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Diet Soap - a podcast episodes
- Episode 715: Chris Cutrone on Socialism
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the question "What is Socialism?" following up after Lain's participation in a Platypus panel discussion of the question in Portland, Oregon.
Platypus Panel 10/18/26
https://youtu.be/2PCH5LURgyw?si=7F0nfahYGvcEPqyi
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 9 min - Episode 714: The Postcolonial Volk
Benjamin Zachariah discusses his book "The Postcolonial Volk" with Douglas Lain in the latest Diet Soap podcast. How did the struggle against Eurocentrism become racist in its own right?
The Postcolonial Volk is available through Polity
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-postcolonial-volk--9781509562633
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 12 min - Episode 713: Spencer Leonard on Liberalism and Equality
Spencer Leonard discusses how the idea of equality has regressed during the Industrial revolution. Why is the left dysfunctional and conservative?1 hr 14 min - Episode 712: Thomas Jefferson was a HERO!
Chris Cutrone discusses Thomas Jefferson and his disappointment with the left.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 23 min - Episode 711: Ashley Says: We Must Become Gods
Ashley Frawley returns to discuss her major piece for Compact Magazine entitled: "We Must Become Gods."
Here's an excerpt from her essay:
"It was through Marxism that I encountered Prometheanism, and with it the exhilarating realization that both man and the world are unfinished projects. We could master nature and democratize abundance and freedom through technological innovation. And anyway, I thought, we were already doing it, even as the walls of our economic system pressed up against our ambitions."
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap52 min - Episode 710: Sublation, Platypus, the Campaign, and COMPACT???
In this episode of the Cutrone Zone, Chris discusses the four activities he's taken up as a left public intellectual over the past 20 years, and how they contribute to the project of socialism.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 12 min - Episode 709: Matt McManus on the Need for Utopia
Matt McManus discusses his essay in Jabobin magazine entitled "Utopia Is a Promise Worth Fighting For." This was a review of the short book "Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope" by David Albertson and Jason Blakely.
Utopia is a Promise?
https://jacobin.com/2026/08/books-utopia-more-meritocracy-communism
Utopia Manifesto
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300278088/utopia-for-our-century/
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap58 min - Episode 708: Have the Children Learned?
Chris Cutrone re-evaluates his time as a Marxist pedagogue and wonders what went wrong. He's still reeling from the death of the Millennial left.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 45 min - Episode 707: Lukacs , Formalism and the Avant Garde
Jörg Pohl is an actor in Germany and a director of politically progressive plays. In this interview for Avant Art, Pohl discusses Lukacs and his criticisms of expressionism.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 51 min - Episode 706: Socialism as Defined by a Billionaire and Vivek Chibber
Chris Cutrone joins Douglas Lain to reexamine the meaning of "socialism" and how the term is misunderstood today. They explore the difference between anti-capitalism and socialism.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 22 min
About Diet Soap - a podcast
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The Diet Soap podcast began in 2009 in response to the economic crisis of 2008. Since then it has gone through many transformations, including becoming the podcast for a critical theory imprint out of…
the UK.
Today the Diet Soap podcast is running under its original name for Sublation Media.
Sublation Media includes a book publishing effort for critical theory and left politics, a magazine that covers current events and theoretical issues, youtube videos on theory and politics, and finally the Diet Soap podcast. The podcast is where we continue to interrogate the left and each other while having a good time.
Today the Diet Soap podcast is running under its original name for Sublation Media.
Sublation Media includes a book publishing effort for critical theory and left politics, a magazine that covers current events and theoretical issues, youtube videos on theory and politics, and finally the Diet Soap podcast. The podcast is where we continue to interrogate the left and each other while having a good time.
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- Number 5: Episode 714: The Postcolonial Volk1 hr 12 min