Zero Squared

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 Su...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-26T10_58_58-07_00

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 h...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-25T10_51_48-07_00

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...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-24T10_43_00-07_00

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 Slav...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-12T16_24_06-07_00

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 antecdent...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-11T13_18_42-07_00

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 ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-09T13_57_34-07_00

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 executiv...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-05T09_03_27-07_00

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 epi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-04T09_26_02-07_00

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 Sh...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-04-02T12_15_11-07_00

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 th...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-29T06_50_24-07_00

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 membe...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-28T12_15_02-07_00

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 ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-20T09_05_51-07_00

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 Hou...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-19T14_54_10-07_00

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 stok...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-15T10_26_29-07_00

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 an...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-12T15_29_15-07_00

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 Medi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-08T14_42_37-08_00

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 fr...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-06T18_28_53-08_00

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 M...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-03-04T10_20_32-08_00

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.co...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-02-29T12_09_28-08_00

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

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-02-26T12_28_01-08_00

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 Co...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-02-23T14_15_44-08_00

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...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-02-21T17_50_53-08_00

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 questio...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-02-13T16_29_12-08_00

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 sel...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-02-09T11_40_56-08_00

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://p...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-01-31T09_41_50-08_00

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 ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-01-26T09_22_43-08_00

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 ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-01-24T11_21_29-08_00

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.  Th...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-01-19T07_59_56-08_00

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/diet...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-01-12T14_36_00-08_00

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 ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-01-08T14_31_58-08_00

James A Smith, co-host of the Popular Show, debates Douglas Lain about the Israel/Palestine conflict and the the opportunity it presents for the international left.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2024-01-01T11_40_46-08_00

Chris Cutrone walks Doug through the history of bourgeois art from Eugène Delacroix to Eduard Manet.  The Death of the Millennial Left by Chris Cutrone https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/the...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-12-22T11_08_00-08_00

Jacob Siegel is a Senior Editor at Tablet magazine, a fiction writer, and veteran. He is also a committed Zionist and critic of US policy both domestically and internationally.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-12-20T05_39_27-08_00

Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer on international politics, religion, culture, and humanism. His recent essay for Sublation Magazine explains why it is accurate to refer to Israel as a ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-12-13T10_14_50-08_00

Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the impact and importance of the Death of the Millennial left. Along the way they also discuss the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Listen to the Second Hour ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-12-09T12_05_15-08_00

Ben Burgis and Cyber Dandy join Doug for a conversation about Proudhon and Mars. What was Marx's critique of Proudhon? Why did anarchism and Marxism split? Who is the last Marxist?  Support Us ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-12-07T17_16_20-08_00

Arturo Desimone is an Aruban-Argentine writer, poet and visual artist. In this interview he explains the history of Peronism and the meaning of Javier Milei. Support Sublation Media on Patreon h...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-11-30T16_18_14-08_00

This interview with Slavoj Zizek was meant to be the moment when the channel stopped obsessing about the brutal bombings on Gaza and the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine and retu...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-11-23T10_45_40-08_00

Chris Cutrone discusses the current political moment with Douglas Lain. Topics include dialectics, the superiority of Brave New World to 1984, the Palestinian struggle, and why it is that Doug le...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-11-18T04_28_54-08_00

Chris Cutrone, author of "The Death of the Millennial Left," discusses the left's embrace of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as the new center of its political project.  Chris Cutrone's "The D...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-11-10T11_02_51-08_00

Resident Stalinist Conrad Hamilton argues that, as bad as Dugin is, he nonetheless is objectively struggling against Western Imperialism.  Conrad Hamilton will be speaking on Dugin in London at...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-11-09T07_55_09-08_00

Chris Cutrone addresses his critics and returns to the need to develop a socialist politics as opposed to a ethno-nationalist Wilsonian utopian politics in the Cutrone Zone.  Purchase Cutrone's...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-10-27T10_35_41-07_00

