Chris Cutrone

Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. ( . . . )

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Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on political authoritarianism

Chris Cutrone discusses his essay from Marxism and Politics entitled “The mass psychology of capitalist politics” as well as his essay “Critical authoritarianism.” We are all living with the fear of freedom and this leads us to embrace authoritarian solutions to political and social problems. Doug discusses his old Cold War fears with Chris Cutrone as Russian ICBM missiles descend upon Ukraine.

Chris Cutrone’s Introduction to Marxism course for Theory Underground (2024)

Session 1: Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)

Session 2: Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)

Session 3: Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where Is it Going? (1936)

Session 4: Georg Lukacs and Theodor Adorno on proletarian class consciousness

Follow-up discussion: