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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by my co-author David McKerracher (Dave) of Theory Underground to celebrate the release of our new book, Post-Left Theory: Beyond Marxism, Anarchism, and Vibes. We preview some of our spiciest essays, challenging the sacred cows of the contemporary left, from Marxism and anarchism to wokeism, feminism, gender relations, and the limits of left-wing politics. We also reflect on our experience at TUCON and CanonFest, discuss the crisis of modern intellectual culture, and introduce Dave’s new philosophy trading card game, Canon: TCG, including my adventures collecting and trading rare Hegel, Freud, and Leo Strauss cards.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Cold Open: Previewing Our New Book

3:02 1Dime Radio Intro

4:00 Announcing Post-Left Theory

7:26 TUCON and CanonFest: Theory Beyond the Internet

9:00 Canon: TCG, Philosophy Cards, and the Hunt for Leo Strauss

13:18 Making Philosophy Fun and Family-Friendly

19:43 Why We Need to Think Beyond Left and Right

23:28 The Left’s Culture War Problem

29:28 The DSA, Wokeism, and the Health Fascism Controversy

37:11 Masculinity, Gender Norms, and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

41:20 The Forbidden Topics of Post-Left Theory

43:09 The Cornell Seven, Frat Culture, and the Sexual Revolution

47:45 Why Consent Alone Is Not Enough

51:19 The Gender War, Dating Culture, and the Red Pill

57:39 Inside Our Book: Marxism, Anarchism, and Our Spiciest Essays

1:03:59 Canon: TCG Kickstarter and the Future of the Game

1:06:09 Why You Should Read Post-Left Theory

GUEST:

David McKerracher (Dave), founder of Theory Underground, author of Timenergy, co-author of Post-Left Theory, and creator of Canon: TCG.

• Theory Underground: https://theoryunderground.com/
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• Theory Underground Substack: https://theoryunderground.substack.com/
• Canon: TCG Official Website: https://canontcg.com/
• TUCON 2026 / CanonFest: https://canontcg.com/canonfest
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A voice over for an essay I spent a lot of time on, originally published on my Substack: https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/nationalist-internationalism?r=2sschq&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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Timestamps for this Essay:

0:00 Nationalist internationalism

0:04 Nationalism's progressive role in history

2:28 Who's afraid of nationalism?

3:47 Do people still identify with the nation?

6:10 Patriotism versus nationalism

16:39 Anti-patriotism on the left

20:40 Oppressor nations versus oppressed nations

25:09 Ethnonationalism versus civic nationalism

29:56 Nationalism and democracy

34:33 National class consciousness

37:35 Do workers of the world have no homeland?

43:56 The only alternative to nationalism is more local tribalisms

50:01 There is no internationalist politics

1:00:22 Internationalism versus globalism

1:03:17 Am I a nationalist?

1:08:44 Conclusion: The Dialectic of Historical Progress

1:11:49 Footnotes / works cited

More stuff like this to come in my forthcoming book, Post-Left Theory: Beyond Marxism, Anarchism, and Vibes, written with David McKerracher of Theory Underground and out October 15, 2026. If you enjoyed this and want to read the many essays in the book that have never been made public, or you simply want to support my written work, I would be grateful if you checked it out.

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Haz Al-Din, Chairman of the American Communist Party and host of Infrared, a long-requested and highly controversial guest. We get into why Infrared broke with the American left, MAGA Communism and patriotic socialism, China and the limits of liberal democracy, what socialism with American characteristics could actually mean, the failures of Soviet socialism, markets vs. planning, and whether AI and cybernetics are pushing us toward a radically different economic system.

In the Patreon-exclusive Backroom, I press Haz harder on whether he is really a Marxist or closer to what I call a national-conservative socialist. We also get more personal about our shared Lebanese heritage and experiences growing up in Lebanese immigrant families, along with Islam, Christianity, socialism, culture, and the strange overlap between our backgrounds despite our political disagreements.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Backroom Preview: Is Haz Really a Marxist?

3:09 1Dime Radio Intro

4:07 Who Is Haz Al-Din and Why Is the ACP So Controversial?

14:01 MAGA Communism, Nationalism, and Conservatism

23:12 China, Liberal Democracy, and Party Dictatorship

27:41 Socialism With American Characteristics

35:07 What MAGA Communism Was Really About

43:24 Is Liberal Democracy Dying?

49:42 Is American Patriotism Dead?

55:53 The Lost Socialist History of America

1:03:19 The Soviet Union, Stalin, 

1:12:37 The American Communist Party, AI and Economic Planning 

1:19:27 “Actually Existing Socialism” and Marxism-Leninism debate 

1:27:52 

1:32:19 Markets vs. Planning

1:40:52 Do Markets Even Exist Anymore?

1:48:39 AI, Desire, and Cybernetics

1:51:55 Why I Finally Interviewed Haz

GUEST:

Haz Al-Din: Chairman of the American Communist Party and host of Infrared

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What you are about to listen to is a short essay I posted on Substack a while ago that was originally a speech that I presented at my friend Greg Guevara’s (the YouTuber known as Jreg) “Anti-Clanker” rally back in September. It was an event about critiques of AI, featuring other guest speakers such as YouTube creators Gokanaru, Art Chad, Duncan Clarke, Were in Hell, and Cricket Guest. I didn’t publish my speech because I had not launched my Substack yet, but I figured I might as well put this article out now before someone else writes something that says more or less the same thing (maybe someone already has, but alas). Enjoy!

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BONUS EPISODE: This conversation with Christian Parenti was originally released as a Patreon-exclusive episode of The Backroom, recorded well over a year ago. In light of recent disclosures and renewed scrutiny surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci, the origins of COVID-19, and U.S.-funded coronavirus research, many of the questions raised in this discussion have become newly relevant, which is why I think it is worth releasing publicly now.

In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Christian Parenti, professor of economics at John Jay College, contributor to Compact, author of books including Radical Hamilton, Tropic of Chaos, and Lockdown America, and son of the late Michael Parenti. Parenti argues that much of the left abandoned its traditional skepticism of state and corporate power during COVID, embracing lockdowns, censorship, vaccine mandates, and what he describes as “scientism.” We discuss school closures and class, the Canadian trucker convoy, Big Pharma and Big Tech, vaccine mandates and civil liberties, biodefense and gain-of-function research, the professional-managerial left, and why Parenti came out of the pandemic identifying as both a classical Marxist and a classical liberal.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Cold Open: How the Left Got COVID Wrong
2:21 1Dime Radio Intro
3:19 Why the Left Embraced Lockdowns
10:13 Fauci, the Lab-Leak Debate & COVID Incentives
15:25 “Weaponized Solidarity,” School Closures & Mandates
25:16 The Trucker Convoy, Censorship & the Populist Right
32:46 Biodefense, Gain-of-Function & Vaccine History
39:21 The PMC Left & the Politics of Respectability
44:49 Vaccines, Myocarditis & COVID Risk
53:52 Civil Liberties, Vaccine Passports & the Left’s Authoritarian Turn
57:37 Classical Marxism Meets Classical Liberalism

GUEST:

Christian Parenti
Professor of Economics at John Jay College, author of Radical Hamilton, Tropic of Chaos, and Lockdown America, and contributor to Compact.

Compact:
https://www.compactmag.com/contributor/christian-parenti/

John Jay College:
https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/christian-parenti

“How the Organized Left Got COVID Wrong, Learned to Love Lockdowns and Lost Its Mind: An Autopsy”:
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/31/left-covid-lockdowns-mind-autopsy/

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In The Backroom, we discuss the topic of dating, Socialism & civilization, and debate whether libertarian socialism can scale.

In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Daniel from the YouTube channel What Is Politics? to unpack what we call the “Lizard Left”: the use of egalitarian and left-wing language to reproduce hierarchy, status competition, and social control. We discuss wokeism and the Socialism Conference, the DSA and the “rebel priest class,” why the left struggles to connect with ordinary people, what socialism actually means beyond the Soviet legacy, whether socialism can scale, and what dating apps, social clubs, tribalism, civilization, birth rates, and immigration reveal about the deeper problem of rebuilding a viable left.

The second half of the conversation continues in the Patreon-exclusive Backroom.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Woke 2.0 & The Socialism Conference (The Backroom Preview)

05:29 Daniel Returns

08:52 The Lizard Left

16:55 The Socialism Conference & “Fitness Is Fascism?”

30:34 The Rebel Priest Class & the Working Class

38:17 Feminism, Immigration & “Actually Existing” Ideology

43:17 What Is Socialism? Markets, Democracy & the Soviet Legacy

49:08 The Two Lefts & Culture War

55:03 Woke Resentment, the PMC & Lumpenization

1:07:14 Socialist Dating Apps, Social Media & Nonprofit Alternatives

1:11:02 Rebuilding Socialist Social Clubs

1:21:06 Tribalism, Hunter-Gatherers & Human Nature

1:25:01 Democracy, Socialism & Civilization

1:35:04 Egalitarianism, Difference & Group Conflict

1:39:23 Birth Rates, Immigration & Civilizational Decline

1:51:29 The Conversation Continues in the Backroom

The Backroom

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Daniel / What Is Politics?

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This is an older bonus episode originally released exclusively in The Backroom. I’m releasing it publicly in part as a reminder of the kind of longer, less filtered conversations Patreon supporters get access to.

