Common Ruin

Common Ruin

By Michael AcuñaSociety & CulturePhilosophy
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Common Ruin episodes

  • Virtue in Athens and Jerusalem (with Dr. Kevin Vost)

    Episode 4.

    Prolific author, doctor of psychology, and Thomist philosopher Kevin Vost joins Michael Acuña to discuss themes from Vost's 2016 work The Porch and the Cross: Ancient Stoic Wisdom for Modern Christian Living.


    *DISCLAIMER: The views of host do not necessarily reflect those of the guest. 

    Music by Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio

    58 min
  • Crisis Theory, Breakdown, and the Prospects for Communism (with Ted Reese)

    Episode 3.

    Michael Acuña is joined by Marxist analyst and Henryk Grossman scholar Ted Reese to discuss Karl Marx's crisis theory, the empirical status of Grossman's systemic breakdown theory, and the prospects for communist reconstruction of society. Ted Reese's writings can be found on Medium, and his Twitter profile is @Grossmanite 



    *DISCLAIMER: The views of host do not necessarily reflect those of the guest.

    Music by Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio

    1 hr 12 min
  • Omnia sunt communia: Christianity and Marxism in The Philosophy of Liberation (with Filip S.)

    Episode 2.

    Michael Acuña and Filip S. use Enrique Dussel’s The Philosophy of Liberation as a basis for a broader discussion on Christianity's relationship to Marxism and communism, idolatry and fetishism, the postmodern crisis of meaning, virtue ethics, and revolutionary pessimism.


    *DISCLAIMER: The views of host do not necessarily reflect those of the guest. 

    Music by Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio

    1 hr 13 min
  • Nation and Working-Class (with Filip S.)

    Episode 1. Common Ruin's inaugural podcast.

    Filip S. joins host Michael Acuña to discuss the obscure (and underappreciated) short text “Nation and Working-Class” by controversial German council communists Fritz Wolffheim and Heinrich Laufenberg. Among the subjects covered are theories of identity and subjectivity, the National Question, and the history of communist politics during the Weimar period. 



    *DISCLAIMER: The views of host do not necessarily reflect those of the guest.

    Music by Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio

    1 hr 47 min

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Dialectical ruminations on Marxist political economy, Greco-Roman philosophy, and radical theology.