Dan Melo is the author of Borderlines and is currently working on a book on violence for Sublation Press. He is also a contrinbutor to Cosmonaut Magazine and the author of a recent essay entitled "Why Bordiga Got Democracy Wrong." In this episode of Diet Soap he discusses just what Bordiga's critique amounted to and describes what it's like to be ratioed by radical twitter.

Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Enjoying it Right and Left, which will be the first book from Sublation Press, which is the name of Diet Soap Media's book publishing wing. He is also the author of Emancipation After Hegel,  Capitalism and Desire, and Only a Joke Can Save Us.  He is also the co-host of the Why Theory Podcast.In this episode of the Diet Soap Interview series Todd discusses how the Superego functions politically.

This episode of Pop the Left features a debate between Conrad Hamilton and Chris Cutrone as they both attempt to judge the 20th century left and the contemporary left. Has there been any progress for the socialist struggle in the last 100 years? How are we to judge the contradictory "progress" brought on by industrialization and modernity?  Special feature: Doug turns into Stalin as he tries to get a word in edgewise.Support Diet Soap Media on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap

Ron and Urszula are members of News and Letters, a Marxist Humanist organization originally founded by Raya Dunayevskaya after a split with CLR James within The Correspondance Publishing Committee. In this interview Ron and Urszula explain what Marxist Humanism offers to workers in their struggle for socialism.

Chris Cutrone, a founding member of the Platypus Affiliated Society, returns in order to respond to a recent conversation with Conrad Hamilton about post-pandemic politics. Cutrone objects to Conrad's statism and to what he sees as the Millennial left's ultimate slide into a combination of Stalinism and Social Democracy. 

C Derick Varn returns/arrives on the Diet Soap Media channel to discuss anti-politics and the current malaise on the left. Formerly a co-host with Doug for Pop the Left when the podcast was on the Zero Books channel, Derick is now running his own show at the VarnVlog:

Conrad Hamilton is a member of Kapital Comrades, an author for Zer0 Books, and a member of the Aelita Collective. He joins Douglas Lain in this episode of the Diet Soap podcast to discuss post-pandemic politics and how the left should handle lockdowns, the State, and in order to collect an apology.Link to Manifestohttps://tripleampersand.org/state-covid-manifesto-pandemic-politics/

Michael Albert is the author of the book "No Bosses," which is forthcoming from the British imprint Zer0 Books. He is also the former editor of South End Press, the co-founder of Z-Magazine, and a friend of Noam Chomsky. This interview covers some of the ideas in his upcoming book.

Bulent Somay did his doctorate in science fiction at Montreal McGill University in 1982 and 1983, but returned to Istanbul without getting his doctorate. He earned a PhD in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2013. In this first interview on the new channel, Somay discusses his skepticism about left-wing populism.

In this conversation with Slavoj Zizek, Douglas Lain discusses how working in the gig economy as a floating freelancer without a contract is symptomatic of overall trends in capitalist culture. While Zizek reflects on his two volumes: Pandemic and Pandemic 2.