Artist, journalist, and political activist Arturo Desimone explains the Diem 25's discarded plan to end the occupation of Palestine.  Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/diet...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-10-25T18_18_55-07_00

Susanna Kleeman, author of the novel Twice and the upcoming Baudrillardian self-help book: Fatal Dating Tips discusses Baurdillard, Debord, terrorism and hostage taking on this week's Diet Soap p...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-10-19T08_43_27-07_00

The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the situation in Israel and Gaza, explains his own controversial understanding of what's necessary for the emancipation of the Palestinians, and discusses...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-10-13T08_21_21-07_00

Fakhry Al-Serdawi is a Palestinian writer contributing to the Palestinian publication "Arab48" and to the Lebanese publication "Al-Akhbar." In this episode of Diet Soap, Fakhry and Doug discuss h...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-10-05T09_45_18-07_00

Chris Cutrone discusses Leszek Kolakowski's essay "The Concept of the Left": From the essay: The Left--and this is its unchangeable and indispensible quality, though by no means its only one--is ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-09-29T08_23_24-07_00

Derrick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss Horkheimer's book "The Eclipse of Reason," the technocracy, and the question of the PMC in this month's edition of Pop the Left!

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-09-27T08_18_34-07_00

Chris Cutrone looks back at the Obama years as the audiobook version of his book "The Death of the Millennial Left" hits the virtual shelves at the Sublation Media website: The Death of the Mill...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-09-16T14_37_40-07_00

Susanna Kleeman, author of the novel Twice, returns to the channel to discuss Jean Baudrillard and her upcoming book Fatal Dating Tips: Pratical Advice on How to Find Real Love in an Unreal World...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-09-15T05_33_37-07_00

Nadine Strossen is a leading expert in constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights. She is the immediate past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-09-06T11_05_01-07_00

This week's Cutrone Zone takes up the claim that Marxism is a religion and Marx is the Pope. Can we demonstrate that Marx's thought and Marxsim are something more than noble lies told to prop up ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-09-01T13_20_46-07_00

In his new book "The Political Right and Equality" McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-08-30T10_48_57-07_00

Douglas Lain and Freddie deBoer discuss his new book "How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement."  They explore why left movements fail. In the digital age, social movements flare up but then l...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-08-23T08_41_11-07_00

Chris Cutrone's "Cutronezone" featuring a conversation about his 2018 essay "The future of socialism: What kind of illness is capitalism?"  School of Materialist Research Link https://schoolofm...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-08-14T13_41_14-07_00

Benjamin Studebaker's book "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut" argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly al...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-08-09T08_33_54-07_00

Robert Kurz was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist and editor of the journal Exit! He was one of Germany's most prominent theorists of value criticism. Nick Gruber joins Doug...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-08-02T14_07_15-07_00

Chris Cutrone, author of "The Death of the Millennial Left," former president of the Platypus Affiliated Society, professor of critical theory and art, continues to reign in the CUTRONEZONE. Enjo...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-07-28T15_35_06-07_00

Doug and Derick discuss Lukacs in the latest episode of Pop the Left. Can we escape reificiation? Will the left recover from the latest attempt at social democracy? Where do we go from here?  S...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-07-26T16_35_21-07_00

Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain evaluate the allegation that RFK Jr. is anti-semitic and attempt to determine why even smart people can find racist conspiracy theories to be attractive and compel...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-07-25T11_54_06-07_00

CyberDandy is a youtuber and anarchist and in this video he discusses Marcuse's Heideggerian origins, the concept of Repressive Tolerance, and how to create a radical or revolutionary subjectivit...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-07-20T13_08_32-07_00

Ben Burgis discusses his essay for Jacobin "Cornel West Should Challenge Biden in the Democratic Primaries" with Douglas Lain in this episode of Diet Soap.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-07-12T09_00_00-07_00

Radhika Desai is Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Canada, and Convenor of the International ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-07-06T11_24_46-07_00

James Smith's recent essay in Sublation Magazine "Capitalist Realism All Over Again" was very popular at Sublation Magazine. It begins with these lines: Such is the whiplash of the left’s fortu...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-07-04T09_16_46-07_00

Chris Cutrone in the CutroneZone discusses his 2012 essay "A Century of Marxism" while also covering topics such as the coming constitutional crisis, RFK Jr's jacked bod, and Biden's athleticism....

