 01:12:01 | |
Conrad Hamilton explores the anti-imperialist quasi Fascism in Dugin's thought and the history that shaped "Putin's Brain." | |||
| 08 Mar 2024 | Episode 533: Trump, Presidents, and the American Revolution | 01:12:05 | |
The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the meaning of the American Revolution, Trump remaining on the ballot, the branches of government, and the meaning of socialism. | |||
| 12 Mar 2024 | Episode 534: Free To Be You And Me? | 01:16:40 | |
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss the struggle for civil liberties after the WPATH (World Professional Association of Transgender Health) document leak. How do we defend our civil rights and civil liberties even as we address the revelations that "gender affirming care" is more dangerous than previously believed and may amount to medical malpractice? This podcast features Meghan Murphy and Andrew Doyle as guests. | |||
| 15 Mar 2024 | Episode 535: A Human Solution for Palestine? | 00:51:09 | |
Ron Kelch and Urszula Wislanka are members of the Marxist Humanist group News and Letters. In this episode of Diet Soap they discuss Franklin Dmitryev's essay Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression. | |||
| 19 Mar 2024 | Episode 536: A TikTok Ban & Gender Affirming Care Reconsidered | 01:04:08 | |
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss criticisms of the WPATH files and the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the TikTok ban). | |||
| 20 Mar 2024 | Episode 537: Ukraine from Maidan to War | 00:46:39 | |
This interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko explores the fate of the left in Ukraine. Ishchenko was born in Ukraine in 1982. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jacobin and the New Left Review. His book "Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War" was published by Verso in February of 2024. | |||
| 28 Mar 2024 | Episode 538: The Failure of the European Left | 00:46:43 | |
Arturo Desimone writings on politics and culture has appeared in CounterPunch, Compact, openDemocracy, the Fortnightly Review, and Sublation Magazine. From 2018 to 2021 he was a co-founding member of the "Peace and International Policy" a subdivision of the "Democracy in Europe Movement" which concerned itself with the movement's critiques of EU foreign policy and security issues. In this episode of Diet Soap Arturo discusses the meaning of Yanis Varoufakis. | |||
| 29 Mar 2024 | Episode 539: Emergency Capitalism-Full Show from Rumble | 01:03:41 | |
Fabio Vighi joins the Sublation channel as we are publishing his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this new series Fabio will help viewers keep track of the underlying economic conditions that are shaping our world in a time of emergency. Given the nature of these conversations only the first half of these shows will be available on YouTube. This podcast version of the show includes the entire conversation. | |||
| 02 Apr 2024 | Episode 540: Fake News, Fake Left, War, Disease, Dogs and Cats Lying Together, Hysteria | 01:08:26 | |
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss how postmodernism lingers on in a political form, and how the remnants of the socialist left might find its way back to politics. Topics included: David Shields' documentary, the 2024 US election and Trump, the Strange Death of the American Creed, and can we feel good when things are this bad? | |||
| 04 Apr 2024 | Episode 541: Did Late Capitalism End Already? | 00:42:32 | |
Kyle Baasch is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Minnesota and the author of the essay “Too Late for ‘Late Capitalism’” for Compact Magazine. In this episode of Diet Soap we discuss how the idea of "Late Capitalism" has changed and perhaps been emptied out of content over time. | |||
| 05 Apr 2024 | Episode 542: Why Not Trump, Again? | 01:46:31 | |
Chris Cutrone discusses the third essay in his "Why Not Trump" series in the context of a US election wherein all sides are abandoning the constitutional order. Lawfare, the power of the executive, impeachments, and a many other topics are discussed in this episode of the Cutronezone. | |||
| 09 Apr 2024 | Episode 543: Responding to Midwestern Marxism's Anti-Frankfurt School Rant | 01:11:50 | |
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain respond to Midwestern Marxism's criticisms of the Frankfurt School and discuss Briahna Joy Gray's misstatements regarding the Twitter Files. | |||
| 11 Apr 2024 | Episode 544: Why Your Stalinism is a Mistake | 00:46:04 | |
Jack Ross, author of "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," discusses the ideas in his book with Ashley Frawley. Jack goes slowly through the history and his own influences and antecdents as he explains how he's dropped the idea that "before their can be a decent left we need a decent right" and has instead embraced the more pessimistic notion that we have to start by rebuilding the "concept of the left." | |||
