Chris Cutrone of the Platypus Affiliated Society and Campaign for a socialist party and Caleb Maupin of the Center for Political Innovation in conversation with Douglas Lain of Sublation Media on the history of Marxism and its political tasks today.
Chris Cutrone with Tony of 1Dime on the Campaign for a socialist party
Chris Cutrone discusses the Campaign for a socialist party with Tony of 1Dime.
Ed Remus with Chris Cutrone on the Charlie Kirk assassination
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Ed Remus discusses his article published in Compact Magazine, “Charlie Kirk and the New Civil War” (September 23, 2025).
https://www.compactmag.com/article/charlie-kirk-and-the-new-civil-war
In the second half Parrot Room, Chris Cutrone discusses with Ed Remus the necessity of socialist independence from capitalist politics, with reference to Chris Cutrone’s tweet, “They are killing each other.”
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Adolph Reed and Moishe Postone’s compromises and the spectacle of politics
Chris Cutrone and Doug Lain discuss Cutrone’s teachers Adolph Reed and Moishe Postone’s political compromises. In the second half, they discuss capitalism and the spectacle of politics.
Chris Cutrone with Benjamin Studebaker on the Campaign for a socialist party
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Chris Cutrone discusses with Benjamin Studebaker for Political Theory 101 Cutrone’s article “Socialist unity” on the Campaign for a socialist party, published in Sublation Magazine.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory 2025 predictions and “common sense” socialism
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Chris Cutrone discusses with Doug Lain Immanuel Wallerstein’s “World Systems Theory” 1996 predictions about 2025 and how they have or have not come true. In the second half, they discuss the idea of “common sense socialism” and its relation to Marxist theory, the question of practice, and philosophy.
Chris Cutrone with Tony of 1Dime on the Campaign for a socialist party
Chris Cutrone discusses with Tony of 1Dime Radio his article “Socialist unity!” published in Sublation Magazine.
Chris Cutrone with Dillon Tori on Kant, Hegel, history, Marxism and Trump
What is philosophy? What is history? What is capitalism? What does Marxism have to say about this? What about Trump?
Sublation The Last Election film test screening discussion at NYU (audio recording)
Discussion at New York University by the producers and principal interviewers after a test screening of Sublation Media Douglas Lain’s documentary film The Last Election (2025), on the 2024 U.S. Presidential and general election through coverage of the major political party conventions and protests in Milwaukee and Chicago. Discussants include producers Chris Cutrone and Edward Remus, interviewers Benjamin Studebaker and Wyatt Verlen, and director Doug Lain.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Bonapartism, Trump and the capitalist state
Chris Cutrone explains why a socialist Left needs the Marxist as opposed to liberal conception of “Bonapartism.” In the second half, Lain and Cutrone discuss Walter Benjamin’s “The author as producer” (1934) and the relation between socialist politics and art and literature.