Chris Cutrone discusses the Norman Finkelstein vs. Destiny debate on the Lex Fridman show. How did the framing of this debate accept the very conditions that need to be overcome as immutable and permanent. How might socialists work to overcome these conditions? Chris Cutrone continues to discuss the Finkelstein debate, but we move on to discuss Frederic Jameson, the meaning of Academic Marxism, and what it is to be “pre-canceled” on the Left as a Marxist.
Chris Cutrone with Theory Underground on Marx’s critique of bourgeois political economy
How to read Das Kapital, value-form debates, and the “Left”? Cutrone visits the Capital Mondays crew for this special episode!
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Western Maoism
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss how Maoism came to define the ideology of the American Left as the CutroneZone returns in 2024. Doug and Chris continue to discuss Maoism and its aftermath in the Parrot Room, and touch upon the “Left” on Israel-Palestine.
Chris Cutrone with Aufhebunga Bunga on The Death of the Millennial Left
Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins Aufhebunga Bunga, Philip Cunliffe, George Hoare, and Alex Hochuli, to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss: Why define it as the “Millennial” Left? Was the anti-Stalinism of leaderless protests a good thing? Did the talk of “winning” from 2015 onwards represent maturity? Should the turn to a more public, statist capitalism make us more optimistic? How will the ‘lawfare’ used against Trump play out?
Chris Cutrone and David Kunsman on The Death of the Millennial Left
Chris Cutrone on modern vs. ancient freedom and Israel-Palestine
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 lets Chris get away with murder. Chris and Doug discuss the revival of Osama bin Laden, Marxian value-theory and the state of the Left.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Palestine protests and the “Left”
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 and Doug continue to discuss the way the American Left has taken up the conflict in Israel as the centerpiece of its political project.
Chris Cutrone with Doug Lain on Hamas, Israel, the Left and socialism
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 what he calls “reformism with bombs.” Chris and Doug continue their discussion of how the Left’s understanding of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is broken.
The Death of the Millennial Left book launch author discussion at University of Chicago
On October 12th at the University of Chicago, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a book talk by Chris Cutrone on his new book The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions 2006-2022.
https://www.sublationmedia.com/books/…
The Millennial Left, facing the War on Terror, the Great Recession, the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement, and the Black Lives Matter protests, as well as the Presidencies of Obama and Trump and the political discontents expressed by Bernie Sanders, Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn, SYRIZA et al, was tasked with the struggle for socialism in the core of global capitalism. It failed to even attempt this task. In the essays collected here, spanning the Millennial generationās many agonies, Chris Cutrone cuts through the accumulated legacy of failures that the Millennials inherited from the Left of the 20th century and that blocked their view of the socialist politics needed to turn the crisis of neoliberal capitalism into a struggle to overcome capitalism. A critique of the history of the recent and current Left, the book is also a lesson in politics: the politics marking the 21st century and the absence of Marxism informing the Left as much as the Right. It is essential reading for anyone interested in a socialist politics of freedom.
Chris Cutrone is the Last Marxist. Cutrone teaches in the Departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an Instructor at the Institute for Clinical Social Work and was a longtime lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, where he completed the PhD degree in the Committee on the History of Culture and the MA in Art History. His doctoral dissertation was on Adornoās Marxism. He received the MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the BA from Hampshire College. He is also a writer and media artist committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. He is the original lead organizer and Chief Pedagogue of the Platypus Affiliated Society, an international Marxist educational project.
Chris Cutrone on The Death of the Millennial Left with Dustbowl Diatribes
Chris Cutrone discusses his book The Death of the Millennial Left on Dustbowl Diatribes with Laurie Johnson.