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-06-30T12_17_07-07_00

Djene Rhys Bajalan joins Doug to discuss Djene's recent essay in Compact entitled: "The Poverty of Anti-Imperialism." The discuss who is at fault for the crisis in Ukraine, the domestic consequen...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-06-29T15_44_21-07_00

James M Vaughn is a history professor at the University of Chicago, a Marxist, and the author of the essay "The bourgeois revolution(s) and the American Revolution." In this interview Vaughn expl...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-06-21T10_42_04-07_00

Chris Cutrone's first book, "The Death of the Millennial Left" is out from Sublation and available now. The pre-orders have shipped.  In this episode of the CutroneZone he discusses our contempo...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-06-14T10_27_17-07_00

Ashley and Doug discuss David Grusch's recent revelation that the US Government has been hiding downed UFOs for decades, that Apple used alien technology to create the new Vision Pro, and that Po...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-06-12T13_22_44-07_00

Jacob Siegel is a senior editor at Tablet Magazine and a freelance journalist who has published at Vice, the Daily Beast, and the co-host of the podcast Manifesto! He is the author of A Guide to ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-06-08T13_35_00-07_00

Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss how cancel culture has evolved and been taken up by the State. Ashley will explain value conflict theory and how it relates to and explains our current mom...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-06-06T10_34_15-07_00

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His recent work includes Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism (Bloomsbury 2015, with Heiko ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-05-31T14_13_04-07_00

Ralph Leonard stops by the Sublation Magazine Show to discuss his essay, "Egoism: The Basis for Communism" for Sublation Magazine. Ashley and Doug give updates on the developing story of society'...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-05-29T17_21_01-07_00

Chris Cutrone is the author of the book "The Death of the Millennial Left" which is coming out soon from Sublation Media.  In this first installment of The Cutronezone, a podcast that we hope wi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-05-25T14_34_48-07_00

Ashley Frawley interviews Spencer Leonard and discusses the meaning of Karl Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte."  Read Spencer Leonard's Book Marx and Engels on Imperialism: Se...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-05-17T18_28_50-07_00

Johannes Regell is a Swedish socialist from Västervik, a former member of the Västervik municipality council, and an author for the Platypus Affiliated Society's journal. In this episode of Die...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-05-10T18_09_58-07_00

Adrian Johnston is the author of "Zizek's Ontology" and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Chris Cutrone is the author of the upcoming Subl...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-05-04T11_45_26-07_00

Conrad Hamilton describes his essay "The Socialism of Shipwrecks" with Douglas Lain. Hamilton's essay in Sublation describes both Cameron's "Titanic" and Östlund’s "Triangle of Sadness."    ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-04-27T08_34_53-07_00

Jodi Dean is the author of the esay "Neofeudalism-The end of capitalism?" in the LA Review of Books, the essay "Same As It Ever Was?" in the New Left Review,  and “Capitalism is turning itself...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-04-21T14_37_27-07_00

Douglas Lain and Todd McGowan discuss the need to regulate or control speech during a pandemic, vaccine mandates, and the difference between State power and the power of Capital. How should we un...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-04-12T22_53_23-07_00

Marxist writer Ralph Leonard joins Ashley Frawley for a conversation about how Marx embraced the Greek myth of Prometheus. Can a socialist party emerge that would aim at realizing and transcendin...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-04-06T10_44_00-07_00

Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss how Aristotlean reason is sublated in Hegel's ontologized logic. This is a response to Chris Cutrone's appearance on the Diet Soap episode entitled "The Last ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-03-31T13_39_06-07_00