| 12 Apr 2024 | Episode 545: Blackrock's Lockdown and the Conformist Left | 01:20:16 | |
Fabio Vighi joins the Malinformation channel as Sublation Media prepares to publish his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this episode Fabio critiques Slavoj Zizek's Capitalist Realism and describes how Blackrock is controlling and destroying the economy. | |||
| 24 Apr 2024 | Episode 546: Highlights After 15 Years: Ben Burgis's Appearance and Beyond | 01:17:29 | |
In this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug will discuss the 15 hour anniversary stream that we ran last week, tell you how you can still get access to the whole stream, and go over some of the highlights from those 15 hours including the argument Doug had with Ben Burgis. | |||
| 25 Apr 2024 | Episode 547: Breadtube and Woke/Anti-Woke Politics | 00:35:39 | |
Peter Coffin joins Douglas Lain to discuss his book "Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism" and the Breadtube controversy regarding plagiarism. | |||
| 26 Apr 2024 | Episode 548: Was Adorno a Leninist? | 01:39:17 | |
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay "Do We Need Adorno?" The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone's upcoming book "Marxism and Politics." | |||
| 01 May 2024 | Episode 549: The Left Can't Make Use of the Gaza War? | 00:55:36 | |
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss Benjamin Studebaker's essay for Sublation Magazine entitled "The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War" and Doug reads the opening remarks he gave at the Platypus panel "From Politics to Protest" last week. | |||
| 08 May 2024 | Episode 550: Students and the Capitalist University | 01:06:28 | |
Ashley and Doug discuss generational politics, the Capitalist University, students as a revolutionary class, and the concept of regression in this week's stream. | |||
| 09 May 2024 | Episode 551: The New Aufhebunga Bunga! | 00:43:25 | |
Alex Hochuli joins Doug to discuss the upgraded Aufhebunga Bunga podcast, the death of the Millennial Left, and the situation in Gaza. | |||
| 10 May 2024 | Episode 552: The Alternative to Genocide is Slavery | 01:37:41 | |
Chris Cutrone returns with an essay entitled "The Alternative to Genocide" and a challenge to socialists. Can you avoid petite-bourgeois illusion? | |||
| 15 May 2024 | Episode 553: Canada Rolls Out NEW AND IMPROVED CANCEL CULTURE | 01:02:57 | |
In this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug discuss the Canadian Online Harms Act, a new US presidential election poll, the Strange Death of American Exceptionalism, and the meaning (or lack of meaning) of the pro-Palestinian protests. | |||
| 17 May 2024 | Episode 554: Is Western Finance to Blame? | 01:13:56 | |
Fabio Vighi discusses his upcoming book "Emergency Capitalism" and explains how financial capitalism and productive capitalism can't be treated separately but must be understood as united. How the disintegration and irregulatiry in the financial sector is the result of a crisis stemming from production. | |||
| 23 May 2024 | Episode 555: Should We Love Big Brother? (featuring Ben Burgis) | 00:56:26 | |
Ben Burgis and Djene Bajalan join Douglas Lain to discuss the War on Disinformation, and to resolve an argument that broke out on the Diet Soap 15 hour anniversary livestream. | |||
| 24 May 2024 | Episode 556: A Response to "The Alternative to Genocide" Critics | 01:25:30 | |
Chris Cutrone returns to discuss the reaction to his essay "The Alternative to Genocide" and to discuss how and why leftists are, in reality, right-wing. | |||
| 28 May 2024 | Episode 557: The Teenager as a Product of Capitalism | 01:02:03 | |
Ashley and Doug discuss the history of the teenager and teenage culture before turning their attention to some current news stories regarding the #Twitterfiles and the origin of COVID 19. | |||
| 31 May 2024 | Episode 558: Was Bakunin RIGHT? (ft Spencer Leonard and Cyberdandy) | 01:00:36 | |
Douglas Lain receives a lesson on anarchism from Cyberdandy and Spencer Leonard in this special episode of Diet Soap. | |||
| 07 Jun 2024 | Episode 559: The Last Marxist weighs in on the Trump Vedict | 01:15:32 | |
This week's Cutrone Zone includes his interpretation of the Trump Verdict and how we should understand bourgeois law and the rights of the accused. | |||
| 11 Jun 2024 | Episode 560: MAGA Communism and the NEW Anti-Imperialism | 01:02:28 | |
Ashley and Doug discuss the new Stalinist/MAGA Communist anti-imperialism. Without condemnation or presuming that the anti-imperialists are acting in bad faith, but with the aim of understanding the ideological moment we are in, this stream will take a look at some clips from videos from Infrared, Caleb Maupin, and Peter Coffin. | |||
| 14 Jun 2024 | Episode 561: How the Wars are Propping Up Capitalism [RUMBLE AUDIO] | 01:28:06 | |
Fabio Vighi is the author of the upcoming book, "Emergency Capitalism," due out from Sublation Media later this year. In this episode he discusses how "geopolitical conflicts" are helping the financial sector manage the ongoing crisis known as capitalism. | |||
