Diet Soap - a podcast

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  • Episode 675: Iran Still Under the Islamist Thumb

    Mani is a member of the Expansive Realist Workshop in Portland, Oregon, an Iranian ex-pat, and an MD. In this episode of the Diet Soap podcast, he discusses the attacks on Iran, the Islamic Republic, Christopher Hitchens, and his hopes for an emancipated Iran.  

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    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 674: The Anti-War Movement?

    Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain continue to discuss the war on Iran. How should the left respond to the war on Iran? What was revolutionary defeatism? Will there be a draft? Can the US avoid a ground war? 

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 673: Trump's Plan for Iran is Rational and Coherent

    Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss Trump's invasion of Iran as an example of bourgeois politics. Rather than condemning the invasion from the perspective of neoliberalism, they neither condemn nor support but describe. 

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    1 hr 16 min
  • Episode 672: How To React Without a Left?

    Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the likely effect of the attacks on Iran. Where will this go next? What motivated the Trump administration? Who will run Iran now? 

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    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 671: C Wright Mills & Sociology's Problem With Marx

    Join Spencer Leonard and Douglas Lain on "The Spencer Leonard Hour" as they engage in a systematic study of the history of sociology. They explore the intricate relation between sociological imagination and Marxist theory. This discussion offers a clear perspective on the economy through a socialist lens.

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    1 hr 24 min
  • Episode 670: Why Socialists Should LOVE America

    Chris Cutrone speaks out in defense of the American Revolution as vital to the struggle for socialism.

    Why Marxists loved America
    https://www.sublationmag.com/post/why-marxists-loved-america

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    1 hr 21 min
  • Episode 669: Try Being Civil?

    Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the question of civility in politics. What is the purpose of the principle of charity? Is civility a hindrance to politics? 

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    1 hr 19 min
  • Episode 668: Noam Chomsky’s reputation will never recover

    Ralph Leonard, freelance writer for Sublation Magazine and the New Statesman among other publications, joins Doug to discuss the career and reputation of Noam Chomsky and discuss his recent article on Chomsky that appeared in the New Statesman:

    Ralph Leonard on Chomsky in the New Statesmanhttps://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/02/noam-chomskys-reputation-will-never-recover-from-the-epstein-files

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    55 min
  • Episode 667: Is Trump Ushering In an AI Dystopia?

    Chris Cutrone discusses how Trump, Elon, International Capital, and Capital itself are ushering in a world littered with personal robots, self-driving cars, AI therapists, and other Kitsch Crap that could easily have been lifted from an old issue of Amazing Stories. 

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    58 min
  • Episode 666: Are You ALREADY Dead?

    Danny Mulligan and Douglas Lain discuss Ernest Becker, death anxiety, and modernity in this episode of the Diet Soap Podcast.

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    1 hr 13 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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