In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by political theorist Benjamin Studebaker to revisit the idea of the “neo-left” and ask whether Pedro Sánchez and Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party represent an alternative to neoliberalism or a left-wing way of administering it. We discuss immigration and labor power, borders and imperialism, the constraints imposed by the European Union, Spain’s tourism and property-driven growth, and why the Spanish model may not be the blueprint for the left that some imagine it to be.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Preview: Immigration, Borders & Imperialism
3:02 Intro
4:02 What Is the “Neo-Left”?
14:50 Migration Policy
22:24 Immigration & Imperialism
35:13 Nation-States vs. Globalization
44:19 Spain’s “Success” Story
49:22 Sánchez and the EU Fiscal Rules
58:21 Why Spain Isn’t a Blueprint
65:19 Property, Demographics & Migration

GUEST:
Benjamin Studebaker — Political theorist and author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

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• Political Theory 101: https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-studebaker

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This is a voice-over of an Essay I published on Substack, which will be part of my Post-Left Theory book with Dave McKarikker of Theory Underground coming out this October.

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In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Peter Ryan, founder of Ryan Research, to recover a forgotten tradition of political economy that refuses the usual choice between Marxism and free-market liberalism. We contrast Karl Marx with Friedrich List and Matthew and Henry Carey, trace economic nationalism from the American System to MMT and Ha-Joon Chang, and ask whether national sovereignty, protectionism, and state capacity offer a more practical path to development and anti-imperialism.

In The Backroom, the Patreon-exclusive segment, we expand this conversation across three additional episodes with Peter Ryan. We discuss nationalist internationalism and Arnold Toynbee’s theory of civilizational cycles; Henry Carey, rentierism, Marxism, and the Irish struggle for national liberation; and, in a nearly three-hour finale, the post-left/post-right convergence, the moral limits of markets, immigration, industrial policy, class coalitions, empire, and whether any populist project can escape establishment capture.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Backroom Preview: Nationalism Against Imperialism

3:52 1Dime Radio Intro

4:50 Peter Ryan and the Forgotten Economic Tradition

15:07 Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List

22:57 MMT and the Forgotten History of Monetary Sovereignty

34:05 Beyond Libertarianism: Why State Capacity Matters

46:43 Who Controls the State?

57:02 Friedrich List and the Carey School

1:07:26 War, Industry, and America’s Protectionist Turn

1:15:50 Matthew and Henry Carey

1:27:27 Henry Carey, Lincoln, and Marx

1:34:06 Nationalist Internationalism and The Backroom

GUEST:

Peter Ryan is the founder of Ryan Research, where he writes and consults on economics, history, technology, and business strategy. His work has appeared in Compact, UnHerd, Gript, and other publications.

* Ryan Research YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRArvBl7O7AuQFtTTKaUCw

* Ryan Research Substack: https://ryanresearch.substack.com/

* Ryan Research website: https://www.ryanresearch.co/

* Our previous conversation, “Critiquing Left and Right”: https://ryanresearch.substack.com/p/critiquing-left-and-right-tony-chamas

BOOKS DISCUSSED:

* Roman Szporluk, Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List

https://books.google.com/books?id=8BfoCwAAQBAJ

* Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/lloyd-the-national-system-of-political-economy

* Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

https://anthempress.com/books/kicking-away-the-ladder-pb

* Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

https://hajoonchang.net/writings

PETER RYAN ON THE CAREY SCHOOL:

* “The Carey Project Launch”

https://ryanresearch.substack.com/p/the-carey-project-launch-partnered

* “Rent Is a Symptom, Not the Disease: A Careyist Review of Economic Rents”

https://ryanresearch.substack.com/p/rent-is-a-symptom-not-the-disease

RELATED ESSAY:

* “Nationalist Internationalism: The Case for Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State”

https://1dimereview.substack.com/p/nationalist-internationalism

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This episode is an ElevenLabs voice-over of “The American Revolution: A Revolution Unfinished,” an essay I originally published on the Fourth of July on my Substack, 1Dime Review.

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In this essay, I examine the contradictory legacy of 1776 and argue that the American Revolution was both a genuinely radical democratic transformation and a project complicit in slavery, racial domination, and Native dispossession. Rather than abandoning the language of liberty and popular sovereignty to the right, I argue that the left should reclaim the unfinished democratic tradition running from Paine and Jefferson through abolition, labor, and civil rights, and complete the promises that America’s managed political system was designed to contain.

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Timestamps:
0:00 The American Revolution: A Revolution Unfinished
0:12 Should We Reclaim the Legacy of 1776?
3:29 A Contradictory Legacy: Neither Saints nor Villains
13:00 Why Claim the Revolution?
27:06 The Unfinished Revolution
31:13 Footnotes/Citations

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