| 17 Jun 2024 | Episode 562: Postmodern Neo-Stalinism vs. Western Marxism | 00:26:30 | |
This critical cuts video is a critique of neo-Stalinism, a defense of Western Marxism, and a book review of "Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures," an art book from a post-modern art exhibition from the year 2000. | |||
| 21 Jun 2024 | Episode 563: Chris Cutrone: A Filmmaker at the Conventions | 01:41:06 | |
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss their plans to make a film about the 2024 Democratic and Republican party conventions. They discuss the film Medium Cool as an influence. | |||
| 25 Jun 2024 | Episode 564: Responding to the Swoletariat on Fat Acceptance | 01:02:04 | |
Ashley Frawley explains fat acceptance and other popular trends in this week's Sublation Magazine Stream, and Doug is debriefed in the parrot room. | |||
| 27 Jun 2024 | Episode 565: Degrowth "Communism" is Middle Class Anti-Politics | 00:43:35 | |
Leigh Phillips and Matt Huber join Douglas Lain to discuss their essay "Kohei Saito’s “Start From Scratch” Degrowth Communism." How has the ecology movement distorted Marx? Why is "degrowth" popular in a society that cannot avoid growth? What is the path to socialism? | |||
| 06 Jul 2024 | Episode 566: Is Politics Impossible if Everyone is a Narcissist? | 00:42:23 | |
Benjamin Studebaker discusses his essay for the Platypus Review entitled: "Beyond Bonapartism: Breaking statephobic thought taboos." Doug was triggered by his essay and attempts to counter the argument, to little effect. Is the subject of history dead along with the left? | |||
| 12 Jul 2024 | Episode 567: Cutrone Responds to Studebaker | 01:23:28 | |
In this episode of the Cutronezone, the last Marxist responds to Benjamin Studebaker's essay, "Beyond Bonapartism: Breaking statephobic thought taboos." Does Marxism's political theory hold water? | |||
| 23 Jul 2024 | Episode 568: Making Sense of the US Election | 00:50:53 | |
Douglas Lain and Ashley Frawley discuss the dysfunctional US Election. How are we to sort through this and decide? Could it all be a Psyop? | |||
| 26 Jul 2024 | Episode 569: Is Cutrone Coconut Pilled? | 01:16:10 | |
Chris Cutrone discusses the US election with Douglas Lain. Who is Kamala Harris? Is she Gen-X? Was Trump even shot? What is the deep state? | |||
| 01 Aug 2024 | Episode 570: Matt Taibbi, Herbert Marcuse, and the Need for a New Socialist Party | 00:47:27 | |
Benjamin Studebaker discusses an appearance he made on the Katie Halper show, Matt Taibbi's critique of Herbert Marcuse, and Sublation's new effort to set the table for a new socialist party. | |||
| 06 Aug 2024 | Episode 571: How Kamala's Coconuts Represent the Defeat of the Left | 00:58:27 | |
The defeat of the anti-imperialist Free Palestine Left and the rise of MAGA Communism is the topic for this week's Sublation Magazine Show. We will also discuss Benjamin Studebaker's "Critique of the Critique of the Administrative State." | |||
| 27 Aug 2024 | Episode 572: After the DNC - a debrief with Benjamin Studebaker | 01:08:00 | |
What should socialists understand about the 2024 election? Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss their experiences at the DNC, the upcoming documentary, and the possibility for socialism in 2025. | |||
| 30 Aug 2024 | Episode 573: Chris Cutrone's DNC DeBrief | 01:29:13 | |
Chris Cutrone discusses the meaning of the 2024 election and his feelings after attending the DNC. In the second half Doug and Chris continue to explore the Campaign for a New Socialist Party. | |||
| 04 Sep 2024 | Episode 574: Weird Politics in 2024 | 01:06:47 | |
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss what it means to be "weird" and what counts as "weird politics" in the US and around the world. | |||
| 05 Sep 2024 | Episode 575: Rethinking the 2024 Election | 00:42:04 | |
Chris Cutrone and Jack Ross join Douglas Lain to discuss the political realignment occurring through the 2024 election. Chris Cutrone is the author of Marxism and Politics, and Jack Ross is the author of The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism. | |||
| 06 Sep 2024 | Episode 576: Why Do the Capitalists NEED War? | 01:06:51 | |
Fabio Vighi discusses how the current proxy wars are being used by the capitalist class to prop up a dying capitalist world order. He also discusses how the Ukrainian conflict is decimating Europe rather than Russia. | |||
| 12 Sep 2024 | Episode 577: Debating Mask Mandates with Dr. Eric Feel So Good | 00:41:10 | |
Dr. Eric Osgood is a hospitalist and liberal advocate for the contemporary medical establishment on twitter. Doug debates the Cochrane study on mask mandates and the CASS review with the doctor in this episode of the Diet Soap podcast. | |||
| 13 Sep 2024 | Episode 578: Cutrone Adresses Doug's Zizekian Objection | 01:15:26 | |
Chris Cutrone discusses Hegel and Marx's philosophical import. Does abstract labor time create a historical ontology? Does the working class need another chicken? | |||