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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,...

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Episode 539: Emergency Capitalism-Full Show from Rumble

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 29, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Fabio Vighi joins the Sublation channel as we are publishing his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this new series Fabio will help viewers keep track of the underlying economic conditions that are shaping our world in a time of emergency. Given th...

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Episode 538: The Failure of the European Left

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 28, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Arturo Desimone writings on politics and culture has appeared in CounterPunch, Compact, openDemocracy, the Fortnightly Review, and Sublation Magazine. From 2018 to 2021 he was a co-founding member of the "Peace and International Policy" a subdivision of the "Democracy in Europe Movement...

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Episode 537: Ukraine from Maidan to War

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 20, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
This interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko explores the fate of the left in Ukraine. Ishchenko was born in Ukraine in 1982. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jacobin and the New Left Review. His book "Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War" was published by Verso...

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Episode 536: A TikTok Ban & Gender Affirming Care Reconsidered

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 19, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss criticisms of the WPATH files and the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the TikTok ban).  Join us for a Second Hour in the Parrot Room on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-on-tik-tok-100665450 Supp...

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Episode 535: A Human Solution for Palestine?

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 15, 2024 00:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ron Kelch and Urszula Wislanka are members of the Marxist Humanist group News and Letters. In this episode of Diet Soap they discuss Franklin Dmitryev's essay Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression. Essay "Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression" by Franklin Dmitry...

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Episode 534: Free To Be You And Me?

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss the struggle for civil liberties after the WPATH (World Professional Association of Transgender Health) document leak. How do we defend our civil rights and civil liberties even as we address the revelations that "gender affirming care" is more da...

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Episode 533: Trump, Presidents, and the American Revolution

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the meaning of the American Revolution, Trump remaining on the ballot, the branches of government, and the meaning of socialism.  Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 532: Putin's Brain and the War in Ukraine

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 07, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Conrad Hamilton explores the anti-imperialist quasi Fascism in Dugin's thought and the history that shaped "Putin's Brain." Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap Read an Excerpt from Hamilton's Essay https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dugin-s-postmodern-denial-of-reality P...

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Episode 531: Debating Marx's Theory of History (ft Sean Sayers and Steve Paxton)

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 04, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Originally Uploaded October 21, 2021 Sean Sayers is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy from a Hegelian Marxist perspective. In April of 2020, he appeared on the Zero Books channel in order to disc...

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Episode 530: Theory Underground and Learning from Heidegger, Marx, Hegel, & Zizek

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 29, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
David McKerracher from Theory Underground describes his book "TIMEENERGY: Why You Have No Time or Energy" and discusses left philosophy with Douglas Lain Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap TIMENERGY on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/TIMENERGY-Why-Have-Time-Energy/dp/B0C...

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Episode 529: Living In the Imperialist World

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone returns for another Cutronezone, this time to explain what it means to live through the highest stage of capitalism.  Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 528: How Zizek and Columbo Can Help

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 23, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
David Shields's upcoming book "How We Got Here" explores how we've lost sight of the concept of the truth. It walks the reader through the history of Western Epistemology. This video offers up Columbo as one of remaining cultural icons that still stands for truth, even after the postmod...

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Episode 527: What does Caleb Maupin Really Think?

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 22, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
In this week's Sublation Magazine Show Doug presents a pre-recorded conversation between Ashley Frawley and Caleb Maupin. In the second hour the patrons will join the conversation to discuss what was said. Join the Second "Parrot Room" Stream On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/98...

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Episode 526: Putin vs. Biden (What Next for Ukraine?)

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 14, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Douglas Lain and Reid Kane Kotlas discuss Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin and the revelations from Special Prosecutor Rober Hur's report on Biden's classified documents scandal. The question for this channel is "how should the left think through this moment of crisis for the democ...

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Episode 525: Why Regular Workers Should Rule

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the old Marxist idea of "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat" in this episode of the Cutrone Zone. Is it a scary phrase? Can we trust everyday people to self-govern? What is socialism anyhow?  Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com...

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Episode 524: Have YOU Evolved Into Your IDEOLOGY?

Diet Soap - a podcast - January 31, 2024 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
The Reverend John Milton Bunch drops in to teach Doug a lesson in science and to demonstrate that political activists and theorists need to believe the science. Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 523: Is DAVOS Socialist?

Diet Soap - a podcast - January 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone discusses the rational kernel in Javier Milei's recent speech at DAVOS and explains how socialists should take up capitalism in order to transform it. Listen to the second hour on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/parrots-davos-97246173 Support Sublation Media on Pa...

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Episode 522: Learn the ZIZEK EQUATION that Explains FAKE NEWS

Diet Soap - a podcast - January 24, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
David Shield's is the author of the upcoming book "How We Got Here" along with dozens of other bestselling books such as "Reality Hunger" and "The Thing About Life is One Day You'll Be Dead." In this episode of Diet Soap Douglas Lain uses the Black Mirror Episode "Joan is Awful" as an e...

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Episode 521: How WOKE IDEOLOGY is replacing INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY

Diet Soap - a podcast - January 19, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Jack Ross is author of "The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History" with Nebraska Press and "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," a book that is coming soon from Sublation.  This video introduces Ross's argument that the real aim of the puritanical but progressive "wok...

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Episode 520: Understanding Western Maoism (ft. Chris Cutrone)

Diet Soap - a podcast - January 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss how Maoism came to define the ideology of the American left as the Cutronezone returns in 2024. Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 519: Critique of the Anarchist Dialectic (ft. Spencer Leonard)

Diet Soap - a podcast - January 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Spencer Leonard follows up on the recent discussion of Proudhon that featured Ben Burgis, Cyber Dandy, and Douglas Lain. What was Marx's critique of Proudhon's dialectic? What can the left still learn from Proudhon. Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap