Chris Cutrone discusses Leszek Kolakowski’s essay “The Concept of the Left.” From the essay: “The Left — and this is its unchangeable and indispensable quality, though by no means its only one — is a movement of negation toward the existing world. For this very reason it is, as we have seen, a constructive force. It is, simply, a quest for change.”
Chris Cutrone with Theory Underground in Chicago (video and audio recordings)
Chris Cutrone and the Platypus Affiliated Society meet Theory Underground on its book tour of the United States for Underground Theory, in which Cutrone’s essay on “The negative dialectic of Marxism” is included.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Obama and Trump
Chris Cutrone looks back at the Obama years from his book The Death of the Millennial Left.
This week’s second hour of the CutroneZone includes a discussion on how we should understand Trump as a product of the Left.
Chris Cutrone and Doug Lain on Marxism as a religion
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 Marxism are something more than noble lies told to prop up what is, ultimately, an absurd existence?
Chris and Doug continue to discuss the current political moment in the Parrot Room.