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- 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 - Episode 705: Ralph Leonard on birthright citizenship
Ralph Leonard joins Douglas Lain to discuss Ralph's recent essay for Compact entitled:
"When Britain Ended Birthright Citizenship"
Link to Compact:
"When Britain Ended Birthright Citizenship" by Ralph Leonard
https://www.compactmag.com/article/when-britain-ended-birthright-citizenship/
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap54 min - Episode 704: What Can We Learn From the Soviet Avant-Garde?
Jörg Pohl is an actor and director living in Germany. He has been a member of the Thalia Theatre ensemble since 2009, and in this episode of Avant Art, he leads a discussion on the work of the Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 37 min - Episode 703: Adorno on Class Politics and Late Capitalism
In this episode of the Cutrone Zone, Chris takes on the pedagogical task of reassessing what class politics are, what they were, and what they might be. He recapitulates two essays by Theodor Adorno:
Imaginative Excesses:
https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/readings/adorno_imaginativeexcesses.pdf
Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1968/late-capitalism.htm
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 48 min - Episode 702: Why Has Elite Theory Captured the Left?
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss Cutrone's essay: "Was Lenin PMC?"
In this podcast, they discuss how James Burnham's work on the managerial revolution and his conservatism infected and directed left discourse.
Was Lenin PMC? by Chris Cutrone
https://www.sublationmag.com/post/was-lenin-pmc-how-elite-theory-doesn-t-fit-the-movement-for-socialism
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 13 min - Episode 701: Spencer Leonard on the Jacobins
In this episode of the Spencer Leonard Hour, the professor of Marxism discusses why commies prefer the French Revolution to the American Revolution.
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https://patreon.com/dietsoap1 hr 15 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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