The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the situation in Israel and Gaza, explains his own controversial understanding of what's necessary for the emancipation of the Palestinians, and discusses what he calls "reformism with bombs." 

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Fakhry Al-Serdawi is a Palestinian writer contributing to the Palestinian publication "Arab48" and to the Lebanese publication "Al-Akhbar." In this episode of Diet Soap, Fakhry and Doug discuss how Orientalism informs today's woke politics.

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Chris Cutrone discusses Leszek Kolakowski's essay "The Concept of the Left":
From the essay: The Left--and this is its unchangeable and indispensible quality, though by no means its only one--is a movement of negation toward the existing world. For this very reason it is, as we have seen, a constructive force. It is, simply, a quest for change. 

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Derrick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss Horkheimer's book "The Eclipse of Reason," the technocracy, and the question of the PMC in this month's edition of Pop the Left!

Chris Cutrone looks back at the Obama years as the audiobook version of his book "The Death of the Millennial Left" hits the virtual shelves at the Sublation Media website:

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Susanna Kleeman, author of the novel Twice, returns to the channel to discuss Jean Baudrillard and her upcoming book Fatal Dating Tips: Pratical Advice on How to Find Real Love in an Unreal World.

Fatal Dates with Susanna Kleeman
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Nadine Strossen is a leading expert in constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights. She is the immediate past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), the first woman to head the nation’s largest and oldest civil liberties organization. Her 2018 book, "HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship," has earned praise from ideologically diverse experts, including progressive Harvard University Professor Cornel West. Her upcoming book, "Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know" is due out in October. 

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This week's Cutrone Zone takes up the claim that Marxism is a religion and Marx is the Pope. Can we demonstrate that Marx's thought and Marxsim are something more than noble lies told to prop up what is, ultimately, an absurd existence? 

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In his new book "The Political Right and Equality" McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen. In this episode of Diet Soap McManus discusses his book with Douglas Lain.

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Douglas Lain and Freddie deBoer discuss his new book "How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement."  They explore why left movements fail. In the digital age, social movements flare up but then lose steam through a lack of tangible goals, the inherent moderating effects of our established institutions and political parties, and the lack of any real grassroots movement in contemporary America.

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