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Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Pan-African Journal - July 14, 2024 03:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Listen to the Sat. July 13, 2024 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our PANW report with dispatches on the attempted assassination of former United States President Donald Trump at a c...

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Episode 567: Cutrone Responds to Studebaker

Diet Soap - a podcast - July 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
In this episode of the Cutronezone, the last Marxist responds to Benjamin Studebaker's essay, "Beyond Bonapartism: Breaking statephobic thought taboos." Does Marxism's political theory hold water?  Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Pan-African Journal - July 06, 2024 23:30 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Listen to the Sat. July 6, 2024 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the growing efforts to remove President Joe Biden as head of the Democrati...

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Episode 566: Is Politics Impossible if Everyone is a Narcissist?

Diet Soap - a podcast - July 06, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Benjamin Studebaker discusses his essay for the Platypus Review entitled: "Beyond Bonapartism: Breaking statephobic thought taboos." Doug was triggered by his essay and attempts to counter the argument, to little effect. Is the subject of history dead along with the left?  Benjamin's E...

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Episode 565: Degrowth "Communism" is Middle Class Anti-Politics

Diet Soap - a podcast - June 27, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Leigh Phillips and Matt Huber join Douglas Lain to discuss their essay "Kohei Saito’s “Start From Scratch” Degrowth Communism."  How has the ecology movement distorted Marx? Why is "degrowth" popular in a society that cannot avoid growth? What is the path to socialism? Support Sublati...

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Episode 564: Responding to the Swoletariat on Fat Acceptance

Diet Soap - a podcast - June 25, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley explains fat acceptance and other popular trends in this week's Sublation Magazine Stream, and Doug is debriefed in the parrot room. Join Us for a Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/106858590 Support Sublation Media: https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 563: Chris Cutrone: A Filmmaker at the Conventions

Diet Soap - a podcast - June 21, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss their plans to make a film about the 2024 Democratic and Republican party conventions. They discuss the film Medium Cool as an influence.  Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 562: Postmodern Neo-Stalinism vs. Western Marxism

Diet Soap - a podcast - June 17, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
This critical cuts video is a critique of neo-Stalinism, a defense of Western Marxism, and a book review of "Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures," an art book from a post-modern art exhibition from the year 2000.

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Episode 561: How the Wars are Propping Up Capitalism [RUMBLE AUDIO]

Diet Soap - a podcast - June 14, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Fabio Vighi is the author of the upcoming book, "Emergency Capitalism," due out from Sublation Media later this year. In this episode he discusses how "geopolitical conflicts" are helping the financial sector manage the ongoing crisis known as capitalism. Support Sublation Media on Pat...

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Episode 560: MAGA Communism and the NEW Anti-Imperialism

Diet Soap - a podcast - June 11, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley and Doug discuss the new Stalinist/MAGA Communist anti-imperialism. Without condemnation or presuming that the anti-imperialists are acting in bad faith, but with the aim of understanding the ideological moment we are in, this stream will take a look at some clips from videos fro...

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Episode 559: The Last Marxist weighs in on the Trump Vedict

Diet Soap - a podcast - June 07, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
This week's Cutrone Zone includes his interpretation of the Trump Verdict and how we should understand bourgeois law and the rights of the accused. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 558: Was Bakunin RIGHT? (ft Spencer Leonard and Cyberdandy)

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 31, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Douglas Lain receives a lesson on anarchism from Cyberdandy and Spencer Leonard in this special episode of Diet Soap.  Listen to the Second Half on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/anarchist-105304314 Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 557: The Teenager as a Product of Capitalism

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 28, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley and Doug discuss the history of the teenager and teenage culture before turning their attention to some current news stories regarding the #Twitterfiles and the origin of COVID 19. Join Us for a Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/parroting-105102965 Support Su...

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Episode 556: A Response to "The Alternative to Genocide" Critics

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 24, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone returns to discuss the reaction to his essay "The Alternative to Genocide" and to discuss how and why leftists are, in reality, right-wing.  BUY MARXISM AND POLITICS by Chris Cutrone https://sublationmedia.com/product/marxism-and-politics-essays-on-critical-theory-and-the...

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Episode 555: Should We Love Big Brother? (featuring Ben Burgis)

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 23, 2024 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ben Burgis and Djene Bajalan join Douglas Lain to discuss the War on Disinformation, and to resolve an argument that broke out on the Diet Soap 15 hour anniversary livestream.  Should be hope that social media companies become the fully recognized property of the state, how concerned sh...

