Diet Soap - a podcast

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  • 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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    54 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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    1 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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    1 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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    1 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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    1 hr 15 min
  • Episode 700: Wagner the Revolutionary

    Jim Igor, aka The Perfect Wagnerite, discusses the contradictions and revolutionary potential of Wagner's operas. He argues that Wagner represents both the ambition towards freedom and the self-defeat of the bourgeois revolution. 

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    1 hr 25 min
  • Episode 699: The New DSA and the Death of the Left

    In this CutroneZone, the Last Marxist evaluates the political significance of the rise of the DSA candidates in the Democratic Party. What does this mean for the left at it's future? 

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    1 hr 20 min
  • Episode 698: What if Reality is Real?

    Christopher Norris discusses his contribution to the 2007 collection "Adventures in Realism" entitled "Realism and Anti-Realism in Contemporary Philosophy: What's Truth Got to Do With It?" 
    Rather than rehearse the philosophical arguments in the paper, Doug discusses the political import of analytic philosophy and realism. 

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    1 hr
  • Episode 697: Chris Cutrone on the MOU

    In this episode of the CutroneZone, everyone's favorite contrarian discusses the meaning of the MOU, Israel's future decline, and the contemporary moment of post-neoliberalism. 

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    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 696: Fatal Friends: Did The US Eat Europe?

    Werner Rügemer discusses his book "Fatal Friendship: First Phase: From World War I to II." 

    From the book jacket: 
    Rising US capitalism presented itself to the world with freedom, democracy, and prosperity. However, the practices of America First-genocide, labor exploitation, and warlike plunder of foreign property-were merely modernized.

    The First World War became the first major global business venture, making allies dependent. After the war, US corporations invested in Western Europe. Mussolini was showered with loans. US corporations supplied Franco and equipped the German Wehrmacht for a war against Russia.

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    1 hr 4 min

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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…

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