Chris Cutrone discusses Hegel and Marx's philosophical import. Does abstract labor time create a historical ontology? Does the working class need another chicken? 

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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. 

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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?

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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? 

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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? 

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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?

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Ashley Frawley explains fat acceptance and other popular trends in this week's Sublation Magazine Stream, and Doug is debriefed in the parrot room.

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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. 

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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.

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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 
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Douglas Lain receives a lesson on anarchism from Cyberdandy and Spencer Leonard in this special episode of Diet Soap. 

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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.

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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. 

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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. 
Should be hope that social media companies become the fully recognized property of the state, how concerned should we be about the war on disinformation, and how should socialists understand and relate to the Capitalist State? 

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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. 

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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. 

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Chris Cutrone returns with an essay entitled "The Alternative to Genocide" and a challenge to socialists. Can you avoid petite-bourgeois illusion? 

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Alex Hochuli joins Doug to discuss the upgraded Aufhebunga Bunga podcast, the death of the Millennial Left, and the situation in Gaza.

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Ashley and Doug discuss generational politics, the Capitalist University, students as a revolutionary class, and the concept of regression in this week's stream. 

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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.

The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War
 https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-cannot-make-use-of-the-gaza-war/

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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. 

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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." 

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Peter Coffin joins Douglas Lain to discuss his book "Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism" and the Breadtube controversy regarding plagiarism. 

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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. 

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.

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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." 

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

Too Late for Late Capitalism by Kyle Baasch
https://www.compactmag.com/article/too-late-for-late-capitalism/

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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? 

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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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss criticisms of the WPATH files and the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the TikTok ban). 

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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.

Essay "Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression" by Franklin Dmitryev
https://newsandletters.org/israels-war-and-hamas-attack-stoke-retrogression/

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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.

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. 

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Conrad Hamilton explores the anti-imperialist quasi Fascism in Dugin's thought and the history that shaped "Putin's Brain."

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Sean Sayers is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy from a Hegelian Marxist perspective. In April of 2020, he appeared on the Zero Books channel in order to discuss his criticism of GA Cohen, an analytic philosopher, and Marxist. Since then Steve Paxton, who is the author of Unlearning Marx (a book that came out in January of 2021 from Zero Books), has made it known through Twitter that he believes Sayer’s criticisms of Cohen has some flaws.

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David McKerracher from Theory Underground describes his book "TIMEENERGY: Why You Have No Time or Energy" and discusses left philosophy with Douglas Lain

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Chris Cutrone returns for another Cutronezone, this time to explain what it means to live through the highest stage of capitalism. 

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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.

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.

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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.

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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?" 

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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? 

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