Chris Cutrone follows up with Douglas Lain on the topic of postmodernism and politics. Is there a rational kernel in the postmodern abyss? Was Foucault a Marxist? Was Heidegger a Marxist??? FInd ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-03-29T12_20_52-07_00

In this week's Diet Soap, Ashley Frawley talks to David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at the Univerity of Westminster. They talk about one of Ashley's favourite books of his, The...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-03-22T23_48_41-07_00

Spencer Leonard of the Platypus Affiliated Societ joins Doug to discuss Lenin's "State and Revolution." What would Lenin do about today's technocratic capitalism? Support Us on Patreon https://p...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-03-15T15_03_56-07_00

In this episode of Diet Soap Ashley Frawley drops in to discuss Sublation's research projects. We are tackling the question of modern subjectivity and reason this month (March, 2023) and will be ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-03-01T13_47_55-08_00

Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain start to discuss Cutrone's essay "Adorno and Freud" but, before they can really begin, they have to clear up a few issues about Lacan, Structuralism, and Heidegger....

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-02-16T09_44_49-08_00

C Derick Varn of Varnblog returns to restart the Pop the Left series. For this episode we discuss the history and ideas behind DP Costello's 1961 essay, "Voluntarism and Determinism in Bolshevist...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-02-10T11_44_30-08_00

Robert Wright of the NonZero podcast helps us to announce the release of Norman Finkelstein's new book, "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!" by appearing on the Diet Soap podcast with Norman...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-02-08T10_41_22-08_00

David Swift, author of "A Left For Itself" and "The Identity Myth" joins Douglas Lain to discuss the ways the contemporary left alienates "ordinary" working class people. They discuss cultural di...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-01-25T14_18_38-08_00

Cyberdandy, Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss the history of the sexual revolution, differences between 18th and 21st century sexual politics, and how the bureaucratic state is intervening ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-01-19T13_30_27-08_00

Conrad Hamilton responds to Chris Cutrone on this week's Diet Soap podcast. Just how should we understand fascism today? Is China fascist? Is the United States fascist?  Support Us on Patreon h...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-01-12T14_31_31-08_00

Dr. Thomas Jones joins Douglas Lain for a conversation about his essay for Sublation Magazine entitled "On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Jones has worked as a software engineer in both in...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2023-01-06T14_40_52-08_00

Stefan Bertram-Lee discusses his life story, nihilism, and his upcoming book "How to Stop Being a Teenage Nihilist." In the parrot room he talks about his illegal activism, Jesus Christ, and how ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2022-12-28T12_21_41-08_00

This episode of Critical Cuts was my birthday present to myself. You can have fun counting the number of times I try for the proper German pronunciation of "Walter Benjamin" and fail. The variety...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2022-12-23T09_28_09-08_00

Derick Varn (formerly of Pop the Left) returns to the Diet Soap podcast in order to discuss what the left needs to remember and relearn. He is now the host of Varn Vlog and has his own YouTube ch...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2022-12-21T13_33_55-08_00

John Bunch joins Douglas Lain in order to debate the limits the left doesn't want to face. While leftist believe in human subjectivity and freedom, he does not. Instead Bunch believes we are most...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2022-12-16T18_41_27-08_00

Douglas Lain and Cyber Dandy discuss the differences between Marxism and Anarchism starting with Bakunin and Marx and moving forward. The second half of this conversation is available for patreon...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2022-12-07T13_51_29-08_00

Freddie deBoer and Douglas Lain discuss Freddie's recent essay "The Left's Vapid Anti-Musk Discourse" in this week's Diet Soap podcast.  In his essay deBoer writes, "The amount of attention Musk...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2022-11-30T12_11_37-08_00

 Paul Cockshott is a Scottish computer scientist, Marxian economist, and a reader at the University of Glasgow. Since 1993 he has authored multiple works in the tradition of scientific socialism...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2022-11-23T12_30_44-08_00