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Episode 554: Is Western Finance to Blame?

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 17, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Fabio Vighi discusses his upcoming book "Emergency Capitalism" and explains how financial capitalism and productive capitalism can't be treated separately but must be understood as united. How the disintegration and irregulatiry in the financial sector is the result of a crisis stemming...

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Episode 553: Canada Rolls Out NEW AND IMPROVED CANCEL CULTURE

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 15, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
In this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug discuss the Canadian Online Harms Act, a new US presidential election poll, the Strange Death of American Exceptionalism, and the meaning (or lack of meaning) of the pro-Palestinian protests.  Join Us for a Second Hour in t...

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Episode 552: The Alternative to Genocide is Slavery

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 10, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone returns with an essay entitled "The Alternative to Genocide" and a challenge to socialists. Can you avoid petite-bourgeois illusion?  Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 551: The New Aufhebunga Bunga!

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 09, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Alex Hochuli joins Doug to discuss the upgraded Aufhebunga Bunga podcast, the death of the Millennial Left, and the situation in Gaza. Aufhebunga Bunga Podcast https://bungacast.com/ Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 550: Students and the Capitalist University

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley and Doug discuss generational politics, the Capitalist University, students as a revolutionary class, and the concept of regression in this week's stream.  Join Us for a Second Hour https://www.patreon.com/posts/103806222 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/d...

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Episode 549: The Left Can't Make Use of the Gaza War?

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 01, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss Benjamin Studebaker's essay for Sublation Magazine entitled "The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War" and Doug reads the opening remarks he gave at the Platypus panel "From Politics to Protest" last week. The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War...

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Episode 548: Was Adorno a Leninist?

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay "Do We Need Adorno?"  The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone's upcoming book "Marxism and Politics."  Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 547: Breadtube and Woke/Anti-Woke Politics

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 25, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Peter Coffin joins Douglas Lain to discuss his book "Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism" and the Breadtube controversy regarding plagiarism.  Peter's Book "Woke Ouroboros" on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Ouroboros-Essentialism-Peter-Coffin-ebook/dp/B0BQ3XR447 Support S...

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Episode 546: Highlights After 15 Years: Ben Burgis's Appearance and Beyond

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 24, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
In this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug will discuss the 15 hour anniversary stream that we ran last week, tell you how you can still get access to the whole stream, and go over some of the highlights from those 15 hours including the argument Doug had with Ben Bu...

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Episode 545: Blackrock's Lockdown and the Conformist Left

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Fabio Vighi joins the Malinformation channel as Sublation Media prepares to publish his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this episode Fabio critiques Slavoj Zizek's Capitalist Realism and describes how Blackrock is controlling and destroying the ...

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Episode 544: Why Your Stalinism is a Mistake

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 11, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Jack Ross, author of "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," discusses the ideas in his book with Ashley Frawley. Jack goes slowly through the history and his own influences and antecdents as he explains how he's dropped the idea that "before their can be a decent left we need a...

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Episode 543: Responding to Midwestern Marxism's Anti-Frankfurt School Rant

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain respond to Midwestern Marxism's criticisms of the Frankfurt School and discuss Briahna Joy Gray's misstatements regarding the Twitter Files. Join us for a Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/102008116 Support Us on Patreon https://patre...

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Episode 542: Why Not Trump, Again?

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 05, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone discusses the third essay in his "Why Not Trump" series in the context of a US election wherein all sides are abandoning the constitutional order. Lawfare, the power of the executive, impeachments, and a many other topics are discussed in this episode of the Cutronezone.  ...

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Episode 541: Did Late Capitalism End Already?

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Kyle Baasch is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Minnesota and the author of the essay “Too Late for ‘Late Capitalism’” for Compact Magazine. In this episode of Diet Soap we discuss how the idea of "Late Capitalism" has changed and perhaps been emptied ...

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Episode 540: Fake News, Fake Left, War, Disease, Dogs and Cats Lying Together, Hysteria

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 02, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss how postmodernism lingers on in a political form, and how the remnants of the socialist left might find its way back to politics. Topics included: David Shields' documentary, the 2024 US election and Trump, the Strange Death of the American Creed,...